Prof. Dr. Ejder Okumuş, one of our professors at Faculty of Religious Sociology, received the Research Award of the Year in 2017.  Writers Union of Turkey explained "Author, Idea Man and Artists of the Year” on the first day of the year by assessing the developments in culture, art and ideas in our country in 2017. Within the scope of these awards, the research ward of the year was given to Prof. Dr. Ejder Okumuş for his book, “Religion and Social Conflict (İnsan Publishing, 2017)”.

According to Okumuş, religion, which continues to influence and guide society, family, education, politics, economy, time, space, law, morality, all aspects of social life according to different places and times, is an important part of today's global world / society. Religion is not only a part of the tradition, the traditional social life, but also an important part of the change, even the rapid change, chaos, violence, conflicts, wars, migrations, conflict solutions and peace that manifest in this change.

This book deals with the religious-social conflict, in other words, the phenomenon of religious-social conflict.

Religion, religious groups, organizations, movement and communities take parts in conflicts that take an important place in social life, international relations, global interactions, in revolutions, in power struggles, in terrorism and war, in revolts, in struggles for independence and freedom in various forms. In a more specific sense, some “Islamic”, “religious”, and “secular” groups or movement are in the field in religious coloured/looking conflicts that occur around us, near us and sometimes even within us  in a way that attracts the attentions/guns of big political, financial, technological and industrial powers and in a way that leaves local, national, regional, global impressions. However, the phenomenon of conflict that occupies the history and the present of all the world societies has not been sufficiently processed in Turkish and this fact has been effective in writing this book.