Ravanshenasi & Din

This paper is to explain the religious mechanisms that provideg mental health. To do so, it first looks briefly at the nature of mental health as viewed in different psychological schools and in Islam; then, it deals with those parameters of mental health admitted by western scholars too, and investigates the role of religion in realization of those parameters. In this article, the concept of mental health is evaluated by reviewing the definitions provided by different scholars such as Goldstein, Jahuda, Wentiz, Alport, Chahen, and various schools of biology, psychoanalysis, behaviorism, and humanism; then, the religion's mechanisms (such as worship and spiritual experiences and . . . ) to realize these parameters are mentioned.