Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• masoud hadjizadehmeimandi ¹
• sima Eskandari ²

¹ assistant professor

² yazd University

Abstract

Religious rituals are one of the elements of religious culture in any society. Women's weekly Quran meetings as one of these religious rites have a long history and have been reproduced due to their functions. The purpose of this study is to qualitatively analyze the women's weekly Quran meetings in Kashmar to examine the motivation of holding and participating in these meetings and the different dimensions of the weekly Quran meetings, the consequences, the views of others, and the strategies. The data of this qualitative research was collected through semi-structured interviews with 15 women participating in these meetings and coded and analyzed using the grounded theory method. This research shows that various factors played a role in creating the central category, that is, "representation of the religious identity structure of women's religious assemblies". The conditions that make women attend these gatherings are their true beliefs about God and the religion of Islam. Contextual factors, intellectual alignment, and intervening factors provide the conditions for the presence and stability of these meetings in the construction of the identity of women's religious assemblies. Strategies such as ethics and human respect and improving participation in women's religious gatherings cause more women to attend these religious gatherings. These religious gatherings bring various consequences such as rethinking the structure of religion and individual religious experiences. All these factors are an attempt to represent the religious identity structure of women's religious assemblies, which is the central category of the paradigm model of this research.

Keywords

• Grounded Theory
• Religious Culture
• Religious Rituals
• Weekly Quran Meetings
• Women

Main Subjects

• علوم اجتماعی