Religious identity and lifestyle

The study considers relationship between religious identity and lifestyle of Shiraz youth. At first we reviewed studies in this issue; then based on the ideas of Giddens, seven hypotheses were presented. To test the hypotheses, 560 young people aged between 15 and ¬ 29 were selected by multistage random sampling. The method of this study was using questionnaire. The results show that the correlation between some variable lifestyle and level of religiosity and religious identity is a meaningful relationship. The results of the regression analysis show that respectively virtual network variables, religion style, media, responsive foreign income, local writing media, being single, new technologies and new leisure and cultural style explained a 52 percent change in the dependent variables. This study suggests that the strengthening of religious beliefs and religious life has significant positive impact on religious identity.