Semantic construction of Arbaeen walking rituals (providing a basic theory)

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Document Type : The Quarterly Jornal

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1 Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Unit, Tehran-Iran.

2 Department of Sociology and Cultural Studies, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Ilam University. Ilam.Iran

3 Department of History of Religions, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, Tehran University of Science and Research

10.22081/jiss.2023.67656.2040

Abstract

One of the common phenomena of recent years in Iranian society, which is examined in this article, is "Arbaeen walking rituals". The purpose of the current research is to get the idea that pilgrims create for themselves from these rituals. The research method is qualitative and based on the foundational data theory.The informants of this research were 49 pilgrims participating in rituals from all cities of Iran.The main results showed that the effective causal conditions in the occurrence of the "Arbaeen walking ritual" phenomenon are: religiosity/ and expressing Shiite solidarity, background conditions: religious concerns/ attractiveness of the destination, intervention conditions: political factor/ advertising.Pilgrims' strategies are: respect for self-confidence/gaining confidence and consequences: Iran's power maneuver/reproduction of religion/and development of origin and destination/ which are depicted in the form of a paradigmatic model.The findings of the present research led to the discovery of a theory entitled "government mobilization as a sufficient condition".

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Journal of Islam and Social Studies

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 17 July 2024

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History

  • Receive Date: 27 October 2023
  • Revise Date: 25 December 2023
  • Accept Date: 31 December 2023

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