Partisanship and spiritual capital: Religion as spiritual capital in political parties after the Islamic Revolution from the 1980s to the 2000s

In the political sciences, parties are recognized as scanners and overseers of democracy. They pursue shaping public opinion, policy-making, training political cadres, pursuing social demands, facilitating the socialization process, turning indifferent and isolated citizens into active actors, monitoring and controlling political power in a peaceful and democratic environment. The religious nature of the government in Iran and the official proclamation of a particular religion have led political rulers to consider it an inalienable and current component of the overall political structure and government, and therefore to allow parties exclusively with ideology and practice in accordance with religious orders to work. The present study uses descriptive-analytical method and with the aim of explaining the manner and extent of the effect of religion on ideology and practice as well as the efficiency of political parties, the official parties of post-revolutionary Iran from the 1980s to the 2000s by studying and analyzing their statutes and ideologies. Examines and strengthens the network of social knowledge, scientific and research systems, the element of religion as spiritual capital as part of intellectual capital that includes a wide range of religious values ​​such as: honesty, commitment, motivation, etc. The result of this analysis shows that due to the political structure of society and the endless conflict between religion and politics and the inconsistency of sayings with the influential actions in this field, despite the frequency of religion in parties ideology  of mentioned period, in practice religion plays no clear role in programs and their social positions and functions, and it is necessary for the current parties to clarify their central or marginal position in party actions and reactions by explaining their relationship with the element of religion and the correct reflection of this position in the statutes and ideologies, align it’s pivotal or marginal place in party’s action and reaction in order to lead favorable activities and to facilitate party goals.