The religiosity of Iranian Jews in the last fifty years

Author:
Fahimeh Ashari
Level:
Master
Field of study:
Abrahamic religions
Language:
Farsi
Faculty:
Faculty of Religions
Year:
2021
Publisher:
URD Press
Supervisor(s):
Mehrab Sadegh Nia
Advisor(s):
Arash Abaie

The religiosity of the Muslim community of Iran, due to occurrence of the Islamic Revolution and the rise of religious government, has undoubtedly changed and increased in the last fifty years. Given the definition of religiosity based on religious beliefs and showsReligious prayers

the question remains whether this religiosity has had an impact on the religiosity of Iran’s minority communities, including the Jewish community of Iran? Since this search was a new survey and study, and also there was no source or hypothesis for this question, to find the answer, we referred to the Jewish community of Iran and used the interview method accordingly. For this oral interview, several Jews from the Jewish community were selected and a few questions were asked about their religious circumstances. From the answers in the interviews, other questions were raised and finally results were obtained from data analysis and conceptualization. The Islamic Revolution of Iran and the predominance of the religious government, considering the influence of the majority on the Jewish community of Iran and the subsequently seeing religiosity as a value, undoubtedly achieved the increase of religiosity and religious awareness along with security and religious freedom among the Jewish people of Iran. Another important issue is that despite the improvement of relations between the Iranian people and the Iranian Jews, there is still the mentality of spreading Zionist thinking to Iranian Jews, which is the result of cultural inefficiencies at the community level. And finally, the synagogue, as a place that is beyond a place just for worship, is the nucleus and survivor of Jewish communities in Iran and elsewhere in the world.