Din ve Felsefe Araştırmaları

Yazarlar: Nurullah ALTAŞ, Celal BÜYÜK

Konular:Din Bilimi

Anahtar Kelimeler:Education,Religious Education,Philosophy of Religion,Faculty of Theology,Education Programme

Özet: Today, in the light of revelation, reason and science, it is an undeniable fact that there is a need for restructuring to put forward the dynamic aspect of Islam. The Faculties of Divinity / Faculty of Islamic Sciences, which are considered as a religious institution that is expected to strive for this to happen, need an understanding and competence to read the age. Individually, human beings are confronted with fundamental existential questions since they begin to recognize themselves. The answers and interpretations of the religion in this regard must be given from a different perspective and appropriately in the family at home and in the school by the teacher. As it is known, the student is faced with the most basic debates and answers on those issues philosophy of religion courses. The course aims to make efforts to educate students who can think critically, produce knowledge, use them functionally in their life, solve problems, realize their responsibilities and be compatible with the environment. On the other hand the objectives of the new religious education program in Turkey  are educate students whose features are questioning, capable of choice, open to new information, researching the religious sources and review the scientific data, abiding faith. Religious education, while trying to help students to make sense of life, also guides them through rational principles of their communication with Ultimate Being. In this respect, it can be said that the aims of philosophy of religion course taught in the Faculties of Theology coincide with the aims of the religious education course. In this study, firstly the function and necessity of the philosophy of religion courses , its relationship with religious education will be discussed, and then it will be questioned whether the teaching of philosophy of religion has a contribution to the program of the institutions providing religious education at the university level. Again, the answer to the question of what kind of contributions the graduates of higher religious education have to their professional life will be sought.     

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