Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices

This article scrutinizes a little-known venture in Turkish republican intellectual history, namely Turkish neo-spiritualism. Combining the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Western trend of modern spiritualism with its local dynamics and sociocultural structures, Turkish neo-spiritualism integrated the spir…

• KUTLUĞHAN SOYUBOL

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• AHMET FURKAN TOSYALI

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• CHRYSI SIDIROPOULOU

Today, there is an increase of the interest in the paranormal beliefs and practices.This increase is associated with the search for a new identity in postmodern area.In this paper we associated with the concept of re-enchantment of the world this new identity in postmodern area.Besides we pointed out that the search f…

The article discusses the continuing relevance of Huxley's dystopic novel in a contemporary, post‐political context in which a passive nihilist version of “happiness” is elevated to the level of a political and ethical ideal and “freedom” is taken for granted. Significantly, although Huxley's target was Stalinism when…

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• MUSTAFA ARSLAN

This article is a response to Robert Bernasconi’s critical philosophy of race. I start by speaking of the specific style in which life and philosophy are related in his work. I argue that he devises a political phenomenology which considers the lived experiences of racialization and inquires into their historical cond…

• ZEYNEP DİREK

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• ENGİN ŞENEL

The purpose of this study was to investigate pre-service teachers’ attitudes towards paranormal beliefs. In this study whether preservice teachers’ attitudes towards paranormal beliefs changed in terms of their programme and gender was examined. The data was collected during the fall semester of the 2010-2011 academic…

Erman Kaplama explores the principle of transition (Übergang) from metaphysics to physics developed by Kant in his unfinished magnum opus, Opus Postumum. Drawing on the Heraclitean logos and Kant’s notions of sense-intuition (Anschauung) and reflective judgment, Kaplama interprets transition as an aesthetic principle.…

Alevi inancı, ocak ve dedelik kurumlarının varlığıyla meşru zeminini oluşturmaktadır. Cemler, Alevi inancının temel eylem mekanizmasını meydana getirirken, kurban ise söz konusu ritüellerin işletim sistemi olarak görülmektedir. Kurban ister kanlı ister kansız olsun, cemin merkezinde yer almaktadır. Çalışmanın temel hi…

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• DUYGU AYAR