فهرست مطالب

Horizons of Thought
Volume:3 Issue: 1, Spring & Summer 2017

  • تاریخ انتشار: 1401/01/09
  • تعداد عناوین: 6
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  • Sayyed Mohammad Reza Hejazi* Pages 7-24

    There are two stages of interreligious dialogue, that is, political and academic, each of which has its own goals and requirements. The Holy Qurân presents an exclusive proposal of an interreligious dialogue that might be successfully fulfilled in the context of its methodological elements and prerequisite assumptions. The exploration of certain academic goals of interreligious dialogue according to the verses of the Holy Qurân is one of the preliminary aims of this paper. In addition, the Quranic prerequisite assumptions for an academic interreligious dialogue will be elucidated and analyzed in this research.

    Keywords: Dialogue, Interreligious Discourse, Mutual Understanding, Methodology of Dialogue
  • Sayyed Ahmad Rahnamaei* Pages 25-40

    There are many people all around the world dealing with at least one or more types of crises at present time. Most of the persons afflicted are those who especially suffer from the crisis of life-meaning due to their imperfect qualifications, less-experienced lifetime and deficiency of their knowledge. In addition to the above, many people experience stresses occurred to them through the significant concurrence or convergence of events that have ruined their concepts of life. In accordance with the Islamic world-view, the major conception of human life refers to one's understanding of the original meaning of existence as well as to one's perception of the wisdom behind the general creation. The Qur'an indicates how the major Divine Mission of the Messengers of Allah is to fight against all kinds of ignorance and negligence and furthermore, to support humankind in their confronting to any crisis before they are to be involved into that crisis. Trough the present writing, I am interested to reflect upon the aforementioned question and find out any adequate answer to this concrete question from within the Islamic resources.

    Keywords: Crisis, Life-meaning, Meaning Crisis, Meaning of Existence
  • Ali Mesbah* Pages 41-56

    One of the worldwide theoretical and practical challenges to the people living in the twenty first century is the problem of identity crisis. It is connected with the issue of globalization, which began, with a big hue and cry, by the final years of the twentieth century. Globalization as a cultural, social, economic, and political movement, is planned and carried out by dominating secular powers of the world, during which a “cultural surprise-attack” or the so-called “cultural invasion” is discharged in order to globalize the materialist belief-system, secular values, and hedonistic life-style. Since culture is the building block of the identity of a person, a society, and a civilization, a prerequisite for such an action-plan was to destroy the cultural infrastructure of the victim individual (or society) in order to pave the way for the alien culture to intrude, which mostly culminates in identity crisis. In this paper, I will examine the nature of identity (at both individual and social levels), its importance, transformation, and crisis. Then I will analyze the determinate factors in such a crisis, and bring the discussion to an end with proposing some Islamic-based solutions to identity crisis as one of the major problems of youth living in this period of human history.

    Keywords: Identity, Identity Crisis, Globalization, Islam, Youth
  • Abolhassan Haghani Khave* Pages 57-64

    In this study we have surveyed some of the leading factors that cause irreligion and immorality, including: weakness of religious insight, an unhealthy family environment, the association of pressure and violence with religion, tendencies toward carnal desires, the deviations of some outwardly religious people, and worldliness. We have also alluded to the fact that the Noble Qur’an itself displays sensitivity to these issues and counsels steps to counter these harmful factors, including: proper religious education, the cultivation of healthy families, tolerance and nonviolent methods for religious training, the curbing of carnal desires with the help of prayer, the wisdom to distinguish true religious teaching from the deviations of some who pretend to be religious teachers, and attention to the fact that the goal and meaning of life is not to be found in worldly attractions. All of these steps are essential to the task of self-training and the realization of one’s humanity that are taught by religion.

    Keywords: Escaping from religion, Youth, Counseling, Cyberspace
  • Mohammad Javad Tavakoli* Pages 65-96

    Nowadays many countries started to develop some models of economic education for improving the economic knowledge of precollege students. The typical model of economic education promotes a “neoclassical model” of rational economic behavior,” that leads to self-interest maximization. The promotion of a hedonistic logic of rational decision-making, however, might crowd out morality and spirituality as important teachings of religions. Looking for a spiritual model of economic education, we could form a dialogue between Christian and Muslim scholars on basic religious economic content standards. The current paper tries to explore an Islamic model of economic education and training and analyze its effect on spiritual development of children and youth. It is conjectured that the Islamic model of economic training is intended to improve spiritual rationality by the aid of some Islamic economic rules and policies. The Institution of Zakah, for instance, is intended to purify those who give this Islamic tax, whereas traditional taxes are obligatory and target no spiritual goal. Attention to the halal and tayyib (pure) income in the Islamic model of economic education and training is also a strategy for improving the logic of spiritual rationality in kids. 

    Keywords: Spirituality, Morality, Economic education, training, Islam, Youth
  • Saeid Mohammad Beigi * Pages 97-120

    Consumption management, by emphasizing the implementation of general policies to reform the consumption pattern and promote the consumption of domestic goods, which is one of the general policies of resistive economics, means that researchers in the field of Islamic patterns need a more accurate understanding of factors affecting consumer tendency to buy domestic goods. The main purpose of the present study is to examine how consumer attitudes towards a country in addition to all the variables affecting it, such as marketing, can affect its desire to buy imported or domestic products. The results of this study, which uses a critical comparative method, indicate that the variables affecting the consumption of domestic goods are divided into three categories: personality factors, demographic factors and price factors, each of which are influential in directing consumer behavior towards choice of buying domestic or foreign goods. In addition, the effective strategy in influencing these factors as much as possible on consumer behavior depends on potential capacities available in each of these three categories, which are discussed in detail in each section, and have consequences such as: maximum employment, consumption management, import substitution and the welfare of society.

    Keywords: Consumer behavior, Consumption culture, Domestic products, Ethnocentrism, Marketing, Consumption pattern modification