A Sociological Evaluation of the Co-Existence Discourses of the Khutbahs Given in Turkish Mosques: The Case of Adana
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2017
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SELCUK UNIV, FAC LETTERS
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Mosques are important places in the daily lives of Muslims. In mosques, khutbahs, which are prepared by Presidency of Religious Affairs or Provincial Offices of Mufti, are given during the Jumuah and Eid prayers. Khutbahs aim at indoctrinating Muslims about political, social and the other issues that constitute the Muslims' agenda besides the subjects like worship and morality. These agendas consist of some problems such as epidemic, war, discrimination, genocide, migration, urbanization, crime, hunger and drought, which have been experienced in today's societies and which cause social and political transformations. These events are important in terms of both influencing the majority of World's population and generally occurring in the areas where Muslims have been intensively living. Moreover, issues like living together, respect for diversity, etc. have been moved to the agenda of the social sciences. In this study, re-production of the co-existence culture of Islam through the khutbahs will be analysed and discourse analyses of khutbahs will sociologically be evaluated. Within this context, sociological analysis of the "co-existence" discourse given in khutbahs during Jumuah and Eid prayers will be made. In addition, discourse analyses of the khutbahs themed "living together", "respect for diversity" will be discussed in the exemplification of some social and political events. For that purpose, 87 khutbahs given in Jumuah and Eid prayers between the years of 2013 and 2015 will be examined. In line with the issues such as the Syrian issue, Syrian asylum-seekers, terror and ethnic conflicts which these khutbahs deal with, the discourses that construct the culture of living together in the khutbahs will be questioned.
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Presidency of Religious Affairs, khutbah, co-existence, Syrians, issue of Syria
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SELCUK UNIVERSITESI EDEBIYAT FAKULTESI DERGISI-SELCUK UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF FACULTY OF LETTERS
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38
