Abstract
The purpose of this research is to explain the pathology of Mahdism religious education and belief in Mahdism from the perspective of student teachers of Farhangian University. The method of this descriptive study is contextual and applied, and the research tool is a questionnaire and its sampling is a simple random method.
This research was conducted among female and male student teachers in six fields of Farhangian University of Arak (counseling and guidance education, education for exceptional children, English language education, elementary education, educational sciences, and Persian language and literature education) and in two groups of trained and untrained (in The topics of Mahdism) were implemented.
The results of questions 1 to 4 of the research showed that most of the students and teachers consider "fencing and fence-breaking, breaking and following, stratification and rationalism, superstition and demystification" as the harms of Mahdavi religious education and the best religious education is Mahdavi. based on the axes of "border studies, guidance, rationalization and the right to believe".
Holding conferences, meeting with religious scholars, providing useful and understandable resources with the aim of getting to know the Imam of the Time (Ajlullah Ta'ala Ta'ala Farja Al-Sharif) and familiarizing them with the duties and tasks in the age of occultation, creating research positions in the field of Mahdism by using participation and The cooperation of seminaries, holding foundation courses about Mahdism using competent and knowledgeable seminarians, cultural programs centered on the course of Mahdism studies are some of the suggestions of the present research.
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