GÜNDAY, Rıfat Ondokuz Mayıs Üniversitesi - Eğitim Fakültesi - Fransız Dili Eğitimi, Turkey

The Use of Religion for Personal Interests in The Novels of Zola’s Gerçek and Güntekin’s Yeşil Gece

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Religion is a sociological phenomenon which has an important influence up on human beings and the society. The people in several communities has adopted religious values as sacred and followed them. However, sometimes some people and groups, who use the religion for their personal interests, have emerged. The ignorance, the lack of sincere belief and the considering the interests as superior to other values lead to the manipulation of the religion. This problem has been put forward by some writers, artists and intellectuals in both France and Turkey. Zola in his novel Gerçek and Güntekin in his novel Yeşil Gece have handled this issue that they thought as essential for the future of their own societies. In both novels can be seen that the religion has been turned into a “label” from the media world to the education, from the church and medresse to the political areas.

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Religion , Exploitation , Interest

Journal Of Uludag University Faculty Of Education

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