Religion and society relations in Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar's story of the novel

Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar is an intellectual who thinks about the future of the society through writing about our society?s common subconscious, understanding of civilization, religious life, political turmoils, national factors, and social upheavals of his time.As we display in our study, Tanpınar deals with the changing face of the religion, which is simultenous with the change of the society. And he establishes this idea with the examples from life.Tanpınar who gives examples and subjects about religion tells the religion which takes its meaning from the society and makes the society meaningful. `Religion will exist alongside with the society? is one of his main themes of his Works. He clearly implies the depth of the spirituality mingled to the Islamic Religion by the Turkish society and to our religious life by the languge of the religion which differs according to the societies.Key Words:PublicCivilizaionReligionChangingLife