Abstract
The study focuses on the differences in religiosity measurement of the Muslims
students studying in different schools like Christian Missionary School and Islamic
Schools in Rawalpindi and Islamabad. The data was collected by the questionnaires
and interviews from the selected population of Presentation Convent High School
Rawalpindi in comparison with Aims Education System Islamabad. The research tests
the hypothesis that the religiosity of the population of Islamic Schools is greater than
the Christian Muslim Schools. The sample of 50, 50 students from the respective
schools was administrated by Questionnaire seeking their responses on four
dimensions of religion Islam. These dimensions are ideological, experimental, ritual,
intellectual and consequential. For religiosity measurement the researcher utilized the
scale named “Attitude Scale” and proved its validity and reliability by Cronbach’s
Alpha. The statistical analysis of the data was conducted statistical software i.e. SPSS.
The finding of the study reveals that the Muslim students of Christian Missionary
Schools have more religiosity than Islamic Schools in the mentioned dimensions
contradictory to hypothesis. It is also analyzed that the change in religiosity is not only
based on planned aims and objectives of the school but dependent on its application
and the supportive environment (teachers, parents and school staff). Therefore,
whether the school has planned religious and spiritual teachings in its curriculum; the
teachers are the main entities to enrich the students religiously and spiritually.
