Balıkesir İlahiyat Dergisi

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ABSTRACT
Presidency of Religious Affairs religious services has begun to appeal to different and broad segments after new expansions realized within the framework of needs. Many professional groups have been involved in the area whose responsibilities and means change over time, besides the target audience. One of those was the religious services specialty which was established in 1997. Like all presidential staff, the Presidency of Religious Affairs has determined work areas of religious services specialists by legal processes. However, the determination of how effectively and efficiently the theoretical determinations are transferred into practice has been the subject of study by accepting the requirement. In the research in which data were collected through semi-structured interview, one of the qualitative research techniques, have been reached important findings that will contribute to the planning and implementation of the service. The results revealed that all of the items in the relevant directive were put into practice by different religious services experts. But, issues such as an officer can be assigned to all of these and each item requires separate expertise and training suggested that there are problems that need to be solved for theory-practice unison. From this point of view, it has been concluded that reconsidering the work areas covering a large area in religious services and supporting them with educational studies will increase success.