Religious Schemas, Styles and Quest in Young Muslim Adults: Implications for Religious Tolerance in Practice of Islamic Faith

Religious Schemas, Styles and Quest

Authors

  • Asad Hussain
  • Amina Hanif Tarar
  • Muhammad Ali Tarar
  • Fatima Murtaza

Abstract

The current study presents a relation between religious schemas and quest among young Pakistani
Muslim adults. Religious quest means search and openness in religion. Incorporating questions
relating to human existence and religious schema is a framework of meaning that traces an
experience in a religious context for its understanding. Religious schemas of truth of texts and
teachings (ttt), fairness, tolerance and rational choice (ftr) and xenosophia (xenos) correspond to
religious styles distinguished into fundamentalist, mutual, Individuative-systemic, and dialogical
types (Streib et al., 2010). Quest Scale and Religious Schema Scale was administered to a
convenient sample (N = 400) of 179 young Muslim men, and 221 women which revealed a
significant negative relationship between TTTand religious quest, and partially supporting a
significant positive relationship of quest with FTR and xenos. Proposal to moderate religious
tolerance through education is discussed.

Published

2021-02-20

How to Cite

Asad Hussain, Amina Hanif Tarar, Muhammad Ali Tarar, & Fatima Murtaza. (2021). Religious Schemas, Styles and Quest in Young Muslim Adults: Implications for Religious Tolerance in Practice of Islamic Faith: Religious Schemas, Styles and Quest. ASIAN Journal of International Peace & Security (AJIPS), 4(2), 140 - 148. Retrieved from https://ajips.org/index.php/ajips/article/view/2020-vol-4-religious-schemas-styles-and-quest

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 2 (2020): AJIPS 2020

Section

Articles