Abstract:

This article deals with religious life in Tatlısu district in Northern Cyprus from the perspective of sinking into the world, producing an accommodated religiosity to the world and Diyanet as the official religious affairs in Cyprus. The sample covers 200 individuals whose ages range from 15 to 70. The two scales applied in the research process have been named “Religious Tendency Scale-I: Belief and Practice” and “Religious Tendency Scale-II: Social Life”. It explores the sinking into the world, the producing an accommodated religiosity to the world and the trust for Diyanet, questioning how religiosity differentiates according to these dynamics. The findings indicate that there is a negative correlation between religiosity and sinking into the world, on the contrary a positive relation between religiosity and harmonized religiosity with the world, apart from the trust for Diyanet. Moreover, we found statistically meaningful differentiation on sinking into the world, producing an accommodated religiosity to the world and Diyanet according to gender and religious education, while there is no  eaningful differentiation in relation to the age and economy. From the average points, in the district, we can say that the sinking into the world and the searching an accommodated religiosity to the world come along together and the trust for Diyanet is relative high. 

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