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<p>This exploratory phenomenological study of lived religious experience investigates how a small number of Iranian Jewish families engage with spirituality, faith, and religiosity in the post-1979 Islamic Revolution context. Focusing on familial life as the primary site of religious socialization, the study examines how these particular households sustain their faith and sacred practices within a majority-Muslim sociopolitical environment, without seeking to provide a comprehensive account of Iranian Jewish religiosity or communal religious life more broadly. Seven participants recruited from these families were interviewed, and transcripts were analyzed using Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Analysis generated seven superordinate themes: religious participation, sense of security in faith, moderation in religiosity, growth in religious awareness, role of local synagogues, religious empathy with non-Jews, and challenges to religiosity. These findings illuminate the lived meanings, adaptive strategies, and intergenerational transmission of faith within these specific families, offering contextually-grounded insights into how the&#xa0;minority religious experience is negotiated at the household level. The study does not claim representativeness or generalizability to the wider Iranian Jewish community but instead provides an in-depth interpretive account of particular lived experiences.</p>

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Sacred Lives in the Household: A Phenomenological Study of Spirituality and Faith Among Iranian Jewish Families

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    2026年4月29日

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  • Fahimeh Ashari,
  • Mehrab Sadeghnia,
  • Zeinab Zaremohzzabieh,
  • Ali Shahbazi,
  • Seyyed Hassan Eslami Ardakani,
  • Seyedali Ahrari

摘要

This exploratory phenomenological study of lived religious experience investigates how a small number of Iranian Jewish families engage with spirituality, faith, and religiosity in the post-1979 Islamic Revolution context. Focusing on familial life as the primary site of religious socialization, the study examines how these particular households sustain their faith and sacred practices within a majority-Muslim sociopolitical environment, without seeking to provide a comprehensive account of Iranian Jewish religiosity or communal religious life more broadly. Seven participants recruited from these families were interviewed, and transcripts were analyzed using Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Analysis generated seven superordinate themes: religious participation, sense of security in faith, moderation in religiosity, growth in religious awareness, role of local synagogues, religious empathy with non-Jews, and challenges to religiosity. These findings illuminate the lived meanings, adaptive strategies, and intergenerational transmission of faith within these specific families, offering contextually-grounded insights into how the minority religious experience is negotiated at the household level. The study does not claim representativeness or generalizability to the wider Iranian Jewish community but instead provides an in-depth interpretive account of particular lived experiences.