جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "پست مدرنیته" در نشریات گروه "علوم سیاسی"

Secularism in the Opinion of Western ThinkersDr. Abdul Rahman AlemReza NasiriAbstract:Although concepts such as secularization, mundane and worldly have similar meaning, there are some differences between them. However, the secularization has three characteristics: 1) decline in the role of religion to give meaning to the social sphere, 2) structural difference: there is a distinction between religious institutions and worldly institution, 3) transition from religious behavior and perception to worldly one. The secularism is inseparable from modernity. Modernity is a culture and religion and not similar to geography and history. Western modernization is so powerful to make everything similar to itself. So, divine religions would be faced with challenges by expansion of modernization. Secularism acknowledges the religion in the society, but it insists on its principles: 1) the religion has to be separable from politics and government 2) the religion has to acknowledge the exclusive authority of natural science, 3) the religion doesn’t have to rule over the people.

Secularism in the Opinion of Western ThinkersDr. Abdul Rahman AlemReza NasiriAbstract:Although concepts such as secularization, mundane and worldly have similar meaning, there are some differences between them. However, the secularization has three characteristics: 1) decline in the role of religion to give meaning to the social sphere, 2) structural difference: there is a distinction between religious institutions and worldly institution, 3) transition from religious behavior and perception to worldly one. The secularism is inseparable from modernity. Modernity is a culture and religion and not similar to geography and history. Western modernization is so powerful to make everything similar to itself. So, divine religions would be faced with challenges by expansion of modernization. Secularism acknowledges the religion in the society, but it insists on its principles: 1) the religion has to be separable from politics and government 2) the religion has to acknowledge the exclusive authority of natural science, 3) the religion doesn’t have to rule over the people.Key Words: Secularism, Worldly, Modernity, Postmodernity

In this article, both the cognitive and social grounds as well as the consequences of postmodern orientalism is investigated using the archival-analytic method. The discussion at hand is centred upon a cognitive approach to the different stages and periods of orientalism and proceeds by following the developments in ‘science’ and knowledge. While it is true that changes in the notion of ‘science’ during the last few centuries has affected the conceptualization and epistemological approach of orientalism, leading to a new humility and to the use of a more conciliatory language, it nevertheless appears to be the case that the West is striving to quietly revive the classical spirit of orientalism-one that looks at and marginalizes the East in a colonialist way-in this present period labelled as postmodern. The paper in hand applies itself to these themes and in the process alludes to some of the new approaches to orientalism as enunciated by figures such as Edward Said, Ziauddin Sardar, Leila Ghandi, Hisham Djait

Media (including books, newspapers & Journals/Magazines) is one of the most important elements in construction & institutionalization of modern identity. This paper will survey the role and importance of newspapers/journals in the national identity construct. For explaining the relations between these two variables, the following issues will be considered: •The construction of modern national communities & sympathy in the framework of loyalty to a “Nation” has a direct relation with their general development (which will be explained in the paper).• A general review/history of newspapers/journals and their different categorizations • Definition of national identity and its elements•How the development & expansion of newspapers/journals have positively affected on the modern society construct?To provide a theoretical framework for this survey, the paper has benefited from the ideas & theories of John Thompson, Jorgen Hubermas, Benedict Anderson, Harold Lasswel and Paul Lazarsfeld.

An investigation and analysis of different periods of war and also its nature and role among different societies is of paramount importance to sociologists and researchers of political sciences. The present research, in addition to conducting a study of the history of war and the changes it experienced in its nature among traditional, modern and post-modern societies, will make an assessment of a society's structural and cognitive changes; it will also try to delineate the role of war in shaping the identity of a society. The author chiefly aims at proving this important point that "We are still living in militaristic societies". In other words and contrary to the quite optimistic approach of modern age in doing away with war from the lives of people, we can constantly witness the more destructive forms of war and negative consequences that it leaves on world environment. This danger is so huge that it threatens the human race in the post-modern world. This research work will resort to various statistics and examples in objectifying the hypotheses it raised.

In today’s culturally and religiously diverse and pluralistic world, dialogue is necessary for mutual understanding and for proximity of the intellectual horizons to one another in order to reach understanding and accord – not to absorb and integrate one into another. The main thrust of the present article is to answer to the question whether human beings belonging to different cultures and civilizations can hold dialogue with one another. The author tries to answer the question in the light of theoretical approaches to modernity, post modernity, and hermeneutics. He refers to the holistic modernist as well as relativist postmodernist approaches.