Epistemological Strategies of a Religious Government in Original Research Preventing Cultural Damages With Emphasis on the Holy Quran and the Sunnah

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Associate Professor of Islamic Education, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran

2 Ph.D. Student, Lecturer in Islamic Studies, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran

3 Assistant Professor of Allameh Tabatabai University

4 Associate Professor, Department of Islamic Education, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

One of the duties of a religious government is to ensure the 
intellectual, spiritual and psychological security of the people in a 
society. This research aims to investigate the methods of a religious 
government in preventing cultural damage using a descriptiveanalytical method; the main question which is to be answered is as 
follows: What are the epistemological strategies of a religious 
government in preventing cultural damages? In a general division, 
cultural strategies could be divided into practical (behavioral) 
strategies and epistemological strategies. Epistemological strategies 
are further divided based on perspective, tendency, and action. Belief in monotheism, prophethood, imamate and resurrection are among the
most important perspective-based epistemological strategies that play 
a fundamental role in preventing and removing cultural damage, and 
the religious government is obliged to try to strengthen these beliefs. 
Raising people's awareness, promoting the culture of seeking justice 
and rejecting tyranny, presenting religious teachings in an easy and 
simple way, and promoting religious teachings based on freedom are 
among the tendency-based epistemological strategies. And 
confronting harmful ideas such as heresy, eclecticism and skepticism, 
superstition and blind imitation of foreign culture is among the actionbased strategies of a religious government in preventing and removing 
cultural damages. 

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