Investigating the effect of the mosque on reducing social harm Case study: Tehran city

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Research Instructor, Department of Cultural Sociology, Institute of Culture, Art, and Architecture, Iranian Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research (ACECR), Tehran, Iran.

2 PhD Candidate, Department of Social Welfare, Faculty of Social Sciences, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

Mosque, as the most original cultural institution born from religious thought, has many latent capacities to play a role in the field of civilization of Islamic society.one of the main indicators of modern Islamic civilization is ethics, justice and rule
This research, with the aim of investigating the research topic, conducted a field survey of the status of mosques in terms of the number, participation rate and citizens' satisfaction with the mosque and the social capital of the mosque in the neighborhoods of the 22 districts of Tehran, and then separated the damage and social issues into three areas. Crime, abnormality, and social deviance measured the way of attitude and thinking of the citizens of Tehran towards harms and social issues.
The method of investigation in this study will be the secondary analysis method. In order to achieve the purpose of the research in this study, the data of "Tehran Quality of Life Monitoring Survey" was used. In the study, in addition to emphasizing the statistical topics to describe and analyze variables for a better and clearer picture of the 22 districts of Tehran, spatial analysis was also used.
The findings of the research show that there is a significant relationship between the level of participation in the mosque, the satisfaction and social capital of the mosque with the attitude towards harm and social issues.
It can be concluded that the mosque is the first step to realize the indicators of Islamic civilization, the mentality of the citizens in each neighborhood in comparison with other citizens who participated less in the programs of the mosque and their level of satisfaction and social capital with the mosque is low, compared to The existence of damages and social issues has a negative approach and makes them more concerned about their solution.

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Volume 4, Issue 13 - Serial Number 13
Spring 1404
May 2025
Pages 103-133
  • Receive Date: 06 May 2024
  • Revise Date: 10 November 2024
  • Accept Date: 10 March 2025
  • Publish Date: 21 April 2025