Role of religious education on decreasing environmental destruction trend at Guilan province, Iran

Human attitudes towards environment, to a great extent, result from human's being affected by celestial cultures, as one of the critical issues. Islam, as a religion that is beyond time and place, is able to meet all human needs at all eras and contains perfect contents, trainings and strategies about how to face and how be consistent with environmental phenomenon. Assessing different texts and documents of Islam represent existence of specific attitudes along with environmental and natural resources. The current study was undertaken in order to assess religious education on decreasing environmental destruction trends in Guilan province. Thus, some of the university's religious experts and seminaries of Guilan province were interviewed. We used this statistical method in order to analyze represented responses, since multi-response analysis is a good technique to analyze data resulting from open questions. Results showed that thoughts taken from Islam plays have important roles in keeping with the environment. In this regard, most important presented cases, by experts, were: considering consumption savings, identifying human rights and considering public resources, responsibility and management taken from religion in relation with surroundings, recognizing moral and religious values, futurism, considering next and future generations, love of god and thanksgiving, and also keeping God’s gifts, considering religious utterances, emphasizing violence decrease in religious education and its effects on environmental protection, importance given to Health and cleansing by Islam.