The impact of anthropology on the studies of history of religions in Turkey

In the Republican period, the religious history and culture of the Turks attracted a lot of attention both from the field of the history of religions and from those working outside this field. This study is a qualitative study model and it is a research for content analysis. In this period which ethnographic data intensively were used to what extent understanding of the impact upon the perspective of anthropology on the Turkish studies in history of religions was aimed. This study is a macro study model and a descriptive research. During the Republican period, the religious, the history and the culture of Turks were attracted much attention both in the field of the history of religions and other fields. Particularly, some searches were made by taking into the centre the religious experiences of Turks before becoming Muslims and some different comments were mentioned about this issue. An intensive anthropological and archaeological studies were obtained and was aimed to the relation of past in Anatolian land and consequently the studies of history of religion sometimes were improved toward to the idea of construction of the nation. Becoming scientific discipline of the history of religions in Turkey importantly were made progress by Hikmet Tanyu's studies which made focus point in Turkish culture. The searches in the field of Turks' religious history after Tanyu were continued and also tended toward general topics of the history of religion. In this study, some objections were expressed and some suggestion were presented in the issue of method and technic of research of the history of religion studies where inside Theology.