Religiousness and religious education in the society of security: A genealogical analysis

SULEYMAN GUMUS This study aims to analyze the historical a priori of religious literacy as the modality of religiousness of the modern world. The modes of religiousness are the general representation of the religious subject built by the practices of religious education. But in order to explain the nature of the religious subject for a given period, the nature of the historical subject must be explained. If they have a tradition and a modern, unaccommodable distinction, the religious modalities of these two worlds must have other structural features. At the same time, as far as the terms tradition and modernity indirect from singular will, the modalities of religiosity should be determined by universal codes beyond the singular differences. The explanation of religiosity will be superficial without the structural manifestations of human historicity such as consciousness of living, law, publicity, city, language, labor. The study aims to analyze the religious subject of religious education practices in the society of security. The society of security is the semi-theoretical output of Foucault's archaeological and genealogical methods, and the nature of the manifestation of modern society in terms of the conditions of historical possibility. Security society regulated the awareness of the facts about life through the truths supplied by various discourses, especially biology; the macro-physics of human being through the organization of labor, publicity and law; space of thought with the poetics of language. It produced historical a priori of individualization with codes related to these spaces. In particular, as the body and language come together in the city, it manages the individualization process just as in Plato's khôra. The practices of religious education, so far from providing the existential nature of individualization in the security society, product the appearance of a superficial form. The study consists of four parts. In the first chapter, archeology and genealogy are explained; In the second chapter, the society classifications of Foucault are given; in the third chapter, the traditional religious is classified under three titles; In the fourth chapter, the historical conditions of religious literacy were discussed.