The relationship between religion and the public sphere in contemporary Western political thought. Model design for Iran.

Undoubtedly, one of the most important issues in the field of political thought in the public sphere is the relationship between the institution of religion and the public sphere. There is serious controversy among religious and secular thinkers about the nature of this relationship. The epistemological and historical experience of modernity shows that religion is beyond what we can reduce to ideology or to equate with secularism. In today's society, life has no meaning in itself, and one must think about how religious traditions can coexist in the public sphere. The point of this article is what role can institutionalized religion play in this? Can it open the door to dialogue in the public arena or does it prevent it at all? This article presents models of the relationship between institutionalized religion and the public sphere. Then, by examining three perspectives in this field, it tries to present a model that works for Islamic Iran by using the results of a comparative study between the mentioned models. And to free us from the double entanglement that either religion must take over the government or be reduced to the private sphere altogether. The method of this research is descriptive-analytical.