A Theological Approach to Religion and Culture
hossein
sharafoddin
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Imam Khomeini Educational and Research Institute. Qom, Iran
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text
article
2021
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The divine religions have a very rich and renewed capacity to produce and present a transcendental culture that conforms to their doctrinal capacities, goals, and mission to social humanity. The also depend on their doctrinal capacity, social status, quantity, and quality of their followers, how they interact with revelatory teachings, readings and interpretations provided by religions researchers, opportunities and environmental constraints and the like. They have a very decisive and absolute role in the purposeful confrontation with the established customary culture and its components. Therefore, the relationship between religion and culture and how they interact, especially in the process of human social history, is one of the topics that is generally raised by sociologists of religion, and different views and positions have been adopted in response to it. This paper tries to extract and analyze the answer to the above question from the relevant sources and texts by focusing on the viewpoints and thoughts of religions researchers who have worked on this issue explicitly or implicitly, mainly through theological approaches and intra-religious explorations. Accordingly, its main question is the possible relations between religion and culture as two semantic systems from the theological point of view and from the point of view of selected thinkers. The method of data collection is documentary and the method of analysis is inferential interpretation.
Journal of Islam and Social Studies
Islamic Sciences and Culture of Academy
2345-5586
9
v.
شماره3(پیاپی35)
no.
2021
7
44
https://jiss.isca.ac.ir/article_71853_75c8afe2a10c0812b0a3d610d13dd4d9.pdf
dx.doi.org/10.22081/jiss.2022.61005.1815
The Mechanism of Social Change from the Perspective of the Qur'an based on the Course of Revelation
Mohammad Hassan
Akhlaqi
PhD in Qur'anic Interpretation and Sciences from Al-Mustafa Society, Qom, Iran (Corresponding Author)
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Mohsen
Alviri
Professor and Director of the Department of History, Baqir Al-Olum University, Qom, Iran
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article
2021
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Since ancient times, understanding society and its issues has been at least part of the scientific efforts of scientists. The concern of explaining social changes and transformations that occur at the level of social institutions and structures, and providing a proper explanation of it, were the issues that led to the creation of a science called sociology. Sociologists have offered multiple and in some cases opposite perspectives on social change since they look at society from different angles and levels of analysis. According to religion (worldview, Shariah and ethics), psychological motivations, economics and action, which became the basis for the formation of basic sociological ideas, are the most important components in the analysis of social change. Contemplating the verses of the Qur'an and analyzing them based on these components, considering the revelation movement (of the Qur'an), can be a solution to present a Qur'anic model of the mechanism of social change. After contemplating the verses and quantitative and qualitative analysis of the data, the mechanism of social change from the perspective of the Qur'an is a multidimensional and cyclical process. In this process, the worldview and beliefs of individuals in society as the basis of social change affects their actions and causes reproduction or changes in structures, but this effect is not unilateral. Eventually, from the perspective of the Qur'an, any analysis to understand social change and its mechanism must focus on the interrelationship between belief and action
Journal of Islam and Social Studies
Islamic Sciences and Culture of Academy
2345-5586
9
v.
شماره3(پیاپی35)
no.
2021
45
82
https://jiss.isca.ac.ir/article_71854_40e18dfa7c0640b8e4cbf6d072bddcab.pdf
dx.doi.org/10.22081/jiss.2022.56976.1623
Social Control in Nahj al-Balaghah: Basics and Examples
Hafizallah
Fooladi
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Research Institute for University and Hawzah, Qom, Iran
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Gholamreza
Marefi
Assistant Professor Shahed University, Tehran, Iran
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text
article
2021
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Social control is one of the most important tools for preventing, reducing, and combating social crimes and deviations, but also one of the most effective levers, along with the proper use of the socialization process, for the realization and continuity of the ideal society. Thinkers of social sciences have provided valuable insights and solutions by explaining the concept of social control and how it works in society. In the meantime, the divine religions, especially the school of Islam, have explicit and clear teachings about control and its examples. Nahj al-Balaghah, after the Holy Quran, is one of the most valuable scientific and cultural heritage of Shiism, which has clear propositions in this regard. The present study seeks to explain and introduce the theoretical foundations and examples of social control from the perspective of Imam Ali in Nahj al-Balaghah. The propositions of this book present a value system, a system of comprehensive supervision and control in which the executives and managers of the community and those who are in charge of the treasury, but also the general public, are responsible and accountable. This study has examined this issue in a descriptive-analytical method and based on the analysis of selected data from the text of the book. The findings of the study indicate the attention of God and His agents, as well as the need to use forces and adopt mechanisms to monitor the performance of executives and those who have access to the treasury or are in contact with the people.
