Reflections on Religious New-Thinking in Contemporary Iran

On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the founding of Din Online, a meeting titled “Reflections on Religious New-Thinking and Religious Intellectualism in Contemporary Iran” was held at the Bashgah-e Andisheh (Thought Club). Mostafa Malekian, Hossein Houshmand, and Amir Maziar were present at this meeting. Abdolkarim Soroush was another speaker at the meeting, whose remarks were broadcast online.

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Meeting on Reflections on Religious New-Thinking in Contemporary Iran | Saturday, July 1, 2023

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First part of the meeting, remarks by Amir Maziar, Mohammad Reza Labib (Bashgah-e Andisheh), and Noura Nouri Sefat (Din Online)

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Second part of the meeting, remarks by Hossein Houshmand

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Third part of the meeting, remarks by Abdolkarim Soroush

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Fourth part of the meeting, Mostafa Malekian

I have noted down ten items, and I consider these ten items as ten questions that the project of religious intellectualism, or in other words the project of religious modernism, or even religious new-thinking, must answer in order for this project to be convincing for the human being of the early 21st century and for this project to be able to solve theoretical issues or resolve practical problems. None of these questions are ones on which I can express my own opinion. Although I have previously stated my own answers to almost all of these questions, here, regarding whether this project of religious intellectualism is a successful or unsuccessful project, I am not in a position of judgment..

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