The New Form Of Being-with: Islam, Family, and the Transformation of Privacy.

The transformation of privacy has emerged as a fundamental socio-cultural rupture in contemporary societies, wherein the boundaries, roles, and symbolic meanings between the institutions of religion and family are being renegotiated, leading to a broader dissolution of normative structures. This study aims to analyze the transformation of privacy within the context of social change, focusing on three interrelated axes: the structure of the family, the religious-normative framework, and the privacy-based relationship between religion and the family. A general review of the literature reveals that most studies on the transformation of privacy tend to examine religion and the family as separate domains. However, in-depth analyses exploring how these two institutions interact, influence each other, and renegotiate their respective boundaries through the lens of privacy remain limited. Addressing this gap, the present study is designed within a research framework grounded in Alfred Schütz’s phenomenological approach and his methodological proposals on typification within interpretive sociology. The central phenomenon of the research is defined as the "transformation of privacy" in its modern and Western sense. The analysis begins by examining the intersection of this transformation with the institutions of marriage and family. It examines its implications for religion and the interrelationship between religion and the family. The findings of the study indicate that the transformation of privacy, as a discursive formation, challenges the given structure of the family and the associated religious-normative framework. In a social context where the boundaries of privacy are increasingly blurred, the relationship between religion and the family has become a contested domain subject to ongoing negotiation. In this regard, the study offers a unique and integrative sociological perspective on contemporary social transformations through the intersecting lenses of religion, family, and privacy.