چکیده:
One of the criticisms is usually leveled against measures of religiosity in our society is that most of these measures are not based on Islamic worldview. Since religiosity has different meanings on the basis of the contents of each religion، for a precise coining of a concept it is necessary to design indigenous models for every religion، including Islam. Among the models designed by Muslims to measure religiosity، one may mention MRPI، designed in Malaysia in 2007. Attempts have been made in the present study to normalize MRPI among Iranian youth and also to empirically compare it with the measures offered by Dr. Shojaizand and the measure borrowed from Glock and Stark models in a single population. The survey was conducted among the students of the University of Tehran. The sample constituted of 391 students. The findings of the research indicate that first of all the MRPI measure enjoys the scientific criteria of a scale; secondly، with regard to the degree of religiosity and relations between religiosity and background variables، the garnered data are almost equal for three measures. The Spearman correlation coefficients between the scores of measures confirm the high validity of the measures، to the extent that the MRPI’s correlation with Glock measure is 0.756 which is highly significant (s=0.000).
خلاصه ماشینی:
On one hand, from a methodological standpoint, most measures designed in Islamic societies, whether in Iran or elsewhere, do not possess the necessary validity and reliability; and on the other hand, designing a religiosity measure requires a deep and comprehensive understanding of religion and religiosity, so that we do not unintentionally lead to a place where we either exclude some religious people from its scope or consider the definition of religiosity so broad that we are led astray in our evaluation of the reality of the society's religiosity.
For example, Serajzadeh, in defining religiosity, expresses religious commitment as "a system of beliefs and behaviors that relate to the metaphysical dimension" (Serajzadeh, 2004: 59), or Shojaei Zand in the article "A Model for Measuring Religiosity in Iran" defines religiosity as: "having religious commitment in such a way that it affects the individual's attitudes, tendencies, and actions.
Table 1: Shojaei Zand's Religiosity Measurement Model (refer to the page image) Operational Definition of Glock and Stark's Measure During the decades of the 1950s and 1960s, in an attempt to understand and explain religion in America, Glock raised the discussion of the dimensions of religious commitment.
Table 2: Glock and Stark's Model (Sirajzadeh, 2004:62) General dimensions of religious commitment | Primary scales Creedal | Fundamental certain beliefs | Teleological beliefs | Enabling beliefs Ritual | Worship | Prayer | Fasting | Participation in specific sacred rites Experiential | Attention | Cognition | Faith | Fear Consequential | Effects of belief, action, experience, and religious knowledge in daily life Operational definition of the M.
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