Abdullah Hosseini Eskandian; Ghorban-Ali Karimzadeh Gharamaleki
Abstract
One of the important issues that is raised today in the philosophy of religion and the new theology is the question of the origin of religion and how it came into existence. Religion is a phenomenon that mankind has been dealing with for a long time, and no era can be found in which religion does not ...
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One of the important issues that is raised today in the philosophy of religion and the new theology is the question of the origin of religion and how it came into existence. Religion is a phenomenon that mankind has been dealing with for a long time, and no era can be found in which religion does not exist. The origin of this important issue has always involved the minds of many sages and different views have been formed around this issue. Auguste Comte, the famous French sociologist, considers the origin of religion to be human ignorance and believes that the age of religion is over. On the other hand, Shahid Motahhari, who is one of the most prominent contemporary Islamic thinkers, has expressed detailed discussions about religion and its origin in his various works. Shahid Motahhari believes that the origin of religion is human nature, that man has a natural inclination towards religion and belief in the One God, and human factors cannot be the origin of religion. In this article, with the descriptive-analytical method, while explaining Comte's point of view, it is criticized based on Shahid Motahhari's Fitrà theory. Comte`s simplistic view of religion and reaching a paradox that he himself admitted to cannot be resolved with his evolutionary and functional equivalence theories and invalidates his view.
sayyedsajjad jafari; mahdi nemati
Abstract
One of the important topics related to religion is its connection with rationality, around which various views have been raised; As today, a group of people talk about pure rationalism as an independent criterion for distinguishing between right and wrong, for this reason, the present study seeks to ...
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One of the important topics related to religion is its connection with rationality, around which various views have been raised; As today, a group of people talk about pure rationalism as an independent criterion for distinguishing between right and wrong, for this reason, the present study seeks to answer the question, to what extent the theory of rationality can be a suitable criterion for answering, with a comparative study of religious spirituality and rational spirituality. And replace religious spirituality? The research method is analytical-descriptive and data collection has been done using library resources. After examining the origin of rationalized religion, the basics and characteristics of the said topic were discussed and finally the shortcomings of rationalized religion were discussed. The results of the research have shown that rationalized religion relies on the foundations and features such as secularism and humanism... based on which it suffers from deficiencies such as: the lack of clarity in the definition of rationalized religion, failure to achieve the goals of the theory, and contradictions in the nature of faith. ...it has happened that in many cases, not only can it not be a gift for modern man; It has also led to pain and suffering.
