FROM DESTINY TO IMAGINATION: OCCIDENTALISM RECONSIDERED WITH RESPECT TO CADASTRALIZATION OF RELIGION & OTHERIZATION OF BEING

Volume: 6 Number: 3 December 31, 2006
  • Şevket Yavuz
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FROM DESTINY TO IMAGINATION: OCCIDENTALISM RECONSIDERED WITH RESPECT TO CADASTRALIZATION OF RELIGION & OTHERIZATION OF BEING

Abstract

Occidentalism is an effort to reconstruct the "Occident/al", presumed to be outside the "Orient/al", in a fashion of mirror image, an image that used to be constructed by the discourses of Orientalism, and in a manner of pendulum rhythm. The epistemic codes of Occidentalism that are an attempt to compensate and define itself, the self had been stereotyped for centuries by the Occident/West, through the otherization of the Occident, can be traced back to the ancient world to Christian-Muslim relations and to the speculative binary oppositions between the mystic, exotic, and irrational East and the practical, realist, and rational West. It would seem that total categorizations and stratifications something like these oppositions working in the metaphysical domain are meaningless unless power and hegemony relations are taken into consideration. To attach the humane, religious, ideological, and theological to the metaphysical (in both Orientalism and Occidentalism) is, as if, a replica of the strategy of the trans-natural. According to Occidentalism, the modern urban, centre of arrogance, supremacy, rootlessness, perfidiousness, and meaninglessness, is the symbol of the neo-pagan West, in which the material fetishized and evil, whim, and pleasure are idealized, and as such comprises of the static essence of the West itself. Freezing the West as a static substance and discovering and reconstructing its identity and memory out of this frozen substance are to lose the possibilities of change and transformation within metaphysical dialectical mode at the individual and local levels in the West. That is to say: Both this Occident is molded as "other" within static forms via objectification; and the religion, creed, and value system of this "other" cadastralized within the quantity of topographic parcels. The praxes of this cadastralization are, in fact, highly "occidental" in form with respect to the wisdom tradition of the East; because this tradition neither approves of the diabolization of topography, or fetishization, nor of suspending and othering human being, nor of cadastralizing the religious domain.

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Şevket Yavuz

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December 31, 2006

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January 1, 2006

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Year 2006 Volume: 6 Number: 3

APA
Yavuz, Ş. (2006). TAKDİRDEN TAHAYYÜLE: DİNİN KADASTROLAŞMASI VE VARLIĞIN ÖTEKİLEŞTİRİLMESİ BAĞLAMINDA OKSİDANTALİZMİ YENİDEN DÜŞÜNMEK. Marife Dini Araştırmalar Dergisi, 6(3), 107-122. https://izlik.org/JA78WF35WN
AMA
1.Yavuz Ş. TAKDİRDEN TAHAYYÜLE: DİNİN KADASTROLAŞMASI VE VARLIĞIN ÖTEKİLEŞTİRİLMESİ BAĞLAMINDA OKSİDANTALİZMİ YENİDEN DÜŞÜNMEK. Marife. 2006;6(3):107-122. https://izlik.org/JA78WF35WN
Chicago
Yavuz, Şevket. 2006. “TAKDİRDEN TAHAYYÜLE: DİNİN KADASTROLAŞMASI VE VARLIĞIN ÖTEKİLEŞTİRİLMESİ BAĞLAMINDA OKSİDANTALİZMİ YENİDEN DÜŞÜNMEK”. Marife Dini Araştırmalar Dergisi 6 (3): 107-22. https://izlik.org/JA78WF35WN.
EndNote
Yavuz Ş (December 1, 2006) TAKDİRDEN TAHAYYÜLE: DİNİN KADASTROLAŞMASI VE VARLIĞIN ÖTEKİLEŞTİRİLMESİ BAĞLAMINDA OKSİDANTALİZMİ YENİDEN DÜŞÜNMEK. Marife Dini Araştırmalar Dergisi 6 3 107–122.
IEEE
[1]Ş. Yavuz, “TAKDİRDEN TAHAYYÜLE: DİNİN KADASTROLAŞMASI VE VARLIĞIN ÖTEKİLEŞTİRİLMESİ BAĞLAMINDA OKSİDANTALİZMİ YENİDEN DÜŞÜNMEK”, Marife, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 107–122, Dec. 2006, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA78WF35WN
ISNAD
Yavuz, Şevket. “TAKDİRDEN TAHAYYÜLE: DİNİN KADASTROLAŞMASI VE VARLIĞIN ÖTEKİLEŞTİRİLMESİ BAĞLAMINDA OKSİDANTALİZMİ YENİDEN DÜŞÜNMEK”. Marife Dini Araştırmalar Dergisi 6/3 (December 1, 2006): 107-122. https://izlik.org/JA78WF35WN.
JAMA
1.Yavuz Ş. TAKDİRDEN TAHAYYÜLE: DİNİN KADASTROLAŞMASI VE VARLIĞIN ÖTEKİLEŞTİRİLMESİ BAĞLAMINDA OKSİDANTALİZMİ YENİDEN DÜŞÜNMEK. Marife. 2006;6:107–122.
MLA
Yavuz, Şevket. “TAKDİRDEN TAHAYYÜLE: DİNİN KADASTROLAŞMASI VE VARLIĞIN ÖTEKİLEŞTİRİLMESİ BAĞLAMINDA OKSİDANTALİZMİ YENİDEN DÜŞÜNMEK”. Marife Dini Araştırmalar Dergisi, vol. 6, no. 3, Dec. 2006, pp. 107-22, https://izlik.org/JA78WF35WN.
Vancouver
1.Şevket Yavuz. TAKDİRDEN TAHAYYÜLE: DİNİN KADASTROLAŞMASI VE VARLIĞIN ÖTEKİLEŞTİRİLMESİ BAĞLAMINDA OKSİDANTALİZMİ YENİDEN DÜŞÜNMEK. Marife [Internet]. 2006 Dec. 1;6(3):107-22. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA78WF35WN