Based on an analytical, theoretical and critical approach, the current study seeks to critically examine the existing approaches concerning the possibility of producing religious science. Accordingly, the "refinement" approach, endorsing the general framework of modern science, seeks to establish the ...
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Based on an analytical, theoretical and critical approach, the current study seeks to critically examine the existing approaches concerning the possibility of producing religious science. Accordingly, the "refinement" approach, endorsing the general framework of modern science, seeks to establish the interaction between science and religion via correcting and completing scientific propositions. The approaches which insist on founding a religious science, are themselves divided into the foundationalist and meta-foundationalist approaches, and conceive the production of religious science to be contingent upon a comprehensive transformation in modern science. The common element of all approaches,which insist on founding a religious science from the scratch, is the idea of development of new sciences based on the production of the foundations of science from the sources of religion and based on an Islamic worldview.The foundationalist approach is of the view that the fundamental basics of the humanities, in the areas of ontology, anthropology, epistemology, are derived from the material and secular philosophies and they are parted from the Invisible World, and thus they are required to be revised based on the Islamic worldview. But the meta-foundationalist approach contends that science is the outcome of the relationship between man, the universe and the transcendental God. The man who has defined his or her relation withthe world and God based on his/her own existence does not have a holy reason. To reform science, we must change the universal hypotheses and ruling ideologies. At the end of each of these approaches are evaluated
