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Prof. Dr. İhsan Çapcıoğlu ihsancapcioglu@yahoo.com Abstract Researches of sociology of religion in Turkey started with the translation of basic sociology of religion works and with articles and books of Prince Sabahaddin, Ziya Gökalp, Mehmet İzzet Salahaddin Asım, Necmeddin Sadak, and Hilmi Ziya Ülken. Until the mid-20th century, the course of sociology of religion continued with compiled and translated articles, several works of sociology of religion, and short chapters assigned to religion in sociological works. In 1949, when the chair of Sociology of Religion was established at the Faculty of Theology at Ankara University, the process of academic institutionalization was also started. [...]

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Selman Yılmaz selyilmaz@ankara.edu.tr Abstract Throughout history, both politics and religion have been seeking to influence and even dominate each other. Turkey is no exception to this rule. Since the Turkish people converted to Islam in the eighth century, Islam has had a strong influence on Turkish politics. After the establishment of modern Turkey in the 1920s, the new rules gradually eradicated Islam from public life. Yet even in this process, Islam was exploited in order to shape and consolidate a new national and secular Turkish identity. When the country passed to multi-party democracy in the late 1940s, Islam [...]