The Place and Importance of the Religious Counseling and Guıdance in Our Life

Early in the 20th century, in Western countries religious coun-seling and guidance has started with Anton Boisen's pioneering work. Today, it has become a psycho-social practice, frequently uses in hospitals, prisons, churches, universities, military and so on. In particular, the living conditions of today's people, religious belief and worship conception, material and spiritual troubles have changed over time. Having become globalized by changing social dynamics, in the face of capital values our people become lonely and depressed. People are looking for individual and insti-tutional support areas where they will seek refuge and spiritual help in this negative socio-psychological process in which they live.Therefore, it is expected that religious officials and mosques will be in a position to meet the routine religious services as well as to bring them to the central position of social life and to fulfill the functions that religion has to perform within the society. It is important for such studies, to develop in our country and to con-tribute the formation of the related literature in our country, the formation of a religious advisory field where faithful and religious people can be consulted when needed, the necessity of counseling in religious services and also to investigate the place of religious counseling in the life of a Muslim.