From tawafuq to coincidence, renounciation of five daily prayers: Experiences of abandoning religion and secularisation processes of religious men

This study focuses on the everyday life routines and secularization processes of males who were raised in Muslim families and communities, engaged in religious activities for several years, but later gave up their religious way of life. The study, which includes in-depth interviews with 25 male participants, intends to shed light on the rhythms and rituals of religious habitus by taking into account both Henri Lefebvre's rhythmanalysis approach and Pierre Bourdieu's habitus notion. As it is well known, pious people place a high value on their religious beliefs on their daily lives. According to Islam, an individual's life is divided into certain times. This is made by dividing the day into five parts according to the prayer times, "dawn, noon, mid-afternoon, sunset and night prayers." Certain days of the week and some periods of the year are more precious than others. Those who grew up in a religious setting are accustomed with this divided time through both daily religious routines in the home and their social life. This study discusses the secularization processes of former religious men abandoned their religious lifestyle through their changing rhythms, routines and habitus with the conceptual attempts such as polirhythmic secularization and arrhythmic secularization and aims to bring a rhythmanalytic approach to the debates on secularization and desecularization that have become more diverse in Turkey with the 2000s. Briefly, the study aims to demonstrate what practices the great transformations caused by ordinary encounters reveal in terms of secularization by focusing on the ordinariness of daily life. Briefly, the study aims to demonstrate the practices in terms of the huge alterations of secularization caused by ordinary encounters by focusing on the banality of daily life.