List of Articles Religious education

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  1 - The Position of Aesthetics in Sublimation of Religious Education
       
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  Considering the fact that the existing approaches in determining the ultimate goals of the educational system are based on Islamic education, therefore, to explain this education and highlighting its potentials for promoting excellence are highly important in educationa More

  Considering the fact that the existing approaches in determining the ultimate goals of the educational system are based on Islamic education, therefore, to explain this education and highlighting its potentials for promoting excellence are highly important in educational science research. The aim of this study is to explain the position of aesthetics and aesthetic perception in promoting sublimity and the realization of religious education.The research method is descriptive- analytical. The purpose of the analysis was to identify and pin down the relevant concepts and map the network of their relationships. For this purpose, first the concept of religiosity and religious education and its approaches were examined. Then, the concept of aesthetics and the nature of aesthetic perception and the theory associated with aesthetic perception and aesthetic education were introduced. Finally, the conceptual relationships peculiar to the special place of aesthetic sublimity in religious education were proposed and discussed. Results indicate that, based on the conceptual networks established between the components of religious education and those of aesthetics, the introduction of aesthetics components in the educative process could provide grounds for the enrichment of internal motivation, inner experience and moral obligation.Thus it seems that for the successful execution of religious education attention to aesthetics as an important part of axiology of education is a necessary condition over and above the art of pedagogy. Manuscript profile
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  2 - An Investigation of Paul Hirst's View of Religious Education Based on Plato's Theory of Virtuous Education
     
  Hirst, the contemporary analytical thinker, considers the religious education impossible; because he believes that it is a compulsory education and thus it will deprive the student of the opportunity to live a critical and creative life, therefore, it is meaningless and More

  Hirst, the contemporary analytical thinker, considers the religious education impossible; because he believes that it is a compulsory education and thus it will deprive the student of the opportunity to live a critical and creative life, therefore, it is meaningless and impedes the student's intellectual development. According to Hirst, the goal of education is to liberate the mind from all that excludes the mind from its particular function, rationality, the liberation of thought and action of human from error and without any external necessity. This is the virtuous cultivation that goes back to Plato. Given that virtuous cultivation requires a kind of rationality, there is no difference between Plato and Hirst; however, Plato did not devote himself in any of his works to the virtuous cultivation of religious education, but has always identified virtue-based education at a lower level of religious education. Their difference is in accordance with their validities, and the contrast between them is in a vertical relation, because according to Platonic metaphysics, virtue-based education, with the exception of religion, will end the evolutionary process. On the other hand, the result of rejecting religious education and accepting the plurality of cultures in Hirst's theory of education is a negation to the educational principles. From the point of view of Plato, when a conflict occurs among the principles of education, it is necessary to derive non-experimental and non-deductive principles for education from intuitive judgments; the principles that have been neglected in Hirst's theory of education. Manuscript profile
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  3 - Story, Religious Identity, and Religious Education: An Analysis Based on the Narrative Hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur
  Ali Vahdati Daneshmand    
  The current crisis of meaning and identity is one of the major concerns for every educational system. Religious identity is one of the aspects of this problem that is highly recognized in Islamic Iran. This paper tries to provide a picture for the concept of religious i More

  The current crisis of meaning and identity is one of the major concerns for every educational system. Religious identity is one of the aspects of this problem that is highly recognized in Islamic Iran. This paper tries to provide a picture for the concept of religious identity, the role of stories, one of the chief sources of meaning, in its genesis and the consequences of storytelling for religious education based on the narrative hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur. The Ricoeurian thought shows that religious texts in general and religious stories in particular shape the religious identity. According to Ricoeur, description using narratives, is subject to pure narrativisim and it is necessary to move to explanation step. Although every narrative has its own world, but to explain the religious teachings using narratives, other rival discourses must be considered Manuscript profile