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Psychology of Religion is a science that is developing rapidly in Turkey as in the world and attracts great attention by researchers. In this article, we deal with one of the first representative of Psychology of Religion in Turkey Prof. Dr. Hüseyin Peker who has made significant contributions and continuous to contribute to this field with his books, articles, papers, thesis and students he has trained in the last half-century. This research, which is a biography, is based on his works, interviews about him, the opinions of his students, the interviews with some other teachers of the field and literarture review. The research consists of two sections following the introduction. In the introduction; the method, purpose and importance of the research are included. In the first part, his life, books, articles and papers; in the second part, Prof. Dr. Hüseyin Peker’s contributions to the field in the context of the evaluations of Religious Psychologists in Turkey; the third part includes the evaluations and conclusion part. As a result of the research, it has been seen that Prof. Dr. Hüseyin Peker made important contributions to development of the Psychology of Religious Department with his works, students and thesis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The conceptual tools of psychology aim to explain the complexity of phenomena that psychotherapists observe in their patients and within themselves, as well as to predict the outcome of therapy. Naturally, Muslim psychologists have sought satisfaction in the conceptual tools of their trade and in what has been written in Islamic psychology--notably by Badri (The dilemma of Muslim psychologists, MWH London, London, 1979), who critiqued Western psychology from an Islamic perspective, arguing the need to filter out from Western Psychology which was cross-culturally invalid or was in conflict with Islamic precept. In this paper, I advocate an extension of Badri's (1979) approach and present a working model of the self derived from traditional Islamic thought. This model, though rudimentary and incomplete, I believe, makes better sense of my perceptions as a clinician than any other psychological model within my knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]