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Ghaderi S, Ghasim T A. (2021). Social and Cultural Consequences of Religious Fundementalism in Afghanistan: From Reacting to Secularism to Reactionary Secularism. Social Problems of Iran. 12(1), 355-380. doi:10.52547/jspi.12.1.355
URL: http://jspi.khu.ac.ir/article-1-3443-en.html

The present article examines the social and cultural consequences of religious fundamentalism in Afghanistan. The main emphasis of the article is on the consequences of fundamentalism in the field of confrontation of the Afghan people with religion. The research method is a qualitative study that has been done using the interview technique. The Contributors are various educated groups, including professors, students, religious scholars, and journalists. The results have been tried to better understand this phenomenon by using the theory of analysis method and by drawing a paradigm model and narrative. According to the results, the most important social and cultural consequences of fundamentalism are: cultural conflict, cultural destruction and humiliation, hindering cultural development, promoting dogmatism, promoting social and ethnic violence and promoting gender discrimination. The most important consequences of fundamentalism in the field of religion and religious beliefs are: promotion of pessimism and despair of religion, reactionary secularism, liberating experience, promotion of corticalism, apostasy and promotion of inherited religion. The core category of this study was "reactionary secularism". A study of the causes of the spread of fundamentalism and its consequences in Afghanistan showed that the most important social consequence of this phenomenon in the field of religion and religious beliefs is reactionary secularism. Since, according to many theories and researches, fundamentalism is a reaction to the marginalization of religion, fundamentalism itself has contradictions and contradictions that result in reactionary secularism, and this extremism in itself produces extremism in the opposite direction.