CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY

FACULTY OF DIVINITY

DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION SCIENCES

SOCRATES II – ERASMUS

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Head of Department

Prof. Dr. Kerim YAVUZ

 Phone: (+ 90‑322) 338 69 72 

E-mail: kyavuz@.cu.edu.tr.

SOCRATES / ERASMUS-ECTS Coordinator

                                                                                         Prof. Dr. Kerim YAVUZ

                                                                                  E-mail: kyavuz@.cu.edu.tr. 

Address

Cukurova University

Faculty of Divinity

Department of Pilosophy And Religion Sciences

01330 Balcali - Adana-Turkey

                                        Phone  : (+ 90‑322) 338 69 72

                                        Fax      : (+ 90‑322) 338 72 17

CONTENTS

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3.    Academic Staff                                                                  3

4.    Graduate Courses                                                              3

5.    Course Descriptions                                                          5                                                      

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION SCIENCES GRADUATE PROGRAM

        ACADEMIC STAFF                                                  E-MAIL ADDRESSES

Prof. Dr. Kerim YAVUZ                                               kyavuz@cu.edu.tr     

Associate Prof. Zeki Salih ZENGİN                               zsalih@cu.edu.tr       

Associate Prof. Hasan KAYIKLIK                               hkayiklik@cu.edu.tr      

Assistant Prof. Kadir ALBAYRAK                               kalbayrak@cu.edu.tr

Assistant Prof. Nebahat GÖÇERİ                                  ngöçeri@cu.edu.tr    

Assistant Prof. Abdullah ALPEREN                               aalperen@cu.edu.tr  

Assistant Prof. Asım YAPICI                                         asimyapici@cu.edu.tr

In each semester, 3 cours are compulsory

Rest of the courses are elective

Each course is 3 hrs per week

Course are taken in two semesters

Course Title:Religion from Point of View of The Psychological Schools

Course No : FDB 721

Semester : First Year, Semester I (Autumn)

Course Type: Lecture

Hours/Week: 3  (Theory)

 Number of ECTS Credits:

Course Despition: The position of the Psychology of Religion between the psychology and religious science and the the Psychology of Religion, the individual differences psychology from the point of view of the religious, the religious developmental of psychology psychology, the experimental Psychology of Religion, practicals psychology, the individual the Psychology of Religion, the pedagogical Psychology of Religion, the psychoanalysis , the psychoteraphical and the psychopatological the Psychology of Religion will be examinated from the point of view of the schools like the general psychology, the  psychology, the developmental psychology (childhood, youth, old age), the experimental psychology, the social psychology, the individual psychology, the educational psychology, psychoanalysis, the cultural psychology, the nations psychology, the art psychology, the mental psychology.

Instructor: Prof. Dr. Kerim YAVUZ

Examination: Written mid-tern and final exams

Text Book:Yavuz Kerim Psikanalizde İlk Dini gelişmelerin Değeri, Ata.Üni. Yay., Erzurum 1987., Schmidt, Wilhelm: Die verschiedenen Typen religiöser Erfahrung und die Pychologie, Verlang von L. Bertelsmann,Gütersloh 1980., Din Psikolojisinin Araştırma Alanları, A.Ü.İslami Bilim Fak. Yay. Erzurum 1982.

Course Title: The Relation of Human and Religion with Confidence

Course No : FDB 723

Semester : First Year, Semester I (Autumn)

Course Type: Lecture

Hours/Week: 3  (Theory)

 Number of ECTS Credits:

Course Despition:The confidental problem and lack of confidence nowadays, the relation of life with confidence, the reasons of the lack of confidence, the needs of human to confidence and his relation with confidence at the daily life, the necessary of confidence in the human life, the relation of religion with confidence, the terminological aproaches, the value of confidence in religion, the aproach of Islam to human and confidence, the close relation between the confidence and belief, the being identical of the belief and confidence, the position of confidence in religious belief, the confidence comprehension of human in belief in Allah, Allah as origin of confidence for the believer, the confidence giving by the religion in the individual and social life.

