Rereading and interpreting the ideas of leading Muslim thinkers
mohammad soheilsarv
Abstract
Cultural engineering is a systematic look at culture and its regulation and management, which is considered a new approach to culture. This approach, along with cultural engineering expressed by Ayatollah Khamenei, can be an effective strategy for advancing culture. The aim of this research is to achieve ...
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Cultural engineering is a systematic look at culture and its regulation and management, which is considered a new approach to culture. This approach, along with cultural engineering expressed by Ayatollah Khamenei, can be an effective strategy for advancing culture. The aim of this research is to achieve the formulation of this concept based on Ayatollah Khamenei's thought. Therefore, the research problem is what cultural engineering is and its analytical formulation in Ayatollah Khamenei's view. This article was conducted using documentary methods in the data collection stage and content analysis in data analysis. The research findings show that cultural engineering, from his perspective, includes five main categories: supervision, guidance, growth, nature, and construction of culture. These categories interact with each other in a cyclical and dynamic process and it is not possible to separate them. Cultural supervision means controlling and caring for cultural processes, cultural guidance means directing culture towards the major goals of the Islamic system, cultural growth means developing and promoting the intellectual and spiritual foundations of society, the nature of culture as an endogenous and quality-giving movement, and cultural construction means creating a new culture in line with the needs of society. By comparing Ayatollah Khamenei's perspective with the approaches of liberalism and socialism, this article shows that he offers an intermediate solution between the liberation and complete control of culture. This approach not only respects the preservation of cultural freedoms, but also, through intelligent guidance and supervision, places culture on the path to the goals of the Islamic system.
