Religious Democracy; Simple or Compound?

The analysis of the kind of relationship between the components of the word ‘’religious democracy’’ has many effects on the nature of political system and way of managing it. If the combination of these two components is a kind of descriptive combination, religious democracy will have original identity, and thus, not only the democratic prestige of political system will not be in consistent with its religious prestige, but, it will also lead to establishing a kind of identity which is different from the political system in which democracy is based on the content of religion and is not borrowed from the West. Given this perception, people’s management in political system represents a special kind of democracy which, in addition to its being native and founded on the Qur’anic text, has the merits of democratic and theocratic systems and is free from the negative aspects which they have. In this political system, divine legitimacy and people’s acceptability are two sides of one coin and both of them are necessary for achieving a democratic political system. Considering this word combination as an adjunct composition implies accepting the idea of democracy which first appeared in the West and installing the religious content of this kind of government in Islamic system.