İlahiyat Akademi

Öz

In this study, the religious discourse of the Presidency/Directorate of Religious Affairs is discussed within the framework of the Editorials published in the Diyanat Newspaper and the Diyanat Monthly Magazine and written by the President of Religious Affairs (Incl. Deputies and Assistants). The the Presidency/Directorate, which was included in the current administrative structure during the shifting of the Republic, was obliged to lead religious services as a public duty. The Presidency/Directorate fulfills the required duties by the legislation through different administrative units established within the process. It is well-known that the service policies and sensitivities of the Directorate are shared with the public through the perspective of the President of Religious Affairs. The Presidency/Directorate of Religious Affairs has been conveying its messages to the society systematically through the periodicals published editorials, consecutively since the 1950s. Concerning, this article, some evaluations were made about the religious discourse of the Directorate by taking the Diyanat Newspaper and Diyanat Monthly Magazine Editorials to the centric consideration. In the religious discourse of the Directorate, there is a centric framework on the principles of faith and certain beliefs, the life of worship, unity and solidarity, morality and social life, which are shaped depending on the jurisdictive granted to it by the Law; however, it is noteworthy that messages about moral and social life issues become important and noticed by people.