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The Origins of Religious Perception and Its Change in Turkey: A Factual and Conceptional Study Through the Example of Cumhuriyet Newspaper

The religious perception and its change is a field that has root in the past but still continues to be effective, both independently and in association in the field of social sciences. Due to its dynamic structure, it is a field of study that can only provide a complete integrity with reference to the past and its current state will be incomplete without knowing the past. Periodicals such as newspapers are the most important primary sources we have in order to determine the role of religion on individuals and society, religious discourses and the change in these discourses in the past. The reason why this study is focused on this period of Cumhuriyet Newspaper is that it reflects the intellectual structure of those who hold the adminisrative power, offers a collective perspective as a spokesperson of the new regime and covers the most important social and political events with religious references in the history of the Republic of Turkey like abolition of the caliphate, the uniformity of education, abolition of şer’iye and waqfs, the issue of Turkish worship, rebellions with religious discourse. In this study, the perception and change of religion is examined in the context of a newspaper both at the social and individual level. In addition to the ideological discourse of the newspaper, the contribution of its content made it easier to understand this individual perception and its change.