Philosophy of Education
babak shamshiri; mohammad mazidi
Abstract
The religious intellectualism, resulting from thereligious confrontation with modernity, has become one of the most contentious,though influential, approaches in the contemporary Islamic world. Thisphenomenon has also given rise to many controversial debates among the scholarssubscribing to different ...
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The religious intellectualism, resulting from thereligious confrontation with modernity, has become one of the most contentious,though influential, approaches in the contemporary Islamic world. Thisphenomenon has also given rise to many controversial debates among the scholarssubscribing to different theoretical and ideological orientations. These orientations have provided grounds forthe religious intellectualism in Iran to be labeled as different intellectualwaves such as Islamic revival, Islamization of knowledge with its very recenttrend recognized as an epistemological and philosophical orientation. Therecent religious intellectualism in Iran claims to possess the ability to adaptreligion to modernity and its components such as citizenship. The main purposeof this study, first, was to verify the possibilities and capacity of therecent religious intellectualism so that a program for educating appropriatecitizens could be drawn up. This research was conducted under a qualitativeparadigm using a descriptive-interpretive approach to analyze the data. Theresults of the study reveal that the current intellectualism in Iran, with allof its pre-suppositions and principles which prioritize epistemology overontology has been able to adapt itself, in many cases, to the assumptions ofmodernity and modern citizenship thus making provisions for the realization ofthe modern citizenship training.
