Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
RELIGIONS, cilt.16, sa.11, 2025 (AHCI, Scopus)
This article offers a comparative study of T. S. Eliot's Ash-Wednesday and & Idot;smet & Ouml;zel's "Ament & uuml;" to examine how modernist poetry refunctions ritual language as an aesthetic and spiritual response to different modernities. Drawing on world-systems theory and the sociology of secularization, the study argues that Eliot and & Ouml;zel exemplify two structurally distinct but related modern experiences: Eliot writes from within the West's internal fragmentation, while & Ouml;zel speaks from the periphery of an imposed, Westernizing modernity. These divergent contexts produce contrasting religious modernisms-Eliot's introspective Anglo-Catholic poetics of inward renewal versus & Ouml;zel's populist Islamic poetics of collective dissent. Both poets employ modernist form-fragment, refrain, montage-to reassert the sacred within secular conditions, yet with opposing cultural motivations. The comparison demonstrates that religious modernism is a transnational phenomenon, not a Western anomaly, and that literary modernism itself adapts to the asymmetries of global modernity. The article concludes by proposing "religious modernist poetics" as a comparative framework for studying faith and form across literary traditions.