Instructor: Prof. Dr. Kerim YAVUZ

Examination: Written mid-tern and final exams

Text Book:Izutsu, T.: Kuran’da Allah ve İnsan, (çev. S.Ateş), A.Ü.İ.F.Yy., Ankara, 1975., Gruehn,w.: Frömmigkeit der Gegenwart, Fr. Bahn Ver, lag, Konstanz 1980., Chittick W.C./Murata S:İslam’ın Vizyonu, İnsan Yay., İstanbul. 2000., Heiler,Fr.: Das Gebet, E.Reinhardt Verlag, München/Basel 1969.

Course Title: The Islamic Educational History at the First Periods

Course No : FDB 763

Semester: First Year, Semester I (Autumn)

Course Type: Lecture

Hours/Week: 3  (Theory)

 Number of ECTS Credits:

Course Despition:The Islamic aproach to the educational events. The species and value of the knowledge according to İslamic meaning. The educational application and associations at the first years of the Islam, Suffa, Küttab and the small mosque. The scientific activities in the Islamic World to age of V (of the Hegira), Beytü’l-Hikme, the development at the religious, natural and social sciences, to grow up the scientists, their works and studies, the comparison of the scientific studies with the West and the dimensions of the interaction, the rules of the Islamic education. The growing up the educationalists in the Islamic World and their opinion on education. The establishment first madrasas and development, the reasons of the establishment of madrasas, curriculums, the scientific and managerial constructions, to become a specialist on the education and the establishment of specialization madrasas.

Instructor: Associate Prof. Zeki Salih ZENGİN

Examination: Written mid-tern and final exams

Text Book: Ahmet Çelebi : İslamda Eğitim-Öğretim Tarihi, Damla Yay., İstanbul 1983., Bayraktar, M. Faruk : İslam Eğitiminde Öğretmen-Öğrenci Münasebetleri, MÜİF Vakfı Yay., İstanbul 1989., Dağ, Mehmet/Öymen H. Raşid : İslam Eğitim Tarihi, MEB Yay., Ankara 1974., El-Kayrevani : İslam’da Öğretmen ve Öğrenci Münasebetlerine Dair Geniş Risale, Çev: Süleyman Ateş, Yeni Ufuklar Neşriyat, İstanbul 1995., İbn-i Cemaa : İslam Geleneğinde Öğretmen-Öğrenci, Marifet Yay., İstanbul 1998., İbn-i Sahnun : Eğitim ve Öğretimin Esasları, M.Ü.İ.F.Vakfı Yay., İstanbul 1996., Tütüncü, Mehmet : Türk-İslam Eğitimcisi Zernûcî, İzmir 1991.

Course Title: Historical Development of Psychology of Religion

Course No : FDB 727

Semester: First Year, Semester I (Autumn)

Course Type: Lecture

Hours/Week: 3  (Theory)

 Number of ECTS Credits:

Course Despition:Religion, Psycholgy, Psychology of Religion, Arising of  Psychology of Religion, Researchs of  Psychology of Religion in early years. Wundt, Leuba, Starbuck, Hall, James. Publications about the Psychology of Religion. Different approach to the Psychology of Religion. Psychology of Religion in Turkey.

Instructor: Associate Prof. Hasan KAYIKLIK

Examination: Written mid-tern and final exams

Text Book:Prolegomena to the Psychologrcal Study of Religion, B.Beit Hallahmi Invitation to the Psychology of Religion, R.F. Paloutzian.

Course Title: Main Problems of  Psychology of Religion

Course No : FDB 729

Semester : First Year, Semester I (Autumn)

Course Type: Lecture

Hours/Week: 3  (Theory)

 Number of ECTS Credits:

Course Despition: Psychology of Religion as a science. Explanation of religion in psychological perspective. Religion in individual life. Scientific an psychological methods. The problem of measurament of religiosity. 

