Construction of a Modifiable Belief (Analyzing the Meaning of Religiosity Amongst Shiite Students of Shiraz University)

This paper attempted to explore the meaning of religiosity amongst Shiite Students of Shiraz University. To do this, we selected 20 subjects aged 18 to 20 and conducted semi-structured interviews. Research findings demonstrated that the concept of ‘construction of a modifiable belief’ was prevail amongst the students. In addition to this core category, we extracted some main categories such as the quality of tendency to materialistic desire, the quality of experiences of traditional-modern procedures, the quality of dealing with the value of institutionalized religion, the quality of dealing with transcendental tools and values incompatible with institutionalized religion, redefining belief bases, human-centered religiosity, God-centered religiosity, and the fallacy of religiosity. In addition to the aforementioned findings, this article has a methodological innovation called the quasi-proses thematic analysis.