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Dear Monica,

A religious person does not have to be a clergyman, clergymen who specialize in divine science.

Best Wishes,

Mohammad.M.Davar

Monica Sarai Ramirez

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Dear Dr. Monica,

This might be of interest :

How Can Bunge’s Scientific-Humanistic Ethics Engage Islamic Moral Law?

• July 2019
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-16673-1_28

• Chapter How Can Bunge’s Scientific-Humanistic Ethics Engage Islamic ...

Behavior and treatment is the best measure of religiosity, and this is why Islam determined this matter by saying the Messenger Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace (the treatment religion).

Hope this article will be useful for you.

Iddagoda, Y.A. and Opatha, H.H.D.N.P., 2017. Religiosity: Towards A Conceptualization and An Operationalization. Sri Lankan Journal of Human Resource Management.

Iddagoda and Opatha (2017) wrote:

Categories of Religiosity

The researchers define five categories of religiosity, namely, very high religiosity, high religiosity, moderate religiosity, low religiosity and very low religiosity.

Very high religiosity: People in this category participate excessively in religious activities. Their belief in a religion is very high. Also, they have a very positive feeling and respect for religious personages (monks, priests, sadhus, etc.). They follow customary religious ceremonies on important occasions in their lives. In the case of Sri Lankan Buddhists this is similar to holding an alms giving on important occasions, such as the building of a new house, on a child’s first birthday, prior to a marriage and on the death anniversary of a loved one. They also go to religious shrines regularly, not only on days of religious significance but on other days as well.

High religiosity: Participation in religious activities is at a high level. Their belief in a religion is high, but less than in the very high category. They go to religious shrines only on the days which have a religious significance. For instance, a Buddhist goes to temple only on full moon Poya days. A Christian goes to church on Sundays.

Moderate religiosity: They believe in a religion in a moderate level. Therefore participation in religious activities of these people is moderate. They go to the religious shrines only on the days which have a higher religious significance. For instance a Christian who does not go to the church on every Sunday may go to the church only for Easter, Good Friday or Christmas. A Buddhist who does not go to the temple on every full moon Poya day goes to the temple only on Vesak Poya day (the most important full moon Poya day which commemorates the birth, enlightenment and death of The Buddha).

Low religiosity: Participation in religious activities is at a low level since their belief in a religion is low. They rarely go to religious places. They attend religious ceremonies as a commitment. For instance, they just go to an all-night pirith chanting ceremony in their neighborhood because they must go; in other words, due to commitment. (Pirith chanting is an ancient practice. Discourses of the Buddha are recited at all-night pirith ceremonies).

Very low religiosity: Their belief in a religion is at a very low level. They would say, “I have no religion and I’m an agnostic.”

This is an ABSTRACT taken from a PDF of an article done in July 2015:

Although hundreds of measures of personal religiousness and spirituality exist, none are capable of reliably and validly assessing individuals who identify as nonreligious and nonspiritual. There is a need to develop a valid and re reliable measure of (non) religiousness and (non) spirituality. This article discusses these problems and presents the development and initial validation of a 17-item Nonreligious-Nonspiritual Scale (NRNSS) across three studies.

The NRNSS exhibited high internal consistency (a>.94) and high test-retest reliability (r=.92). Two exploratory and one confirmatory factory analysis of the NRNSS supported the hypothesized two-factor solution: (a) institutional religiousness and (b) indiviualistic spirituality. The NRNSS also demonstrated convergent validity through theoretically-expected correlations with established measures of religiousness and spirituality (the Cross-Cultural Dimensions of Religiosity, Humanistic Morality, and Traditional Religious Morality scales). In summary the NRNSS may work as an initial attempt to address the limitations of other scales for capturing how religious/nonreligious/nonspiritual individuals are.

The title of the above ABSTRACT is The NonREligious-NonSpiritual Scales (NRNSS): Mearsuring Everyone from Atheists to Zionists.

1- Measuring spirituality or religiousity is an overt biass.

2- Reduction of a qualitative phenomena to a quantitative variable is the main methodological and epistemological errors.

3- Comparison of spirituality or religiousity among different persons is impossible.

4- Each person's worldview should not be ignored in related studies.

5- Pre-post test studies are more appropriate than case-control or trials surveys.

6- Interpretive studies of spiritual or religious phenomen are recommended.

7- Spirituality and religiousity are different from spiritual or religious practices.

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