Studying the Norms of Religious Lifestyle: Explanation of Three Principles

Abstract

Various factors are engaged in broadening the culture and structures related to individualism, humanism and egoism which have provided humans with a uniform lifestyle leaving the religious in confrontation with their environs. In order to get out of this situation, the principles of a religious life must be read out and structured as ignoring any principle may have considerable qualitative and quantitative results. Considering the distinction between the sociological study and the religious dialogue about lifestyle, this paper, through a normative view deals with three principles: 1. Contentment, 2. Avoiding a Dissipating way of life, 3. Believing in the boundaries between right and wrong. As a result this article deconstructs the subject of ‘lifestyle’ and proves that without the above mentioned principles it is impossible to direct constructions based on the principles and to reform people’s mentality and education so as to establish a religious lifestyle.

Keywords

• a dissipating way of life
• contentment
• normative approach
• religious lifestyle
• right and wrong system