Religious Schemas, Styles and Quest in Young Muslim Adults: Implications for Religious Tolerance in Practice of Islamic Faith
Religious Schemas, Styles and Quest
Abstract
The current study presents a relation between religious schemas and quest among young Pakistani
Muslim adults. Religious quest means search and openness in religion. Incorporating questions
relating to human existence and religious schema is a framework of meaning that traces an
experience in a religious context for its understanding. Religious schemas of truth of texts and
teachings (ttt), fairness, tolerance and rational choice (ftr) and xenosophia (xenos) correspond to
religious styles distinguished into fundamentalist, mutual, Individuative-systemic, and dialogical
types (Streib et al., 2010). Quest Scale and Religious Schema Scale was administered to a
convenient sample (N = 400) of 179 young Muslim men, and 221 women which revealed a
significant negative relationship between TTTand religious quest, and partially supporting a
significant positive relationship of quest with FTR and xenos. Proposal to moderate religious
tolerance through education is discussed.