Instructor: Associate Prof. Hasan KAYIKLIK

Examination: Written mid-tern and final exams

Text Book:Psychology of Religion, M.S. Meadow, R.D.Kahoe; Din Psikolojisi, Hayati Hökelekli.

Course Title: A General Survey to the History of Religions

Course No : FDB 741

Semester : First Year, Semester I (Autumn)

Course Type: Lecture

Hours/Week:3  (Theory)

 Number of ECTS Credits:

Course Despition:What is Religion? Definitions of Religion, Discussions about the Origin of the Religion, Different Definitions of History of Religion, Subject, Method and Necessity of the History of Religion, Classification of the Religions, Primitive Religions, Abrahamic Religions, History of Religion in the East and West, Studies of the History of Religions in Turkey, Some New Religious Cults, Unification Church, Yehova’s Witnesses, Satanism, Reincarnation and Yoga, Experiences of the Dialogue Between Religions, Samples of Christian Missionaries Methods, Some Comparatives about Different Religions.

Instructor: Assistant Prof. Kadir ALBAYRAK

Examination:Written mid-tern and final exams

Text Book: Günay Tümer-Abdurrahman Küçük, Dinler Tarihi, Ankara 1997., Ekrem Sarıkçıoğlu, Başlangıçtan Günümüze Dinler Tarihi, İstanbul 1938., Mircea Eliade, Dinler Tarihine Giriş, İstanbul 2003., Mehmet Aydın, Din Fenomeni, Konya 1995., Mircea Eliade- Joseph M. Kitagawa, The History of Religions, Chicao and London, 1974

Course Title: History of the Comparative Religion

Course No : FDB 743

Semester: First Year, Semester I (Autumn)

Course Type: Lecture

Hours/Week: 3  (Theory)

 Number of ECTS Credits:

Course Despition: Meaning and Name of the History of Comparative Religions, Its History and Development, Method of the History of Religions, History of Religions and Comparative Method, Characteristics of Comparative Religions, Principle of Objectivity in the Comparative, Diffucilties of this Method, Comparative Between Abrahamic Religions, Some Characteristics of the Historian of the Religions, In which Areas that We can Use Comparative Method?, Advantages of Comparative Method, Studies of the Comparative Religions in the East and West.

Instructor: Assistant Prof. Kadir ALBAYRAK

Examination: Written mid-tern and final exams

Text Book: Joachim Wach, The Comparative Study of Religions, New York, 1958., Abdullah Masdusi, Yaşayan Dünya Dinleri, İstanbul 1981., A.C. Bouguet, Comparative Religion, England 1973., The World’s Religions, ed. By, Stewart Sytherland, England 1988.

Course Title: The Religious Groups in the modern Turkey and The Aproaches of Their Religious Education

Course No : FDB 765

Semester: First Year, Semester I (Autumn)

Course Type: Lecture

Hours/Week: 3  (Theory)

 Number of ECTS Credits:

Course Despition:The cultural inheritance of Turkish community, the socio-cultural conditions of Turkey, the different religious perceptions and groups that are appeared at last 40-50 by the religious activity in theTurkish community and sometimes their going away from the origin of religion. The social problems that are appeared by their religious comment, the effects on education of these problems, the establishing and criticism of the religious and educational contents by resorting to the sources of these comprehensions that are nourished, to analyse from the point of view of the science of religious education, to criticize of their scientific basis, the attitudes of these comprehension and groups against the modern educational aproach and their position and their cases.

Instructor: Assistant Prof. Nebahat GÖÇERİ

Examination: Written mid-tern and final exams

Text Book: Nebahat Göçeri, Dini Derliler ve Din  Eğitimi Anlayışları (Doktora Tezi).

Course Title: The New Methods in the Religious Education

Course No : FDB 767

Semester : First Year, Semester I (Autumn)

Course Type: Lecture

Hours/Week: 3  (Theory)

 Number of ECTS Credits:

Course Despition:The seeking the new methods in the religious education in the result of the scientific methods on education at the modern age, the scientific mentality causing the dewelopment of the religious education as a science, the discussions are that the religous education is science or not?.