Journal of Islam and Social Studies
Islamic Sciences and Culture of Academy
2345-5586
9
v.
شماره3(پیاپی35)
no.
2021
83
107
https://jiss.isca.ac.ir/article_70876_25857cc6b2f83f01c0097401ccf6c65c.pdf
dx.doi.org/10.22081/jiss.2021.60079.1771
The Role of Social Determination in Interpretation
alizafar
mohebbi
. PhD student in Qur'an and Social Sciences, Higher Complex of Humanities, Al-Mustafa University, Qom, Iran (Corresponding Author)
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hasan
khairi
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Islamic Azad University, Qom, Iran
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article
2021
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A brief look at the various interpretation (of the Qur'an) books indicates the undeniable fact that each of them has been compiled with a specific tendency, method and point of view, and this has posed a significant distance and difference between these interpretations. In some cases, the interpretations of a verse are opposition and contradictory. The main question is what has caused such a difference of interpretation? The present study is based on one of the paradigms proposed in the issue of "social determination of knowledge" and also the use of the theory Conventions (I’tibariat), and uses an analytical-descriptive method. The paper seeks to prove the hypothesis that differences in views on interpretation are influenced by social determinations. In other words, interpretive impressions are influenced by the conditions, contexts, and social realities of the interpreter society. Therefore, while addressing with theoretical issues, also some issues have been proved to be affected by the interpretation of social determination.
Journal of Islam and Social Studies
Islamic Sciences and Culture of Academy
2345-5586
9
v.
شماره3(پیاپی35)
no.
2021
108
137
https://jiss.isca.ac.ir/article_71855_eb7864d7e58d1ee959d7633bf2ee6174.pdf
dx.doi.org/10.22081/jiss.2022.59597.1740
An Examination of Social Changes in the Fundamental Reform Document of Education
Sayyid Mohammad Hossein
Hashemian
Associate Professor, Department of Strategic Management, Baqir Al-Olum University, Qom, Iran
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article
2021
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The concept of examination turned into a significant topic in the field of cultural studies along with the linguistic changes in the humanities. Because of these studies, broader social and cultural contexts and how the society changes came into focus. Accordingly, it is necessary to pay attention to the examination of the society and how it changes. The question that arises here is that how the Fundamental Reform Document of Education (in Iran)-which was created with the aim of solving some of the problems of Iranian education system- examines the level of society, and what is the consequence of this particular examination? For this purpose, Fairclough's method of critical discourse analysis was selected as a method for studying social and cultural changes, and then through Michael Halliday's linguistic mechanisms, in three stages, this document was reconstructed and finally, using this method, the text of the document was reviewed and the results were presented. According to the document, the community has seven areas: education, politics and administration, culture, religion, media and communications, professional and economic areas, and health. These areas are not equal in terms of validity; rather, it is the discipline of religious discourse that comes first and makes it possible to interpret other disciplines of the discourse. The research findings suggest that by using the intellectual foundations of the religious discourse, this document has not been able to interpret other discourse systems significantly and caused a serious change in them. Accordingly, drawing the relationships between the seven thematic areas of the document in line with a social change in the education system has not been achieved.
Journal of Islam and Social Studies
Islamic Sciences and Culture of Academy
2345-5586
9
v.
شماره3(پیاپی35)
no.
