Al-Anbar University Journal For Humanities

Abstract

Religious orientation is a psychological and social phenomenon which continued with man since the first creation. The various religious orientations have been accompanied with several violations and confusions. Several bodies have attempted to exploite religion for personal interest. In addition, religion is sometimes associated with extremisits trends and intolerance and hostility with the others. On this basis, the study aims to explore the level of religious orientation (internal and external) in secondary school students after displacement resulting from terrorism actions. In addition, it aims to examine their intolerance trends and the relationship between religious orientation and intolerance as well as the significance of differences pertaining to gender (male/female) in this regard. The study sample consisted of 248 students (140 males and 108 females) coming from secondary schools in Ramadi city for the academic year 2016-2017. This sample has undergone to two measurements; one for religious orientation (Al-Buhairi, et al, 1988) and the other for intolerance trends proposed by Al-Ssunmadaey (2016), after verifying their psychometric features. After using suitable statistical tools, results have shown that the level of the general religious orientation for the sample was upper intermediate. Male stuents were more religiously inclined than female students (external religious orientation). Moreover, there were intolerance ternds in members of the sample. There were no statistically significant differences between the two sex groups. In addition, intolerance trends can be arranged in the following order; tribal prejudice, sectarian prejeudice, religious fanaticism, social prejudice and national prejudice. The recommendations of the study emphasize the active role of social organizations such as universities in fostering foundations of sound religious orientation which rejects fanaticism and the attempts to rehabilitate extremists to achieve social peace