Popular Turkish Religiosity in the Frame of Visitng Phenomenon
ZİYARET FENOMENİ BAĞLAMINDA TÜRK POPÜLER DİNDARLIĞI

Author : -Muammer AK
Number of pages : 264-279

Abstract

In the broadest sense, then, ziyaret (visitng) is avoluntary movement for the purpose of paying respect, implicitly to a person or a shrine whose authority is thereby acknowledged. Therefore, visitng phenomenon is necessary elements of traditonal Turkish religious and a sociocultural life. The essental aim of the visitng phenomenon is to reach sacred and to experience it. The visitng phenomenon is also crucial as it unites with the religion, social and cultural organisms of the society it belongs to. Except this belief and its behaviours and also near the people’s pscychology, enviroment factor, social and economical possibilites effects, it is possible to see theTurkish belief and Turkish Culture before the terms of Islam. Our previous belief culture was God Belief and the some strong souls. The understanding of wanted a help from these strong soul, transformed toMoslom Saint Culture and Islam colour. This situaton seems as a reflecton of people’s religious and their believes with a mixed culture of Islam motf which people’s visitng phenomen of a different shape of TurkishMuslom. In this researche is done by phenomenogical method and the visit subject consttutes an important part of in our people’s religious life has been studied with scientfc methodof sociology of religion.

Keywords

Sacred, Hierophany, Visitng phenomenon, Shrine,Saint, Culture, Folk religion.

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