Social crises affect social cohesion, interpersonal relationships, and institutional functioning, underscoring the need to identify factors that contribute to social resilience.Religious social capital, through resources such as trust, solidarity, responsibility, and collective participation, can strengthen society’s capacity to cope with crises.This study aims to explain the mechanisms through which religious social capital enhances social resilience and to develop a theoretical framework for cultural policymaking.It adopts a qualitative approach using descriptive-analytical and documentary analysis methods.Data were collected and analyzed from Quranic verses, commentaries, hadith sources, works on Islamic social theology, and theories of social capital and resilience.The findings indicate that religious social capital can enhance resilience through three principal mechanisms:faith-based cohesion, religious meaning-making in crises, and the promotion of social participation and responsibility.By strengthening trust, solidarity, hope, empathy, and cooperation, these mechanisms increase the capacity for collective action and create more favorable conditions for crisis response and the maintenance of social functioning.Furthermore, the late Leader of the Islamic Revolution’s views on faith, universities, and social responsibility offer insights for articulating the cultural implications of this framework.Accordingly, incorporating religious social capital into cultural policymaking may help strengthen social resilience, although further empirical research is needed to determine the extent of its effects.