Ma`rifat Farhangi Ejtemaei

Unlike classical sociologists, Giddens considers the origin of religion as a reaction to meaninglessness and considers "giving meaning" as one of the most important functions of religion. Examining the consequences of modernity, he is concluded that religion can inspire a better world in the era of late modernity, if committed to dialogue and rethinking. Using the model of topic interpretation with an "inferential" approach in interdisciplinary interpretation, this paper has investigated this issue. Although this theory is considered among the theories of religious spiritualism and the closest interpretation to Islamic thinking in terms of religion answering the questions of modern man, but in terms of foundations, method and general orientation, it has fundamental flaws, some of the most important of which are: assimilating the identity of different religions, neglecting the divine origin for monotheistic religions (including Islam), planting the roots of religiosity instead of the origin of religion, negating the innate nature of religiosity, reducing the truth of religion to mere material affairs, paying attention to functions instead of the essence of religion, inappropriate generalizations and interpretation of its results on other religions (including Islam), and a limited explanation of the meaningfulness function of religion.