Typology of religiosity in the some award_winning novels of Iran: (A case study of the Hooshang Golshiri Award and Haft Iqlim Award Winners up to 2018)

The present research intends to study religiosity studies with a sociological approach. Among axes of religiosity studies, it has been taken the typology of religiosity and analyzed the types of religiosity in the selected Iranian literary novels with a focus on the winners of Houshang Golshiri and Haft Iqlim literary awards up to 2018. To achieve this goal, the model of Hassan Mohaddesi was used as a conceptual framework of the research. The efficient conceptual framework in explaining the present study is a hexagonal model. According to this model, there are six types of religiosity in Iranian society: emotional, mystical, ritual, sharia-oriented interpretation, individual moral, and social moral.

The types of religiosity of the characters in the selected novels of these two literary awards from 1380 to 1397 have been classified with this model and in the analysis of the findings, the semiotic method has been used. The results of this study show that in these novels, whose authors’ narratives from the religious life of the characters are different – sometimes descriptive and sometimes judgmental -are spoken more about emotional religiosity, ritual and sharia-oriented religiosity and few characters have mystical and moral religiosity.