Impact of educating "Islamic knowledges" courses on students' religious attitude

This research has been performed to study impact of educating "Islamic knowledges" courses on students' religious attitude. Methodology used is survey and its statistical population is composed of students both female and male – in all education levels namely graduate, post-graduate and PhD from disciplines "Humanities", "Art", "Basic sciences", "Medical sciences", "Technical and Engineering", "Agriculture" and "Veterinary" – who were educating in Tehran universities at daily courses during 2005-2006 education year. Among them, 1900 individuals were selected as statistical sample via stratified random sampling. In general, research findings indicate that:
1. Students have an acceptable religious attitude (strong and positive);
2. Among components of religious attitude, emotional aspect, behavioral fitness aspect, motivational aspect, and cognitive aspect have been more considered that other aspects;
3. Students who passed courses "Islamic knowledges" (1) and (2) have more acceptable religious attitude than ones who did not pass them; but, passing or not passing other courses related to "knowledges" (Islamic ethics, Islamic texts, Islam history, Islamic revolution and its roots), at current conditions, has not any influence on increasing or decreasing rate of individuals' religious attitude.
4. Using multivariable step-by-step regression, role and quota of independent variables in dependent ones, in order of importance, are: religious conditions, professor's behavioral characteristics, political-social conditions governing on the society, self-evaluations of students, type of university, education term, and "Islamic knowledges" course.