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How can religion be defined in terms of the reason for existence?

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2023
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Since the phenomenon of religion is a fundamental uncertainty in terms of both things and society, it expresses a complex whole that has not been consumed with many things in human life throughout history. Therefore, it does not seem like an easy task to make a general and comprehensive definition of religion. Because the phenomenon of religion has many dimensions, especially existential, social, psychological, experiential, moral, eschatological, doctrinal and mystical. The phenomenon of religion, in addition to these dimensions, offers a metaphysical explanation about the meaning of its existence and the existence that it experiences, and that life and creation exist for a purpose, and this purpose includes a purpose for which this purpose will come. The existence of this multidimensional structure makes it necessary to benefit from a multidimensional and interdisciplinary perspective in the definitions of religion. While defining any entity, it should include the reasons for existence. Therefore, whatever the approach taken as the basis for clustering the phenomenon of religion, the limits of the reason for existence, the intensities of its aims, are important in terms of the consequences of the emergence of the meaning that religion expresses in its essence. It is obvious that religion has a functional and dynamic structure that is found in various elements that give meaning to people's lives, respond to the difficulties in the heaters, provide an explanation for the existential dwellings that individuals have difficulty in coping with, and at the same time provide social order. Therefore fix the preferred method in the preservation of religion. On the contrary, the effect of the multiplicity of needs may not be understood, the methods and results are many, each period needs reinterpretation and re-understanding. For this reason, it is necessary to rethink every period with a perspective that takes into account the formation of religion in history and society, the essence, meaning and purpose of religion, rather than a religious understanding that has been reduced to certain rules and formal forms.

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Sümeyye Karagöz

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Sümeyye Karagöz (Master Thesis). How can religion be defined in terms of the reason for existence?, 2023, Ankara Social Science University.

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