Analyzing the Concept of Cultural Engineering throughout History

The expansion of the Western culture and globalization challenged many cultural entities of the world, including that of Iran, and thus shed spotlight on ‹culture› before several thinkers, elites and politicians all around the world. As a result, the term ‹cultural engineering› has been being profusely used in the cultural policy-making of Iran. As cultural modernity has managed to institutionalize its incorrect doctrine and values in the framework of the society, this survey aims at clarifying the term ‹cultural engineering› and its palpability in the society of Iran as well as analyaing the formation process of cultural modernity. By analyzing the history of modernity, it becomes clear that modernity is the result of the designation of key beliefs and their channeling through the values and the institutions of the Occidental society. With the presupostion of the together-ness of culture and religion in Islamic societies, and thus the innateness and non-devisability of Islamic values, one can say that ‹cultural engineering› in Islamic society is «the guidance of the Islamic beliefs and values within the society›s institutions in a way that they all represent Islamic values and beliefs.»