Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
RELIGIONS, cilt.16, sa.8, ss.1-20, 2025 (AHCI, Scopus)
This study is a qualitative study conducted in order to examine the religious lives of
students studying in different faculties of (x) University in the academic year 2024–2025
and to understand their perspectives on religious beliefs and practices. The research data
were obtained through semi-structured interviews with 20 students on a voluntary basis.
In the study, students’ worship habits, such as prayer, fasting, reading the Qur’an, and
praying, which can be considered as the basic worship practices of Islam, and the reflection
of these habits on their lives were discussed. The data obtained show that the majority
of the students attach importance to religious practices but have various difficulties in
fulfilling these practices. In the study, it was determined that most of the participants
evaluated prayer as a means of connecting with God, finding inner peace, and gaining
a sense of responsibility, and fasting in the context of patience, self-training, empathy,
and spiritual maturity. The majority of the participants embraced the Qur’an as the main
source and sacred text of Islam, and they practiced reading the Qur’an in Arabic more
than they practiced reading the translation. Praying was determined as the most common
and continuous practice among the participants. As a result, it has been determined
that although university youth do not have different results in terms of beliefs regarding
worship, they do not show the same sensitivity in terms of practice.
Keywords: Islam; Turkey; university youth; worship