Matin Research Journal

Matin Research Journal

The Relationship between Ideology and Religion and its Effect on Religious Varity with an Emphasis on Post-Revolution Iran

Document Type : Original Article

Author
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Imam Hossein University.
Abstract
The present work tries to explore the relationship between religion and ideology as epistemologies in its six parts to introduce the different forms of ideologically effected religion-believing. Hence while explaining the basic characteristics of Ideology; the relationship between these two concepts is explored in two different scenes of West and Iran. The historical-exploring study of this subject, especially in Iran, moves the article toward its main goal. Also it was considered crucial to introduce some critics in this regard. Finally five different forms of ideologically affected religion-believing were proposed and their respective characteristics were explored.
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