Counteracting the process of secularization in Iran Emphasizing the capacities of the family institution

The issue of secularization is one of the most important issues of contemporary societies, including the Iranian community, which has attracted considerable attention from sociologists of religion. However, approaches to this issue are generally descriptive and explanatory approaches, and hardly any interventional ones can be identified in this field. This article, with an interventional approach and with regard to the foundations and skills of policy-making, has attempted to analyze the capacities of the family institution in counteracting the process of secularization in Iran. To this end, based on a comparison between the factors of secularization and family functions and after determining the six goals of expansion and consolidation of the marriage tradition in society, improving the sexual relations of the spouses, improving the spouses' emotional relationships, empowering the families to fulfil their supporting functions, reforming the culturalization model in the family and becoming more effective the controlling mechanisms of the family, this paper discusses the policy strategies to counteract secularization through the seven parts of education, counseling, treatment, support, culture creation, legislation and supervision.