ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses omissions and emphasize the role of religion in the everyday life of Turkish migrants, the processes of religious socialization and religious practice within the migrant family. It explores questions as the centrality of religion in migrants' daily lives, religion as a source of identity and identification, interpretations of religious attitudes and practice depending on various socio-economic factors, as well as migration-related and symbolic particularities. The chapter presents main types of sociological findings concerning the forms of religiosity and religious socialization. For instance, sociological approaches to migrant populations in Germany have tended to focus on social integration and identity questions, whereas anthropological studies emphasize more cultural distinctiveness and change within the migrant community. That Turkish and Muslim identities overlap and that this was seen as natural is also evident in attitudes towards teaching Islamic religion at local schools.
