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Studying religious behaviors and attitudes are possible through scientific methods. Research paradigms in religious Psychology follows a regular research paradigm i. e. collecting and processing data. In an experimental method an independent variable is manipulated, and its effect on a dependent variable is observed. In an observation method subject's overt behaviors has been observed. Majority of studies in the field used questionnaires as instruments for assessing attitudes and opinioWi of people towards religion. Among scholars who have developed scales in this area, Allport, Thurston, Likert, Guttman, Fulkner, and Dejong can be mentioned. Indirect methods in psychoanalysis, specially
projective methods, have been employed to assess uncoWicious needs, desires, interests, aspiratioWi, and fears of people with a religious orientation. Other methods oj assessing religious attitudes are content analysis, intelviews, case studies, pictorial tests, and meta analysis. Since these techniques have been utilized in other counteries to measure peoples attitudes and believes about christianity, developing a valid and reliable scale to measure peoples's attitudes and believes about Islam, seems to be necessary.