Meanings of Animal Sacrifice during Eid-ul-Adha

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" Meanings of Animal Sacrifice during Eid-ul-Adha "
Ziasma Haneef Khan, P.J. Watson, Zhuo Chen, et al.

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1065416
Doc. No	:	LA109045
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15736121-12341299‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	P.J. Watson
	:	Zhuo Chen
	:	Ziasma Haneef Khan
Title & Author	:	Meanings of Animal Sacrifice during Eid-ul-Adha [Article]\ Ziasma Haneef Khan, P.J. Watson, Zhuo Chen, et al.
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Archive for the Psychology of Religion
Date	:	2015
Volume/ Issue Number	:	37/1
Page No	:	37–53
Abstract	:	This investigation examined Pakistani Muslim understandings of the animal sacrifice that occurs during Eid-ul-Adha at the end of the Hajj. Pakistani university students (N = 156) responded to a number of items expressing possible interpretations of this ritual. A Faithful Sacrifice factor operationalized sincere religious reasons for the sacrifice and correlated positively with an Intrinsic Religious Orientation and with Muslim Experiential Religiousness. Extrinsic and Troublesome Sacrifice factors recorded nonreligious implications of the practice and displayed direct associations with the Extrinsic Social Religious Orientation and inverse linkages with Muslim Experiential Religiousness. Extrinsic Sacrifice also correlated negatively with the Intrinsic Orientation. These results further documented the complexity of Muslim beliefs and practices and once again illustrated how a dialectic between tradition-specific and more general social scientific perspectives can promote progress in the psychology of religion. This investigation examined Pakistani Muslim understandings of the animal sacrifice that occurs during Eid-ul-Adha at the end of the Hajj. Pakistani university students (N = 156) responded to a number of items expressing possible interpretations of this ritual. A Faithful Sacrifice factor operationalized sincere religious reasons for the sacrifice and correlated positively with an Intrinsic Religious Orientation and with Muslim Experiential Religiousness. Extrinsic and Troublesome Sacrifice factors recorded nonreligious implications of the practice and displayed direct associations with the Extrinsic Social Religious Orientation and inverse linkages with Muslim Experiential Religiousness. Extrinsic Sacrifice also correlated negatively with the Intrinsic Orientation. These results further documented the complexity of Muslim beliefs and practices and once again illustrated how a dialectic between tradition-specific and more general social scientific perspectives can promote progress in the psychology of religion.
Descriptor	:	animal sacrifice
Descriptor	:	Eid-ul-Adha
Descriptor	:	Muslim Experiential Religiousness
Descriptor	:	Pakistan
Descriptor	:	religious orientation
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15736121-12341299‬