although some scholars view habermas as the most important philosopher and social theorist, his account of religion has been relatively neglected. in this paper, habermas’s early and later views of religion are outlined, and the change in his understanding of religion from one of the sources of modernity’s inner problems to a principal source of the passions and motivations underpinning cultura...

the school of tafkik rejects reason and philosophical arguments to understand religious propositions and religious beliefs. they hold that the philosophical approach to understand religion is inconsistent to revealed religion. thus, the only true way to understand religion is revealed one. the purpose of this paper is to examine the approach of the school of tafkik and its arguments. in this ar...

since land reform in iran, rural studies and rural sociology have been concentrated on rural society as economical and political phenomena; therefore mostly traditional systems of production and power were noted in researches. one issue that was not addressed in this academic discourse was rural religion. religion as a core of culture and the main context to reproduce social integration has a k...

After long neglect, the subject of religion has received growing attention in the economics profession over the past two decades. One of the reasons is that it has proven diffi cult to explain the levels of economic development of many nations around the world without reference to a national culture, and many of these cultures have been signifi cantly infl uenced by religion. Contrary to a wide...

How did religion evolve? What effect does religion have on our moral beliefs and moral actions? These questions are related, as some scholars propose that religion has evolved to enhance altruistic behavior toward members of one's group. I review here data from survey studies (both within and across countries), priming experiments, and correlational studies of the effects of religion on racial ...

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