RT Article T1 Türk Din Sosyolojisinde Batı Eksenli Sosyoloji Geleneğinin Yönlendirici Etkisi JF Dinî araştırmalar VO 13 IS 36 SP 21 OP 30 A1 Taş, Kemalettin LA Turkish PB DergiPark Akademik YR 2010 UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1801319987 AB In our country, appearance and improvement process of both sociology and its sub-discipline sociology of religion has highly occurred within the framework of concepts, theories and methods that were produced in the world of Western science. Therefore, the most important characteristic of the Turkish sociology of religion is being determined in the point of making a research through “compilation”, “quotation”, “counterfeit” rather than production of knowledge which is peculiar to its own social and religious reality. But, the social reality and religious field which Western societies and Turkish society based on are inherently different from each other. Accordingly, description of all aspects of religious phenomena which have a social character in our country by the Western sociological theories of religion are not expected. Which is need to be done is, without excluding the universal knowledge, to try to construct the theories which will help us to explain and understand our own religious and social life K1 Sociology K1 sociology of religion K1 The West K1 Turkish Society