Religious and Social Impacts in Turkey During the Coronavirus Pandemic

• Main Author: Muhammed Yamaç
• Format: Article
• Language: Arabic
• Published: Eskişehir Osmangazi University 2021-03-01
• Series: Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi
• Subjects: sociology of religion,; society,; religion,; coronavirus epidemic,; turkey.; din sosyolojisi,; toplum,; din,; koronavirüs salgını,; türkiye.
• Online Access: https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/esoguifd/issue/60709/830551

oronavirus, which has become a global epidemic, has and continues to affect entire societies on a global scale in a multidimensional way. After the first case detected in Turkey on March 11, 2020, a number of restrictive measures were implemented to reduce human movement, such as the practice of quarantine in social and public spaces, in order to reduce or eliminate the impact of the epidemic. In this context, health, economy, education, religion, family, business, politics, etc., it has led to significant permanent or temporary changes, transformations and developments in many Social Space. In this framework, it is very important to analyze the changes, transformations and developments arising in social life, religious life and practices and in the service areas of the Presidency of Religious Affairs (PRA) in the context of the coronavirus epidemic. In addition, as an extraordinary situation, due to the extremely shocking, destructive and socio-traumatic multidimensional impact of the epidemic crisis, people have engaged in a number of searches for religious meaning. All this makes it necessary to conduct such research aimed at addressing society, religion, religious life and PRA in Turkey in the context of coronavirus in the field of sociology of religion. The study is a qualitative research and is based on the analysis of the findings with a sociological perspective within the framework of the text scanning method.