Document Type : علمی - پژوهشی
Authors
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Associate Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran.
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PhD in Sociology, Department of Social Sciences, Shahid Chamran Ahvaz University, Ahvaz, Iran.
10.30471/mssh.2025.10668.2603
Abstract
Ali Shariati is usually known as a social thinker and sociologist in the field of religious studies, but in academic and university circles, his thoughts, ideas, and opinions have been less critically and scientifically discussed. Sometimes his opinions are raised under the courses of sociology of religion and historical sociology, but can his approach to religious studies be considered sociological based on the epistemological and methodological foundations of these two fields? The present article, which is a documentary study, has sought to answer this question. As a result of the positive criticism of Shariati's approach, it can be said that his approach to religious studies is not the sociology of religion but rather the sociology of religion, or in other words, a religious sociology (and not the sociology of religion), but his theory in this field has elements that can be expanded and developed to analyze some social, religious, and religious phenomena of today. On the other hand, his approach can be considered a subfield of historical sociology because he not only used sociological analyses and, in parallel, historical data, but also invented a method specifically for comparing historical periods, which can be used in comparative historical research.
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