Lessening Impact of Religion on Turkish Muslim Identity in Westernizing and Modernizing Turkey  

作　　者：Ali Yigit 

机构地区：[1]Fatih University, Istanbul, Turkey [2] Kirklareli University, Kirklareli, Turkey

出　　处：《US-China Foreign Language》2012年第1期899-907,共9页美中外语（英文版）

摘　　要：Turks have had a strong connection to Islam religion for a long time. After the eighth century when they began to accept Islam, their relations with Islam and Islamic communities increased more and more depending on the expanding geographies of the Turkish states. Anatolia, now called Turkey, harbours many different religions although the dominant one is Islam. Besides such factors as traditions, customs, and language, religion has also a great influence on shaping one＇s or a community＇s identity. Although religion was an important part of Turkish identity, it began to lose its effectiveness especially after the foundation of Turkish Republic. Due to the Westernization and modernization movements in this term, Islamic traditions and principles began to lose their dominance on people across the country. The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the changing Turkish Muslim identity in a secularizing environment beginning with the 20th century, and to show how the technological and scientific changes in Europe influenced the core of Turkish Muslim identity.

关 键 词：Turkish identity ISLAM modernization WESTERNIZATION identity crisis 

分 类 号：B968[哲学宗教—宗教学] B91