The Relationship Between Death and Religion in Cultural Scripts on Death and Dying Among the Sample of Tehran Residents
This article aims at understanding ordinary Tehran residents’ attitudes towards Death and Dying and recognizes the relationship between Death and Religion in their thoughts. Using Grounded Theory as method and semi structured interview as a technique, we reached to nine different Cultural scripts of...
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| description | This article aims at understanding ordinary Tehran residents’ attitudes towards Death and Dying and recognizes the relationship between Death and Religion in their thoughts. Using Grounded Theory as method and semi structured interview as a technique, we reached to nine different Cultural scripts of death and dying among interviewees, including: fatalistic death, resurrection-oriented death, martyrdom-oriented death, mystical death, secular death, aesthetic/nihilistic death, agnostic death, and ambiguity-oriented death. Furthermore, we recognized religious and non-religious cultural scripts besides the rationalization and individualization of religion among them. According to our findings, there is no accordance between some interviewees’ thoughts and beliefs with their behavior and lifestyle so that one cannot guess people’s attitudes towards death and dying from their behavior or their appearance. In other words, we face no structural Homology between their ideas and their lifestyle. Moreover, most interviewees had mixed ideas and beliefs about death and dying, and it can indicate the social and cultural complexity of Tehran society. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8cd22d5875b54d53a3c9d78631712bc62023-02-01T12:46:39ZfasIranian Institute for Social and Cultural StudiesTaḥqīqāt-i Farhangī-i Īrān2008-18472476-50582016-12-01939111710.22035/ijcr.2016.322322The Relationship Between Death and Religion in Cultural Scripts on Death and Dying Among the Sample of Tehran ResidentsSare Mazinani Shariati0Reza TaslimiTehrani1Associate Professor of Tehran UniversityPhD in Cultural Sociology. The University of Tehran.This article aims at understanding ordinary Tehran residents’ attitudes towards Death and Dying and recognizes the relationship between Death and Religion in their thoughts. Using Grounded Theory as method and semi structured interview as a technique, we reached to nine different Cultural scripts of death and dying among interviewees, including: fatalistic death, resurrection-oriented death, martyrdom-oriented death, mystical death, secular death, aesthetic/nihilistic death, agnostic death, and ambiguity-oriented death. Furthermore, we recognized religious and non-religious cultural scripts besides the rationalization and individualization of religion among them. According to our findings, there is no accordance between some interviewees’ thoughts and beliefs with their behavior and lifestyle so that one cannot guess people’s attitudes towards death and dying from their behavior or their appearance. In other words, we face no structural Homology between their ideas and their lifestyle. Moreover, most interviewees had mixed ideas and beliefs about death and dying, and it can indicate the social and cultural complexity of Tehran society.http://www.jicr.ir/article_322_0285190a0e1bbedff73f8a1e1988ea0a.pdfdenial of deathindividualization of religionrationalization of religionmixed ideascultural complexity |
| spellingShingle | Sare Mazinani Shariati Reza TaslimiTehrani The Relationship Between Death and Religion in Cultural Scripts on Death and Dying Among the Sample of Tehran Residents Taḥqīqāt-i Farhangī-i Īrān denial of death individualization of religion rationalization of religion mixed ideas cultural complexity |
| title | The Relationship Between Death and Religion in Cultural Scripts on Death and Dying Among the Sample of Tehran Residents |
| title_full | The Relationship Between Death and Religion in Cultural Scripts on Death and Dying Among the Sample of Tehran Residents |
| title_fullStr | The Relationship Between Death and Religion in Cultural Scripts on Death and Dying Among the Sample of Tehran Residents |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Relationship Between Death and Religion in Cultural Scripts on Death and Dying Among the Sample of Tehran Residents |
| title_short | The Relationship Between Death and Religion in Cultural Scripts on Death and Dying Among the Sample of Tehran Residents |
| title_sort | relationship between death and religion in cultural scripts on death and dying among the sample of tehran residents |
| topic | denial of death individualization of religion rationalization of religion mixed ideas cultural complexity |
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