Islām va ̒ulūm-i ijtimā̒ī (Apr 1391)
The Role of Religion in Personal and Public Beh avior of Students of Sharif University
Abstract
Many sociologists believe that the process of modernization in developing countries leads to secularization of individuals and religion, that is, religion loses its social role in shaping and normalizing affairs of public domain and enters into the individuals’ private realm. Whether such a process has happened among the new generation of Iranian students who were born during the peak period of modernization of society and lived in the most important institutional carriers of modern culture namely, modern schools and universities or not? To answer this question, the author of the present paper defines "the role of religion in personal behavior" and "the role of religion in public behavior" and puts them into a questionnaire and distributes among 84 to 91 students of Sharif University. Finally, it seems that religion not only has a weak function in public attitudes of students but it is losing its importance in shaping the behavior of individual students. %55 of them believe in individual jurisprudential precepts and only %26 favor the non-jurisprudential dimensions of religion.
