Enlightenment and the issue of spirituality: (Investigating the role of enlightenment in the emergence of modern spirituality)

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1 Azazd islamic universirty chalous branch

2 political science department azad islamic university chalous brancch

3 political science group, faculty of law, theology and political science, research and science branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

10.30465/cps.2022.41190.3013

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This study, with its basic / theoretical content; With a descriptive-analytical method based on a conceptual theoretical framework, with the problem of "modern enlightenment and spirituality", is responsible for answering the question that: enlightenment; With elements such as wisdom, the idea of progress, natural religion, how did it give rise to the emergence of modern spirituality in the West ?

The result is: Enlightenment with the transition from three different historical traditions (early High; and late) in three traditions (English / French / German) with three approaches: religious uplift, enmity with religion, and the transcendence and deepening of religion, The basis of the four tendencies / Deism / Fideism / Religion of the heart / Atheism in the context of Western modernity relies on (rationalism, pluralism / religious tolerance / desecration / denial of the revelatory aspect of religion / denial of the Lordship of God in the form of a metaphor of the watchmaker God .. The emergence of modern spirituality in the form of two slogans “(spirituality Not religion- -spirituality Not dependence)” has caused the emergence of modern spirituality.

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Contemporary Political Studies
Volume 14, Issue 1
April 2023
Pages 1-30

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