Students’ Perception of Globalization and Their Religious Identity

Subject Areas : Media Management

A.  Tajik ¹ (-)
Somayeh  tajik esmaeili ² (عهده‌دار مکاتبات)

Received: 2015-02-03 Accepted : 2015-04-03 Published : 2015-04-21

Keywords: Globalization, religious identity, students, Perception,

Abstract :

One of the most challenging issues of the modern world is the phenomenon of globalization, which has left impact on various aspects of individuals’ personal and social life. People’s religious identity is among the many factors being influenced by this issue. The current study aimed to explore the way students perceived globalization and its relationship to their religious identity. Three hundred and eighty four male and female university students at islamic azad university in tehran participated in the study. The results revealed a mean score of 3.6 for religious identity, indicating that the students had positive but relatively weak perception of religious identity. This means that the students’ religious identity is rather low though not negative. The highest score of 5.19 was obtained for students’ belief identity showing the point between strong and very strong in the scale.  In contrast while the lowest score of 2.62 was recorded for moral identity.  It was concluded that there is a positive meaningful relationship between students’ perceived religious identity and their view of globalization; implying that individuals with positive religious identity also view the issue of globalization as positively.