Purpose: The aim of this study was to identify the harms of religious
education in order to provide a model of enthusiastic religiosity in
high school students in the second year of Kohgiluyeh and BoyerAhmad provinces.
Materials and Methods: The method of the present study is applied
in terms of purpose and in terms of nature in the category of mixed
exploratory research, which in the first part, qualitatively and with
the method of content analysis research; From the statistical
population of teachers and education directors of the province, 18
people (by purposive sampling method) were selected and
enthusiastically participated in the interview process and the
construction of a model of religiosity. Validity in the qualitative part
was satisfactory in terms of structural validity, external and internal
validity, and its reliability was calculated by the method of
reliability and the opinion of an external arbitrator. In the second
part, a descriptive exploratory factor analysis was performed
quantitatively and by research method. The statistical population of
students was 320 people (using multi-stage cluster sampling
method) and participated in the research process. The validity of this
part was calculated as a formal validity from the perspective of 5
education experts and its reliability was calculated by Cronbach's
alpha method / 78.
Findings: A total of 35 indicators were identified as harms of
religious education among students. In the quantitative part, these
indicators were classified into 6 main indicators including personal
and emotional-personal characteristics, cultural characteristics, lack
of planning, family and friends, disregard for the phenomenon of
apostasy, and economic characteristics.
Conclusion: Most teachers and principals believe that insufficient
attention is paid to adolescents and young people from religious
education and a high percentage of them are exposed to distance
from religious teachings and apostasy. The attention of the officials
of the cultural institutions, the indifference and disregard of the
society towards religion, the strictness of the parents in religious
issues and the incorrect filling of their leisure time as the factors of
apostasy among the youth were mentioned