Necessity of Religious Education According to Turkish Intellectual

This study was carried out by taking the perspectives of about 40 Turkish intellectuals who lived in the Republican era, had opinions about religious education and influenced the past or the present, partly by their ideas or practices. The Republican period was dealt with in three subheadings, first (1920-1946), middle (1946-1980) and last period (1980-2018). Throughout the republic period, it has been addressed the subjects which intellectuals have dealt with, featured questions and comparative studies and it has been cited opinions of the intellectuals who are classified theologian and the others. The effects of posivitism on Turkish intellectuals are very limited and they stand rarely against religious education. They try ro ground the benefits of religion/religious education to the induvidual and society; results that could be in the absence of religion/religious education. They compare countries and societies where religious education exists or not. Some think that religion is the work of conscience which must be given in the family or the mosques rather than in the formal education and defend that education system must be constructed without religion. On the grounds that modernity, and secularism religious education has no place in formal education