Religious knowledge and its Standards

Religious knowledge is deduced from religion through methodological and justified attempts. As a knowledge of the first order, this product is divided into various kinds such as ordinances, creeds, ethics, religious sciences and the like. External and rational study of such sciences is of the kind of "philosophies of" (philosophy of religion knowledge) and knowledge of the second order. Philosophy of religion knowledge studies the existing and realized sciences in the realm of religion rationally and externally (study of the second order). One of the issues discussed in the philosophy of religion knowledge is the standard for religiosity of knowledge. That is why the subject matter of the present article is of the kind of issues discussed in "philosophies of", a part of philosophy of religion knowledge, and a look of the second order at religious knowledge. In this article, the author has tried, at first, to study the nature of religion knowledge; then, in what follows, he explains the standard of its religiosity. Various standards have been posed and assessed for religious knowledge among which we may mention religiosity of the principles, contents, methodology, end, uses, sources, means and the like. In conclusion, through a final analysis, it has been said that a single item cannot be mentioned as a standard for religiosity; but rather, this term is applied to some kinds of knowledge equivocally. Similarities and dissimilarities between such kinds depend upon various points.