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The achievements at the Faculty of Theology after graduation, especially from a professional point of view, usually play a major role in their relationships with people throughout their lifetime. Acquisitions in the course of religious psychology, which studies the reflections of religion in individual feelings, thoughts and behaviors, are of particular importance for the students of the Faculty of Theology. Religious psychology courses are usually taught by teachers of religious psychology in the second and third classes at the Faculty of Theology. When the literature related to the discipline of religious psychology that is rapidly developing in our country and where the direction is too high is studied, there is a small number of research on the courses of religious psychology given at the Faculty of Theology. This research is a qualitative research that aims to reveal the common and different aspects of the perceptions of the students who take the course of religious psychology in the 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 academic years and are still studying at the Atatürk University. For this purpose, it constitutes a total of (12) students working groups, including (7) girls and (5) men, determined by the simple non-selective sample method. In order to reveal the perceptions of the students towards the course of religious psychology, the question interview form was prepared with the opinion of a specialist (5) faculty member / staff in the field of religious psychology and research methods in social sciences. In this study using the phenomonological pattern, the data obtained as a result of semi-structured conversations conducted with the working group was submitted to visual analysis. Paragraphs and phrases are selected as an analysis unit. The final data is evaluated in the light of the area. According to the findings obtained, students find the course of religious psychology important in terms of both being able to recognize themselves first and to analyze the persons they will be interacting. Students think that in order to learn how the information in the courses under the roof of the Basic Islamic Sciences will be expressed to the interlocutors, the obligation of the religious psychology course in the Faculty of Theology should be continued and more in terms of time. On the other hand, students who emphasize that the course of religious psychology is different in terms of content from the other courses at the Faculty of Theology wish that the current subjects they can transfer to life after graduation be included in the course.

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