The Relationship between Religion and Culture in Sociological Perceptions

The divine religions have a very rich and renewable capacity to produce and present a transcendent culture commensurate with the doctrinal capacities and goals and mission of this world to social human beings. Depending on the doctrinal capacity, social status, quantity and quality of lords, how they deal with Revelation teachings, opportunities and environmental constraints, etc. play a very absolute and decisive role in guidance and leadership, refinement, flourishing and excellence of capacities, protection and preservation, deepening and consolidation, validation and sanctification, etc. as well as customary cultures and its various components. Therefore, the relationship between religion and culture and how they interact, especially in the process of human's social history, has become a topic of interest for scholars of religions and sociologists. This paper seeks to analyze and examine the most important perspective adopted by sociologists of religion on how the two semantic systems interact. Accordingly, the main question is the real and possible relationships between religion and culture as two comprehensive semantic systems in the position of realization and social objectivity from a sociological perspective. The method of this study in the place of information collection is documentary and in the place of explanation and inference is qualitative content analysis. The findings of this study, as reflected in the implicit explanations and concluding summary, suggested that sociologists of religion, depending on their position on nature, reason, social status, function of religion and evaluation of these functions, have examined the relationship between religion and culture and proposed some viewpoints.