Sociological Analysis of Religious Tastes of the Iranian People

Subject Areas : ‌Family

abolfazl ahmadi ¹ , Mehrdad Navabakhsh ² , Abdolreza Adhmi ³

1 - PhD Student in Cultural Sociology, North Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran.
2 - Professor, Department of Sociology, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Associate Professor, Department of Social Sciences, North Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2019-07-13 Accepted : 2020-01-28 Published : 2020-03-18

Keywords: Religious Behavior, Religion, Religious taste, Religious communities,

Abstract :

This article is an exploratory research that seeks to explain the role of taste in the religious practices and practices of people in the society; for this purpose, by studying the documents, using the purposeful and selective inference, with 15 people from the seminary of Tehran And Qom also conducted a deep and semi-structured interview and the collected data was analyzed using a qualitative content analysis method. Some of the findings of this study are: Islamic customs and practices are of the taste of the religion, in such a way that individuals, in the light of their inner desires and attitudes, are placed in the religious and religious communities and can increase their religious capital by Choosing religious practices and practices that are fit for their inner taste and preferences will fulfill their religious duties with pleasure and reflect religious values ​​in society. Therefore, the behavior that falls within the scope of the religious demands of the people is the same as the Islamic customs that have a social image and, from the point of view of the cognitive society, are also objectified to the taste and taste of individuals.