Özet:

This study, which forms an important part of the society in which we live and aims to reveal the problems, expectations and the meaning and function of religion in their world of individuals with insufficiency of vision, has emerged with the interpretation of the interviews data with persons with insufficiency of vision living in Istanbul. This study revealed the social and religious problems of people with visual disabilities living in different places of Istanbul and being educated in different institutions, expectations from the community and solutions suggestions from their sight. In the selection of the work group of this research, which is based on the method of understanding and explanation by movement from the interview data, the cartridge technique was used. The reason for the choice of this method is to get the more correct answers by winning their confidence. The first part of the study consisting of two sections discussed the fact of disability and the view of the fact of disability of religion. In the second section, the results of the interview were divided into categories. The results of this study also ranked problems, expectations and solutions proposals. As every individual, the findings were made that people with visual disabilities also have trouble in the social and religious field, that they do not have sufficient social awareness, that social and religious institutions should work together to enhance social awareness.