Instructor: Assistant Prof. Nebahat GÖÇERİ

Examination: Written mid-tern and final exams

Text Book: MEB, Din Eğitiminde Yeni Yaklaşımlar

Course Title: The Sociology of Religion Problems

Course No : FDB- 781

Semester : First Year, Semester I (Autumn)

Course Type: Lecture

Hours/Week: 3  (Theory)

 Number of ECTS Credits:

Course Despition:Sociology of religion is the study of human religion social life, groups and societes. İt is a dazzling and compelling enterprise, having as its subject matter our own behaviour as social beings. The scope of the sociology is extremely wide, ranging from the analysis of passing encountersbetween individuals in the street up to the investigation of global social process. Though the march of science has not replaced the basic functions of religion; it has outmoded particular religious manifestations. This fact is of great significance for the study of religion and society.

Instructor: Assistant Prof. Abdullah ALPEREN

Examination: Written mid-tern and final exams

Text Book: Joachim Wach, Din Sosyolojisi, Çev. Ünver Günay, Kayseri, 1990.

Course Title: Historical Ranks in the Sociolgy of Religion

Course No : FDB-783

Semester: First Year, Semester I (Autumn)

Course Type: Lecture

Hours/Week: 3  (Theory)

 Number of ECTS Credits:

Course Despition:Society or system, analysis of societies and religion relations under the social theories frame. Analysis of the formation of religion organizations, religion groups, religion institutions, community and society.

Instructor: Assistant Prof. Abdullah ALPEREN

Examination: Written mid-tern and final exams

Text Book: Yasin Aktay/M. Emin Köktaş, Din Sosyolojisi, Ankara, 1998.

Course Title: The Dimensions of Religious Life and Psycho-Social Adaptation

Course No : FDB 735

Semester: First Year, Semester I (Autumn)

Course Type: Lecture

Hours/Week: 3  (Theory)

 Number of ECTS Credits:

Course Despition: The discussion of the concepts of religion, religiousness, psycho-social adaptation and spiritual health, the description of religiousness and its conception on the determined types, the conception of religious life as a single dimension or many dimensions, to study sense, belief, worship, knowledge and effect dimensions of religion, basing on Glock and Stark, to evaluate the belief, worship and morals dimensions of religious life at Islamic tradition, the basic theories about personality and morals development (Freud, Erikson, Piaget and Kohlberg) and to evaluate of them from the religious personality and psycho-social adaptation perspective, the relation of religiousness with self-respect, anxiety, loneliness, socialization, the meaning searching of human, feeling of guilt and having a tendency to violence, theoretical approaches on this subject, the basic opinions of Freud, Jung, Adler, Fromm, James, Allport, A. Maslow, Frankl, Vergote and Godin, the effects of religious beliefs, attitudes and behaviors on the spiritual health, normal and pathological religiousness types

Instructor: Assistant Prof. Asım  YAPICI

Examination: Written mid-tern and final exams

Text Book:

Course Title: Religion and Identity

Course No : FDB 737

Semester: First Year, Semester I (Autumn)

Course Type: Lecture

Hours/Week: 3  (Theory)

Number of ECTS Credits:

Course Despition: The examination of religion, religiousness, identity, sub-identity, individual identity and social identity concepts, theoretical approaches about formation of identity, the formation process of religious identity, the relation of religious identity to culture and personality, the effect of religious identity on individual and social behaviors, the protecting role of religion on social identity, the effects of religious identity on religious life and to appear these effects in the form of normative and informative, the relation between value system and identical perception of person, at this context, the effect of religious values on identity and role system of person and the effect of religious identity on propane values, to evaluate theoretical and empiric approaches of Spranger, Allport, Rokeach, Schwartz, Durien-Fontaine and Lutyen about the relation among identity, religiousness and values

Instructor: Assistant Prof. Asım  YAPICI