ORTADOĞU'DA DİN OLGUSUNUN ASİMETRİK İZDÜŞÜMLERİ

Yıl 2023, Cilt: 14 Sayı: 2, 1 - 19, 19.08.2023

Ahmed Hamza Alpay

Öz

Sosyolojik analizde Tanrı'nın aşkınlığı insana özgü bir içkinlikle anlam kazanmaktadır. Gerçekliğin kendisi -hakikatin yasalarını- duyum ve anlamlar yoluyla insanın varoluşunda güvenilir kılmaktadır. Din; gerçekliğin bilincinden farklı inanç nesnesinde, toplumsal hayatın zihin durumuna ilişkin ayırt edici temel aksiyomları –şüphecilik üzerinden değil- fenomenolojik olarak sunmaktadır. Bir dinin, gerçekliğin doğasıyla ilgili bilişsel pratiklerinin özü, insanın varoluş alanının tasavvurudur. Özne ve nesne arasındaki diyalektik süreç gerçeklik düzleminde devam ettiği müddetçe, dinin içsel ve dışsal yansımaları tarihin hafızasında yer tutmaya devam edecektir. Kavramların anlamlı kılınması -soyut mantıksal statü değil- verili durumlarda- insanların davranışına yön veren dinsel ideolojilerin betimlemeleri olmasıdır. Dinsel deneyim, inananların yaşadığı dünyada; kültürel boşlukları kapatan, insanın sağduyu dünyasındaki özgün değişim kavrayışlarını ritüelleştiren sembolik eylemlerdir. Dinsel semboller; bilişsel açıdan kimlik ve doğruluk kazandığı alana, belirli bir dinin antropolojik kavrayışına ve tarihsel karakterine tanım getirme çabasının ögeleridir. İnanç; son tahlilde, hiçbir ihtirasın sarsamayacağı iç huzuru, bireyin içindeki denetlenemez ahlakçılığın taleplerini, özel bir samimiyet dininin hakikat alanını belirlemektedir. Makalemde –din olgusunun gerçekliğinden hareketle- Ortadoğu coğrafyasının tarihsel ve kültürel zenginliğine vurgu yapılarak, siyasal aktörlerin bölgesel güç mücadelesinde, toplumsal paradigmayı etkileyen dinsel yönelim ve unsurların etkisi incelenecektir.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Din, Gerçeklik, Kültür, Ortadoğu, Semantik, Religion, Middle East

ASYMMETRIC PROJECTIONS OF THE PHENOMENON OF RELIGION IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Öz

In sociological analysis, God's transcendence gains meaning with a human-specific intuition. Reality itself makes the laws of truth reliable in human existence through sensations and meanings. Religion, not through skepticism, presents the distinctive basic axioms about the state of mind of social life phenomenologically in the object of belief different from the consciousness of reality. The envisioning of human existence is the core of a religion's cognitive practices regarding the nature of reality. As long as the dialectical process between the subject and the object continues at the level of reality, the internal and external reflections of religion will continue to take place in the memory of history. Making concepts meaningful is not abstract logical status in given situations, but rather the representations of religious ideologies that guide people's behavior. Religious experience is symbolic actions that ritualize people's original conceptions of change in the common sense world and close cultural gaps in the world where believers live. Religious symbols are the elements of an effort to define the anthropological understanding and historical character of a particular religion, the area in which it gains cognitive identity and accuracy. In the final analysis, faith determines the demands of uncontrollable moralism within the individual, the truth field of a special religion of sincerity, and the inner peace that no passion can shake. In my article, by emphasizing the historical and cultural richness of the Middle East geography, the effect of religious orientations and elements that affect the social paradigm in the regional power struggle of political actors will be examined based on the reality of the phenomenon of religion.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Religion, Reality, Culture, Middle East, Semantic

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