Urban Sinfulness: The Tendencies of Secularization in the Urban Piety and the Deviances/Distortions in the Sense of Sinfulness

In recent years, “urban piety” has become a controversial concept in media and social science circles. The concept has been at the centre of the heated debates due to the developments emerged within the infl uence of the political and social circumstances. The subject of this study is the “urban sinfulness” which is ever-increasing at the present time and the distortion in the sense of sin among the people who live in cities. “The sinfulness sense of the people living in cities are formed within their rural life experiences and culture, so they are unable to explain their sinful conditions in cities.” Therefore, the thesis of urban sinfulness is based on this view. The sin discourse that is used within the traditional religious education and training don’t suffi ce to evaluate the behaviours of today’s people. In addition, it leads to the sense of “sinlessness”. At the present time, cities have become the centre of “the major sin” relations.