Religious and seminary intellectualism: motivations and perspectives

Document Type : Research Paper

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Academy of Islamic Sciences and Culture

Abstract

The Iranian religious intellectual movement, which is led by people with various pluralistic thoughts, needs to be analyzed. Studying the goals behind this movement and comparing them with the goals behind seminary intellectualism is very important. After giving a short account of the intellectual approaches of the most important movements in religious intellectualism during the decades after the Islamic Revolution, the paper studies their motivations and perspectives so that after studying the worries of these movements the problems of religious intellectualism in Iran are reevaluated. After defining intellectualism, the paper studies the most important outlooks of religious intellectualism in the country on the basis of above-mentioned grounds and elaborated on the problems they have to attain their goals. The discussions on non-seminary intellectualism are based on the ideas of Soroosh and Malekian and with respect to seminary intellectualism the discussions are based on the general movement of modern thinking and reformism in seminary schools.

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