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The Religious Institution’s Role in Spreading the Tolerance Culture

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Abdullah Rajeh Hameed,Dr. Salah Kathem Jabir

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The development and complexity of life and the specialization in human knowledge have created the urgent need for a religious institution. Therefore, the presence of a central religious institution in a homogeneous society gives it an incomparable power of influence on the one hand, and gives society the ability to bind its members to religious teachings, which increases steadily as the interaction between the institution and the rest of institutions increases. On the other hand, the social structure, the awareness of those in charge of managing the religious institution, and their comprehension of the reality of the message of Islam and the reality of the influence of social change must play a role in the religiosity of individuals and their goals and their awareness of what society expects from the religious institution of effective positions influencing social life, especially in the face of major deviations and changes in the social, cultural, economic, and political life Otherwise, the religious institution will turn into an institution with an existence that is isolated from the affairs of society and state, which makes it a symbolic institution that grants the instrument of forgiveness to the one who is able to pay its price, as indicated by Muhammad Baqir Al-Sadr.

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