The relationship between adults' religious education they received and their levels of religiosity (ISMEK example)

In this study, the relationship between Individuals' piety levels with religious education they received are examined. In this context, ISMEK that is composed of individuals who have different socio-economic and socio-cultural backgrounds, was chosen as the universe of the study. The research is consists of four parts. In the introduction part, the problem, purpose, importance, assumption and limitations of the research are examined and information is given about the studies on ISMEK. In the first section, document scanning is done within the conceptual and theoretical framework of the subject. By emphasizing on education, teaching, formal and informal education, formal and widespread religious education, religion, piety concepts, it is tried to form the ground of the study. Also, It is informed about ISMEK. In the second section, It is focused on the methodology of the study. In the third section, after entering data to the SPSS program, the analysis is given. In the fourth section, the results obtained after the analyzes are evaluated by interpreting under three headings. The conclusion part is formed according to the analysis results of the study. At the end of the research, it was determined that the family and Quran courses have a much more active than sources of religious education. Secondly, It was observed that there are no significant differences statistically between the demographic variables and the level of religiosity. Thirdly, the analyzes were done to determine the relationship between piety levels with religious education sources. From these variables, in addition to the variable of the place where religious education is taken at the most effective level , a significant relationship was determined between piety levels of participants and being mandatory of DKAB course, the presence of elective religion lesson in public schools, content and application sizes of this course and religious education in MEB or DIB in pre-school period variables. In addition, It was observed that there is a direct correlation between the piety level and subjective perception of religiousness and the level of knowledge required for worship.