نقش دین‌پیرایی درون‌دینی در گسترش و تحکیم دین‌زدایی رضاخانی

Religious reform, which refers to the process of religious rectification and rituals, has participated in the emergence and development of political and social processes through its experts and theorists in Iran during Pahlavi era. The present study poses the question, "What role did the religious reform play in the making religiousness process of Reza Khan?"; has studied the relationship between internal religious reform and religiousness policy. This research has collected relevant data by using the documentary method and has started to analyze the research by adopting the historical research method. Internal religious reform that has been based on its focal foundations such as returning to authentic Islam, refining the holy text and returning to the Qur'an, the possibility of personal imagination in religion, the elimination of superstitions, and opposition to religious rituals; tried to formulate religious ideas in the geographical area of contemporary Iran and hastened to help Reza Khan's religiousness policy. Therefore, Reza Khan's religiousness policy by referring to his basis such as fighting against religion and religious rituals, confronting the dominant culture of the society and transforming formal symbols; and by exploiting the results of the internal religious reform, has facilitated the spread of internal religious reform in Pahlavi era and consolidated religiousness in Iran.