جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « tendency to religion » در نشریات گروه « فلسفه و کلام »

One of the Western views which adopts a naturalistic approach to exploring the "origin of religion", regards "the fear of natural events" as the source of religion. Referring to the Quran and narrations, this paper seeks to explain the Quranic view on this issue and investigate whether or not the fear of natural events is the origin of religion, tendency towards religion, and one's commitment to its practical rulings, and what in principle, is the Quranic viewpoint about the answer to these three questions? After explaining the related concepts, the author divides the discussion of this topic into three parts which are as follows: the first, that is "the early development of religion", which considers that fear does not play any role in the development of religion, rather, its development if ascribed to, God and His will. But in the two other parts, namely, "tendency towards religion" and "adherence to religious injunctions", it is argued that although fear is not regarded as a fundamental factor , its role cannot be completely ignored.

This paper Studies the causes of human's tendency toward religion from Erich Fromm's point of view. There are different approaches to this issue: sociological, psychological and philosophical-theological. Fromm believes that two agents cause human beings to go toward religion: first, the need to common outlook and second, escaping responsibility. Since these two factors have been permanent in human history, his tendency to religion has been permanent too. Fromm believes that human's tendency to religion has had unpleasant results such as: establishing unjust and opinionated religious governments, emergence of religious scholar class who misused religious concepts, and multiple wars. Fromm's viewpoints on human's tendency to religion have been faced some objections. Common outlook is a result of Religiousness not a cause of tendency toward a religion. Escaping responsibility also is not a tendency agent toward a religion. For religion itself creates responsibility, and that is way some people do not accept any religion. Those unpleasant results which Fromm counted for religion cannot be generalized to all religions.