Religion and its Educational Function in the Contemporary Global Village. The Islamic Perspective

The quality of intersubjective communication in today's world, which is different from the past world, due to the development of communication tools and technology is so wide and deep that spatial distances have become almost unaffected. Then the question arises if we can talk about the educational function of religion in such a world. The general explanation of this function is that the religious educational system realizes educational goals by keeping people away from particular conditions and places which are against the goals of education. In today's world, where it has become difficult, in fact almost impos- sible to keep people away from certain situations and places, how can religion have an educational function. Religious educators, traditionally, attempted to fulfill educational goals by imposing certain conditions and principles. The purpose of this article is to ex- amine this problem from the Islamic perspective. The author tries to display why in the contemporary global village there is no conflict between the educational function of reli- gion and the structure of intersubjective communication.