Nature of Religious Commitment Among the Muslim Youth

Sumi Rani Saha,Eashrat Jahan Eyemoon

doi:10.5296/jsss.v8i1.17340

Abstract

By applying Glock’s multidimensional concept of religiosity, the study aims to explore the nature of religious commitment among youth by conducting a quantitative study among 254 Muslim students from different departments of Social Sciences faculty and also Science and Engineering faculty at University of Barishal, Bangladesh. The findings of the study show that majority of the respondents who belong to young generation are strong at their ideological and experiential dimension of religiosity. But in ritualistic and consequential dimension their position is not significant at all. They are more believer than a performer. Besides their exposure in the intellectual dimension of religiosity is in moderate level.

Highlights

As the meaning of religion differs from man to man, and even within the same religious doctrine, in the same way the importance of religion in individual’s life varies from one person to another person depending on their age, sex, mind set up and social, economic and cultural contexts
The following table shows that the nature of experiential religiosity among youth is very strong with a majority (97.6 percent) of the respondents feel the presence of Allah and 97.2 percent have a sense of being afraid of Allah and a wish to go to the pilgrimage to Mecca. 96.1 percent of the respondents have a sense of being accountable to Allah, while 95.7 percent of the respondents has ever felt a sense of being rewarded by Allah and 95.3 percent have a feeling of being gone to heaven for leading life honestly
Religiosity is not found within an individual with its whole frame

Summary

Introduction

As the meaning of religion differs from man to man, and even within the same religious doctrine, in the same way the importance of religion in individual’s life varies from one person to another person depending on their age, sex, mind set up and social, economic and cultural contexts. Each and every religion has some religious beliefs, practices, symbols and. When people follow certain religious beliefs and rituals, sometimes, they are regarded as religious in a general sense. Being religious in one aspect does not lead to pietism in all other aspects (Hassan, 2005). People who follow obligatory Muslim rituals, sometimes, derogate and doubt about their fellow Muslim's religiosity (Hassan, 2005). People’s religious commitment can best be realized by noticing their behavior in the religious aspects and in all other aspects of life (Hassan, 2005)

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