The position of religion and religion in the educational system of the first Pahlavi period

Subject Areas : Epistemological and methodological researcher of historical research

reza shabani ¹ , ghobad mansorbakht ² , farshid mehri ³

1 - professor/Ministry of Science
2 - professor/Ministry of Science
3 - teacher

Received: 2017-07-20 Accepted : 2017-12-16 Published : 2018-05-22

Keywords: Reza Shah Pahlavi, Planning, clergy, content of religious books,

Abstract :

What is studied in this article as the position of religion and the clergymen within the educational system and the First Pahlavi Era contains the materials that indicate the method of reaction of the first Pahlavi toward the clergymen within the education field and the position of the religion in planning and the context of the course books. Hence, the government was trying to renovate the educational system based on the ancient oriented nationalism and western secularism, the cultural system of the Pahlavi regime tried to decrease the presence of the clergymen in educational system and made some restrictions for them regarding the programs and the context of the courses of religion. Creation of a new Iranian identity based on focusing on the infrastructural institutes such as educational system, was the most important strategy of the first Pahlavi regime in order to homogenize the common people with the governing body. In this regard, extreme nationalism and western-based modernism were the most important ideologies of the first Pahlavi regime. As it was mentioned, the educational system was the most important context where the mentioned ideologies were executed. In order to achieve the ideological components, Pahlavi's most important actions were decreasing the role of the clergymen in educational institutes, the religion course books and the educational programs.