نشریه پاسداری فرهنگی انقلاب اسلامی
پیاپی 10 (پاییز و زمستان 1393)

This research aims to make a big picture of this emerging phenomenon (Rahian Noor camps) using data-oriented theory by surveying the supreme leader’s statements, messages and advice on religious matters with regard to the areas of the sacred defense and Rahian Noor (the light of path). The research population includes all the supreme leader’s statements, advice on religious matters and messages. 84 propositions out of 36 statements and related messages with regard to the research topic were selected. 126 open codes (primary concepts) were identified by coding the selected propositions. 24 basic concepts were generated regarding the common content open codes. The results show that Rahian Noor camps were shaped by a group of sacred defense combatants in order to prevent the sacred defense period and pilgrimage to martyrs’ martyrdom places from oblivion that have been tuned into one of the biggest cultural operations with positive impact on public culture for a while. And now the governmental bodies, institutes and people-oriented groups should act in a way to promote Rahian Noor camps effectively. In the meantime, it is essential to pay attention to the pilgrimage of the pilgrims with wisdom, prevent the deviations of the sacred defense and Rahian Noor accidents.

This article aims to survey resources and components on Iran’s soft power in this legal document. After utilizing documents and quantitative content analysis, the researcher aims to answer this question that ‘what are the most salient soft power resources in the constitution of Iran and what factors are involved in it?’ The results of this article show that there are different kinds of cultural, political, economical and scientific soft power resources in this legal document. Among these factors, cultural resources are the most salient and frequent ones. Among these resources, spiritual values, protection of political-humanistic rights, supplying the basic needs of people and correct applied education are the most salient and frequent ones that can promote the soft power of Islamic Republic of Iran. In addition to these factors, there are other resources, such as Islamic-Iranian identity, political and cultural independence, religious beliefs, social consensus, foreign policy, self-sufficiency, lifting the deprivation, national production and the utilization of science and techniques in the constitution can promote the possibility to produce soft power.

In this article, the study, which is the result of the field research in a Delphi way, has been conducted to find the ways on making the culture of sacred defense effective. In this study, the views of the authors which published works on sacred defense were gained through three-step interviews and panel. Then, it was analyzed using statistical inference (factor and path analyses) based on Roman and Jakobson’s theoretical pattern. The researcher got 8 new factors or variables to recognize hidden and effective factors on the sacred defense works using factor analysis of 32 variables that have been determined by specialists are followed as: cultural planning, cultural policy making, implementation and the ways of receiving works, media tools, government supervision on works, the autonomy of professional authors, people-based monitoring, stability in the policies of governing body. In the next step, the researcher established six new variables by mixing propositions and variables stated by specialists, that is- 32 variables which are based on the analytical model of the research. The researcher determined that the effect of these variables on the variable of generation of the professional sacred defense works, then determined the effect of all of them on reception and satisfaction of the addressees.

This research has been conducted to achieve the pattern of Islamic-revolutionary values for promoting these values for future generations. It is the applied research based on descriptive-analytical data; both documents and questionnaires were used for data collection. The researcher-made questionnaire was used as an instrument for data collection in order to have an access to the viewpoints of elites and experts for validating the pattern. The statistical population consists of experts and professors in the areas of sociology, psychology, educational science, Islamic science and political science that 30 people out of them were selected for the study. The two-stage questionnaire was utilized to have the consensus of the elites. Mean and Freed man tests were used for the analysis of data and ranking the importance of aspects, pattern, indicators and components of the pattern respectively. Based on the results, the pattern of the Islamic- Revolutionary values includes 7 aspects of divine sovereignty, anti-oppression and fighting the enemy, overall independence, supporting the deprived and the poor, religious democracy, freedom and Islamic justice.

This research studies the concept of resistance economy, its goals, requirements and the clarification of cultural aspects using a functional pattern. In this research, our aim is to find the important position of culture in resistance economy. The concept of structured culture in the form of resistance economy has some angles that have been introduced and clarified in this research. The findings of this research show that culture and resistance economy are interdependent and it is determined that the goals of resistance economy are realized by means of tools which are the very cultural aspects in the domain of behaviour of economy. In fact, it is the culture that can realize the requirements and finally the goals of resistance economy.

The purpose of this study is to survey artistic discourses after the occurrence of the Islamic revolution and answer the question on variations, features and supervisory factors of these factors; therefore, the mixed method of discourse and content analysis with emphasis on qualitative studies has been chosen as the research methodology of this article. The results of this article indicate that the reasons for the extension of the Islamic revolution discourses to the cinema are seeking Islam, being indigenous, on one side, and being religious on the other side. Islamic revolution with regard to art of the cinema in proportion to its position has shaped 4 cinematic discourses-that is, recognizing, separating these discourses and revealing their features are the findings of this study. According to this process, the four indigenous, policy-oriented, goal-oriented and sacred defense-based discourses have been shaped through theoretical framework of Lakla and Mofeh’s discourse after the Islamic revolution, and the trend of their movement has continued from the beginning of the victory of the Islamic revolution with some fluctuations.

The aim of this article is to identify the soft threats to Islamic Republic of Iran with emphasis on media threats. In order to achieve the goal of this article, a descriptive and survey -based method was used in this article. 120 experts and elites were selected to have their views on the soft threats to the media with regard to political, economical, socio-cultural and security-based domains. Cronbach Alpha coefficient was used to determine the reliability of the questionnaire. The results of the respondents show 89% Cronbach Alpha coefficient which indicates that the questionnaire has a good reliability index. Freed man two-sentence test was used to rank and compare the impact of the soft threats to media in the political, economical, socio-cultural and security-based domains. The results show that the media threats have the greatest impact on the unconscious surrender of nations, their subservient to the will of the dominant powers in the political area,, on the ability of the government in supplying the needs and providing economic prosperity for the people in the economic domain, on the possession of the nation’s will and thought in the social domain, on the intensification of internal conflicts in the cultural area, on peaceful, gradual, creeping, quiet subversion in the security-based domain.