Ahmet OEzalp

Essays on Religion Ahmet OEzalp

The main concern of this study is the analysis of the blend of ideas on religion. However, this study attempts to present essays on religion rather than examining with intense scientific concern. Religious fact shapes every society's daily life from the beginning of human history. Religion contains many issues worth studying, which have the function of mobilizing societies and ensuring social balance. The destructive and constructive effects of religion on social life were analyzed by many social scientists with its opponents or supporters that focused on functions. The religious actions pushed many founding sociologists to investigate that branch. At the end of the medieval age, existing questionings deepened more. Accordingly, the opportunities increased to examine the origin of religion in research on tribal communities by modern science. This study aims to establish only an idea experiment rather than providing such an in-depth analysis. In this way, it may also pioneer the efforts to study this issue. It was not needed to examine the essays under specific systematic titles.