Özet:

As known, religions use many kind of symbols and we can say that color symbolism is one of them. Color as a phenomenon of culture has a very important role in all religions. For as long as there have been people, there have been different color perceptions. So, there was/is a relationship between color perceptions and religions. But the multidisciplinary approach to the role of color in history and modern social sciences is an imperative. Because of this, in this article, we study the main colors specified in the beliefs of the national religions from the aspect of history of religions. In this context, we researched the phenomenon of color in the Turkish culture, Indian, Chinese, Japanese and Iranian religions.