Muslim

Religiosity
Scale Presented to
Ma’am Nazia
Presented by
Manahil amir
Introduction
• ‘’Religiosity refers to people’s varying tendencies to commit
themselves to religious beliefs, principles, and activities’’.
• Research defines religion “as a complete way of life, the way of
thinking, ideology and way of actions that is not confined to beliefs
and ritual only”.
• The definition is looking at religion in total. It will include all aspects
such as political, economic, social, law and governance
 Description
• Muslim Religiosity scale was developed by Abdulaziz
Abdurrahman Albelaikhi.
• Religiosity is normally left aside in determining consumer behaviors
even though in many parts of the world, religions do affect
consumers’ behaviors and attitudes through a set of rules and
regulations.
• It is also used as an explanatory variable to account for differences
in the consumption habits of consumers in different parts of the
globe.
• It will depend on an individual commitment to adhere or not to
adhere or comply or not to comply to/with the rules and regulations.
Purpose
• This scale was intended to measure religiosity in the Islamic religious
belief system.
Components
• Four important components of religiosity were explicitly used to
generate items: belief, attitudes, practice, and knowledge.
• The belief component was intended to be measured as manifested in a
person's belief regarding the major concepts in the Islamic religion, for
example, belief in God and his existence, in Angels, Heavenly Books,
Prophets, the Hereafter, and in Fate and Divine decree.
• The attitudes component was concerned with the person's interest in,
and attitude (positive or negative, favorable or unfavorable) toward
religion, in general, and his/her attitudes towards religious authorities
and figures such as Allah, the Prophet, the Quran, religious people.
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• The practice component deal with the extent to which a person actually practices
the teachings of lslam and its commands. These practices include both obligatory
duties, for the performance of which a person is granted.
• The fourth component (knowledge) was considered and items were written to
measure the level of general knowledge a person has regarding some Islamic
religious issues.
• Belief and practice may be considered the two most important components in the
religion of lslam. They go hand in hand. No deeds are good or accepted if they are
not based on good faith in God and firm belief in his message.
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• Other additional, unspecified components were expected to emerge
from the items. But since the intended scale is meant to specifically
measure religiosity among Muslims, belief, attitudes, and practice
components were expected to be the best indicators of religiosity, from
the Islamic perspective.
Item construction
• The original item pool consisted of items from a variety of sources. Some were initially
written by the author, and others were taken, or their ideas were adopted, from some
already existing Muslim and non-Muslim religiosity scales, and discussions of religious
measurement.
• Scales and sources that have been utilized in this regard included:
• "Religiosity Level Scale" (Alsanie, 1989), "Religious Behavior Scale" (Taai, 1985),
these two scales were developed with and for Muslims.
• Other scales that were used generally with Christian populations included: "Religious
Orientation Scale" (Allport & Ross, 1967, Feagin, 1964), "Inventory of Religious
Belief'' (Brown & Lowe, 1951, "National Sample Questions on Religion" (Carroll &
Roozen, 1973), and "Religious Scales" (King & Hunt, 1975).