Tenth International Conference on Religion & Spirituality in Society

Abstract

Building on ideas developed in the interpretative paradigm, this paper aims to explore how a governmental religion or a religious government leads identities of subjects, Tehranian college student women born in the 1980s, to dispersion, through using grounded theory method. The governmental religion causes subjects to experience fragmentation in four main dimensions, including the philosophy of life: crediting/discrediting religious beliefs (performing religious rituals, believing in the metaphysics derived from religion); lifestyle: various patterns of religiosity (self-referential, devotional, pure heart) and sexual relationships (monogamy, white marriage); political trust: accepting/refusing the religious government (making political and religious reforms); social communication: preferring desires and demands regardless of religious values and norms (selecting desired clothing), being free in making personal decisions (developing various types of interactions). Witnessing dispersion and experiencing decentered identities can be identified as the consequences of imposing obligation, by the conservative government and hands of religious fundamentalism, on the society in order to establish tremendous hegemony.