Theories of Sociologists of Religion on the Origin of Religion with an Islamic Approach (A Paradigm Critique)

Sociological analysis of the origin of religion is one of the fields of extra-religious studies, the achievements of which are usually considered in opposition to intra-religious ideas. The problem of research is the evaluation of the findings of sociologists of religion from the perspective of religious thought. In this regard, with a descriptive-analytical method, the main axes of some religious sociological ideas have been evaluated according to the principles of Quran and Hadith. The research findings indicate that the most fundamental concerns that have led sociologists in the modern age to confront religion are based on the three axes of materialistic ontological paradigm, anti-revlational sensory epistemology and evolutionary anthropology. From a religious point of view, the unseen itself is an important and essential part of existence, and the intellect itself is an intra-religious argument; as understood in the study, man and religion may not be taken as a product of evolution. Rather, they both originate from the unseen and immaterisl world.