A comparison of religious behaviors and attitudes between Japanese and Moslem graduate students

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  • 日本人大学院生とイスラム教徒大学院留学生の宗教意識・行動の比較
  • ニホンジン ダイガクインセイ ト イスラム キョウト ダイガクイン リュウガク

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Forty Moslem foreign graduate students working in Japanese universities as well as their 33 Japanese colleagues responded to a questionnaire. It consisted of 58 items tapping behaviors and attitudes that had been predicted to be shared among the majority of Moslems. Subjects responded if each item is true for them. On the assumption that characteristics of a culture are reflected by widely shared behaviors and attitudes which are so spread in the culture that their existence is seldom recognized consciously, we focused on those behaviors and attitudes that were shared among the majority of Moslems (or Japanese). Behaviors and attitudes shared by the majority of Japanese and seen by Moslems as representing lack of religious belief were clarified. It was also found that after two years there was likely to be a turning point for the Moslems in their adaptation to Japanese society, after which they entered a re-adjustment stage by relying more on Islamic belief as a general principle of their daily lives.

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