Educational pathology of tendency to appearances of religious symbols

Abstract

The aim of this study was the pathology of superficiality in the face of religious symbols.The holy characters, acts, objects, places and tenses which are sacred to the followers of various religions and in some way linked to their social customs are named religious symbol. Regarding the role and place of religious symbols in educational and educative programs the question is what harm does the tendency to appearances of religious symbols in collisionof religious symbols and sufficiency with the appearance of these symbols do to religious education? this article wants to study consequences of tendency to appearances of religious symbols and points to examples of this trend in the Quran and narrations and try to check the damages of this phenomenon by text analysis method and in some cases, logical analysis. According to the research findings, when the appearance of a religious matter becomes more important in front of its interioror backbone, and people's efforts are focused only on its appearance, the religious affairs is threatened and seriously damaged and several pests threaten it: Neglect of important religious duties, dominate of unqualified peoples for religious affairs, establishing harmful contact with humans and objects, annoying the elders of religionand reduce their energy, promoting habits and misconceptionsand desecrate to symbols are the most importantof them.

Keywords

• religious symbols
• cultural pathology
• educational pathology
• religious education
• apparent