Religious Paradigm Extracted from Religious Texts

In Islamic societies research about religion and religiosity is of a prime importance. In this project investigators have explored factors of religiosity with reviwing verses in Quran, prophet's (S. A) tradition, studying Islamic culture, and behaviors of people in Islamic societies. These factors have been used in developing a religious scale that can be used in psychological, and sociological, as well as mental health studies. The aim of this study was to explore components of religious attitudes that can be used in scale development. This study has the advantage of looking at the religion from the perspective of religion. The method of the study was descriptive-analytic, and the procedure included studying three categories of Quranic verses and traditions: a)key words dealing with religiosity b)description of religious individuals, and c)behaviours and perspectives that are not included in religiousness. In exploration of indices of religiosity we found that three axises in religiousness are very important: 1) Knowing and believing in what is necessary to faith. 2) Having affection, toward God, his prophets, offsprings of prophet Muhammad (S.A), acceptance of velayat (offering unconditional love to the prophet and his offsprings). 3) Moral behaviour, obidence of God, rituals, and avoidance of sin, and moral impurities. Therefore, extracted components are categorized in three dimensions: cognitions, belief system, affections and feelings, as well as behaviours. In the article, we have devoted spaces discussing these components and limitation of the project.