روحانيت سياست و دموكراسي

Clergy, Politics and Democracy

Since the Constitutional Movement, some intellectuals have posed two important objections for the presence of clerics in the sphere of the politics. Firstly, the main function of the clerics is the very understanding of religion and diffusing it; they have no function other than this and their entering the political scene would overshadow their main function. Secondly, when clerics are in power, they indulge in despotism. The present article criticizes such an approach, trying to defend the political nature of clerics and stressing on large numbers of democratic capacities among clerics by offering a novel theory.