The Responses of Turkish Islam to COVID-19 Pandemic: Health and Salvation
The purpose of this study is to analyze the discourse and the policies of the official religion, Islam, in Turkey about the pandemic. Understanding the attempt to explain and interpret the virus in the eyes of the Muslims, and the process followed by that discourse throughout the pandemic are the fo...
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| description | The purpose of this study is to analyze the discourse and the policies of the official religion, Islam, in Turkey about the pandemic. Understanding the attempt to explain and interpret the virus in the eyes of the Muslims, and the process followed by that discourse throughout the pandemic are the focus points of this study. There has been intense cooperation between religion and politics in Turkey in terms of the policies regarding the recent pandemic in the country; the official Turkish Islam has a great function in legalizing the decisions of the government by refering to religious sources and provide continuance of the indivuduals’ belonging with DİYANET. It is observed that “Islamic plague culture” and the previous experiences about similar disasters have been taken as references throughout the pandemic. In this respect, this study aims to define the pandemic through the eyes of the official Islam in Turkey, to locate the individual and define his/her elbow room, and to analyze the reorganized daily life and new dimensions of the reconstructed conscious based on new fatwa with a “qualitative descriptive” method. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-0cc27ecc87124a598d2ceb4cfa9dc20e2025-01-03T01:16:56ZengSelcuk University PressSelçuk Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi2667-47502021-10-014633934910.52642/susbed.922658154The Responses of Turkish Islam to COVID-19 Pandemic: Health and SalvationDeniz Aşkın0BİTLİS EREN ÜNİVERSİTESİThe purpose of this study is to analyze the discourse and the policies of the official religion, Islam, in Turkey about the pandemic. Understanding the attempt to explain and interpret the virus in the eyes of the Muslims, and the process followed by that discourse throughout the pandemic are the focus points of this study. There has been intense cooperation between religion and politics in Turkey in terms of the policies regarding the recent pandemic in the country; the official Turkish Islam has a great function in legalizing the decisions of the government by refering to religious sources and provide continuance of the indivuduals’ belonging with DİYANET. It is observed that “Islamic plague culture” and the previous experiences about similar disasters have been taken as references throughout the pandemic. In this respect, this study aims to define the pandemic through the eyes of the official Islam in Turkey, to locate the individual and define his/her elbow room, and to analyze the reorganized daily life and new dimensions of the reconstructed conscious based on new fatwa with a “qualitative descriptive” method.https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/1719986covid-19turkish islamislamic plague culturedi̇yanetsociology of religioncovid-19türk islamıi̇slam kültürüpandemi kültürü |
| spellingShingle | Deniz Aşkın The Responses of Turkish Islam to COVID-19 Pandemic: Health and Salvation Selçuk Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi covid-19 turkish islam islamic plague culture di̇yanet sociology of religion covid-19 türk islamı i̇slam kültürü pandemi kültürü |
| title | The Responses of Turkish Islam to COVID-19 Pandemic: Health and Salvation |
| title_full | The Responses of Turkish Islam to COVID-19 Pandemic: Health and Salvation |
| title_fullStr | The Responses of Turkish Islam to COVID-19 Pandemic: Health and Salvation |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Responses of Turkish Islam to COVID-19 Pandemic: Health and Salvation |
| title_short | The Responses of Turkish Islam to COVID-19 Pandemic: Health and Salvation |
| title_sort | responses of turkish islam to covid 19 pandemic health and salvation |
| topic | covid-19 turkish islam islamic plague culture di̇yanet sociology of religion covid-19 türk islamı i̇slam kültürü pandemi kültürü |
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