The Characteristics of a Religious Society and the Role of Education in Its Creation and Continuity

The aims of this research are to display an image of an ideal religious society by pointing out its special characteristics and the role of religious education in its creation and maintaining and continuing it. To achieve this aim, first, the concepts of ‘’religion’’, ‘’education’’, ‘’society’’ and ‘’ religious education’’ are explained, and then, the role and function of religious education in creating and continuing the religious society are investigated. The research is based on an analytical-documentary and library-based method. The research findings show that the religious society is a society whose social relation network includes economic, political, legal and cultural relations based on the values governing that religion and its teachings. Such a society can have religious and monotheistic education, when every institution and effective social factor can have an air of divinity and its perform their religious and monotheistic duty towards the people and society.