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The main objective of this study is to examine the relationship between urbanization and religious life. In sociological sense, urbanization emerges as a synchronous phenomenon with industrial revolution. Urbanization, one of the dynamics that characterizes modern industrial society, exposes traditional society structure, culture, social organization, permanent values and norms to radical change processes. Religion is a sociological institution whose existence has been accepted since the beginning of history and has a social control function in the social life. The existence and orientation of the relationship between urbanization and religious life create the theme of this research. Religious life in the urbanization process was reviewed in Istanbul at Başakşehir district with taking into account the theoretical, practical and social dimensions which are the expression of religious experience with the socio-cultural and socio-economic variables. Direct observation method and survey technique were used in the research. The surveys were coded by entering in SSPS 22 program. According to the result, the conservative and religious masses who lived in different districts of Istanbul and included in the middle and upper classes in the 1990s, abandoned their places; it was seen that they were settled in Başakşehir, a satellite city with calm, clean and green areas, which also allowed for self-exclusion. This situation has been evaluated as affecting the possible results between urbanization and religious life variables and some results appeared in this framework.

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