Dinsel Bireycilik Tehdit mi Fırsat mı
Articles > Review · 2010
Authors: Mehmet Süheyl ÜNAL
Dini Araştırmalar Dergisi, Other Refereed National Journals, National, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM), 2010, vol 13, pp 5-18
Summary
<p>Religious individualism is seen as a yield of modernity in the sociology of religion. This phenomenon which must be seen apart from radical individualism places both individual preferences and religion in the center of actions of an individual. “Religious individuals” refer not to institutional religion, but to their own states of consciousness about how they should act in their socio-religious lives. So this situation means a danger for the plausibility structure of the communal (gemeinschaftliche) institutions in modern era. This article will discuss social aspects of both gaining and missing of the religious individualism.<br></p>