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 This study aims to contribute to the solution of the basic problems experienced in the Enlightenment and post-enlightenment process with a religious education approach that focuses on self-consciousness. In the study, firstly, the concept of “self” was examined; then, the main problems experienced by Western human conception that emerged after the Enlightenment, especially false self-construction, individualism, loss of meaning, and separation from the metaphysical field were briefly discussed. In the following parts of the study, the question regarding the function attributed to education in the in the contemporary period was addressed, and in the last part, the ability of religious education to offer solutions to the crises of modern people was discussed. In the study, the importance of human returning to himself with all his abilities and trying to get to know and comprehend himself was emphasized; and it was concluded that the scientific paradigm, which dominates modernity and later, is incomplete in introducing the human to himself with all his aspects. At this point, it was emphasized that a religious education that introduces a person to his own self contains important opportunities and in addition to this, it was pointed out that there is a need for a Muslim typology equipped with self-consciousness, more than ever, due to the peculiar conditions of the period in which it is lived. In short, it is suggested that religious education processes should be made more functional for the modern individual by adding a new dimension to religious education through self-consciousness.

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