Social Normalization Strategies in Religious Propagation

Document Type : Original Article

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Faculty Member, Research Institute of Islamic Culture and Sciences; PhD Student, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

10.22081/scs.2019.69225

Abstract

Among every religion and Shar’iah, effort is made through religious propagation for proving truthfulness, permanency and promulgation of its influential area. Religion of Islam is not exception to the rule and pays special attention to the type of religious doctrines and its behavioral aspects in social and personal life. In actuality, if religious beliefs and convictions can hardly result in its appropriate behavior and concerned by religion, it will be worth nothing. There might be various ways for materialization of religiously desirable behaviors and their growth, but it seems that the most effective ones are to create suitably normal and behavioral models through mechanisms which are made accessible by social studies. The whole activities are brought up within the concept of “social normalization” and this paper deals with recognition and introduction of its high capacity, particularly introduction of some of the practical strategies while looking into their link to religious propagation.

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