2021
138
172
https://jiss.isca.ac.ir/article_71856_e0286c2c61b57820fb0c7d5917f12e5a.pdf
dx.doi.org/10.22081/jiss.2022.60827.1802
An analysis of Family System based on the Succession Theory of Shahid Sadr
Muhammad
Rafiq
Assistant Professor at Al-Mustafa International University, Qom, Iran (Corresponding author).
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Fazel
Hesami
Assistant Professor Al-Mustafa International University, Qom, Iran
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Hassan
Khairi
Associate Professor, azad University, Qom, Iran
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Monzer
Hakim
Professor and Head of Al-Dhoriyah Al-Nabawiyyah Research Institute, Qom, Iran.
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2021
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Based on the views and social theory of Shahid Sadr, every society consists of three elements: nature, human, and relationship. The nature of the third element is what distinguishes the nature of human societies from each other. The Holy Qur'an calls the formative nature of this relationship as Istikhlaf (succession). According to istikhlaf, human has set foot on earth as a divine successor and trustee. What kind of family system is drawn based on the theory of succession of Shahid Sadr is a question that this paper seeks to answer with interrogative and analytical methods, focusing on the valuable works of Shahid Sadr. The general structure of the successive family system is that there is a successive spirit in all family relationships and at every level. In the successive family system, the man is the "guardian" and this concept is not called patriarchy. Maintaining the status of women in this system is one of the most important elements of the Qur'anic family, which has many functions. Playing this role is to perform tasks such as housekeeping, marriage and raising children, hisn (fortress), and protection and meeting the material and spiritual needs of the family while maintaining the status of "muhsin (the married man)" and "guardian" of the spouse. The innate and real status of father in the successive family system is the guardian, manager, protector, head, prince, and householder of family members and spouse. Extracting the words "Muhsin" and "Qayim (meaning the married man and the guardian respectively)" for men and the words "Muhsnah" and "Qanetah" (meaning a married woman and an obedient woman respectively) from the Qur'an for the social status of women is one of the innovations of this study.
Journal of Islam and Social Studies
Islamic Sciences and Culture of Academy
2345-5586
9
v.
شماره3(پیاپی35)
no.
2021
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https://jiss.isca.ac.ir/article_71857_d4e976aa202989f5bfe1f9ad12e9253e.pdf
dx.doi.org/10.22081/jiss.2020.58682.1691
An Examination of the Level of Media Literacy and the Ability to Produce Religious Content in Cyberspace
(Case study: students of Qom Islamic Seminary)
Atefeh
Arkan
Researcher of the Islamic Republic Broadcasting Center, Qom, Qom, Iran (Corresponding author).
author
Amir
Yazdian
PhD in Social Communication Sciences, Allameh Tabatabaei University, Tehran, Iran.
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Faezeh
Arkan
Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Faculty Member of the Faculty of Humanities, Hazrat-e Masoumeh University. Qom. IranQom , Iran.
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article
2021
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The clerics familiarity with media skills, in other words, acquiring media literacy for students of Islamic Seminary, has allowed them to deal with the message consciously in order to critically examine it and investigate the reasons for producing the message according to the attitude of media administrators and finally, by producing content in social networks, they use the media as a powerful and effective tool and an irreplaceable opportunity to guide and direct the audience to Sharia. Therefore, this study has been conducted to examine level of media literacy of Islamic Seminary students and identify their ability to produce religious content in social networks. The research method was survey, a questionnaire technique was used to collect data, and SPSS software was used for analysis. The findings suggested that most Islamic Seminary students are above average in terms of media literacy and critical thinking, and their ability to produce content is average and expected. In addition, there is a significant correlation and direct relationship between the variables of content production ability and media literacy (r = 0.391, sig. = 0.000). The results of multivariate regression also showed that the critical view has the highest correlation with media literacy, but the content production ability has the lowest correlation with this variable.
Journal of Islam and Social Studies
Islamic Sciences and Culture of Academy
2345-5586
9
v.
شماره3(پیاپی35)
no.
2021
206
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https://jiss.isca.ac.ir/article_71858_24142e012519afa07efa9e7e32195714.pdf
dx.doi.org/10.22081/jiss.2021.59864.1755