Islam va Pazhuheshhaye Tarbiyati

As the most prominent of current disciplines in anthropology, education and psychology are dependent upon each other. As the most conspicuous domain of educational values, religious education is inspired not only by reliable religious doctrines but also by psychological elements of religion and psychology of values. A real religious education helps one find out the real object of worship and feel obliged to worship it, through discovering clear examples of spiritual tendencies. Making contacts with the Creator of these innate tendencies towards perfection and prosperity is possible only through religious education in its exact sense. Religious education, in turn, plays an important role in strengthening, forming and orienting motivations, emotions, tendencies, instincts and instinctive behaviors. In religious education, one can study the role of factors such as instincts, motives, emotions and tendencies. In order thus to play its relevant role effectively, each one of the above-mentioned factors occupies its own especial place impact and order in religious education.