“There is a rise in secularization in the West and sometimes we see a return to the so-called Enlightenment era, which championed reason,” the Doctor of the Year said. Rebecca Masterton He made the remarks in a speech at the online seminar “Noble Families and the Challenges of Modernity” on Saturday.
“In the pursuit of objective truth, various European countries have abandoned their spiritual and religious traditions,” she added.
“Spiritual values provided the basis for fraternity in various European countries, but as an increasingly materialistic society was nurtured, European societies and cultures eventually largely forgot what spirituality is, what the training of the soul is,” she noted.
“From the outside, European countries may appear to be well-run and people are doing well materially, but when you get to the actual inner content of people’s souls, their thoughts and their day-to-day concerns, you find an emptiness at the heart of European culture,” Masterton says.
“This is starting to change little by little, maybe a little, as later Europeans are starting to realize what they’ve left behind, are panicking a little and are starting to go back to their cultural and spiritual roots,” she said, adding that “in some cases these cultural and spiritual roots go back to before Christianity.”
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With the Office of the Vice President for Women and Family Affairs of Iran IQNAThe seminar explored the need for a global movement to promote the family.
Iran’s Vice President for Women and Family Affairs Dr. Ensi Hazari and Tehran Municipality’s Director of Women and Family Affairs Dr. Maryam Ardebili spoke in person at the seminar.International scholars who spoke at the webinar were Dr. Rebecca Masterton, Dr. Rabab Sadr, Chairperson of Imam Sadr Foundation, Dr. Masoumeh Jafari, Director of Jameet Al-Zahra Pakistan, and Dr. Rima Habib, Director of Women’s Affairs Department of Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
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