University of Religions and Denominations

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.

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is one of the most common brain–gut interaction disorders, characterized by chronic abdominal pain, altered bowel habits, and heightened stress responses that significantly affect patients’ psychological functioning and quality of life. Given that chronic stress plays a central role in the onset and maintenance of IBS symptoms, identifying psychological resources that promote adaptation and well-being is crucial. The present study aimed to examine the mediating role of resilience in the relationship between cognitive flexibility and psychological well-being among patients with IBS. This descriptive-correlational study employed a structural equation modeling approach. The statistical population included all IBS patients who referred to the Gastrointestinal Health Center at Al-Zahra Hospital in Isfahan in 2024. A sample of 300 patients was selected using convenience sampling. Data were collected using the Psychological Well-Being Scale, Cognitive Flexibility Inventory, and Connor–Davidson Resilience Scale, and analyzed using SPSS and AMOS version 28. Results showed that cognitive flexibility and resilience significantly predicted psychological well-being, and that resilience mediated the relationship between cognitive flexibility and psychological well-being. These findings highlight the importance of resilience and cognitive flexibility as protective psychological resources that help patients manage stress and improve well-being in the context of IBS.

This study converts the 112-letter corpus of al-Murājaʿāt into an auditable performance system and validates a KPI-governed Unity Index. Addressing the absence of scalable measures for dialogical ethics, cross-school evidence flows, and institutional uptake, we adopt a mixed-methods design: AI-assisted content coding and discourse analysis at letter level; evidence-flow modeling to quantify cross-citation and Qurʾān–Sunnah harmonization; and psychometric validation (inter-coder reliability, EFA→CFA) to confirm domain structure. Findings show consistently high Dialogue-Ethics performance (e.g., respectful tone, rebuttal without derision), strong Cross-Reliance on Sunni authorities with sustained harmonization signals, and comparatively weak Institutionalization/Education and Governance/RACI domains (e.g., curriculum inclusion, reviewer participation, documentation completeness). The Unity Index integrates these dynamics, revealing that civility and shared-authority sourcing lift composite scores while limited organizational adoption constrains long-run impact. Theoretically, the work advances a measurement theory of dialogical kalām by specifying observable variables with reliability targets and thresholds. Practically, it provides governance-ready dashboards for curriculum policy, program accreditation, public communication risk control, and continuous improvement. The framework transfers to adjacent management contexts: service-quality gates and compliance dashboards in airline management; stakeholder-trust controls in tourism and health tourism; and explainable, validated KPI programs in digital transformation initiatives.

This study operationalizes the Unified Civilizational Theological Architecture as a governance-grade performance system (UCTA-PA) that translates theological and institutional constructs into auditable key performance indicators. The artifact comprises 280 indicators 140 Crisis Warning Indicators (CWIs) and 140 Strategic Progress Indicators (SPIs) tagged to Layered Causal Analysis (events, systems, discourses, myths) and rolled into a transparent Unity Civilizational Maturity Index (UCMI). A mixed-methods, design-science approach was used: expert interviews and Delphi panels elicited constructs, thresholds, and ownership; structured surveys and the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) derived weights (CR ≤ 0.10); exploratory/confirmatory factor analyses and unobserved-components models validated structure and dynamics; and AI-assisted content analysis enabled narrative-risk detection. Results show that CWI trigger grammars (z-score/95th percentile exceedance with escalation playbooks) surface near-term divergence, while SPI target grammars (12-24-month horizons with non-compensatory floors) produce measurable, domain-specific gains. Weight caps and robustness checks (alternative normalizations and stakeholder-statistical weighting) prevent domain dominance and stabilize UCMI rankings. Sectoral pilots demonstrate practical value: in airline management, integrations with PSS/DCS/OCC/MRO streams support security-narrative sensing and link technology adoption to OTP/NPS; in health tourism, ethics and servicequality SPIs, plus rumor-control CWIs, enhance capacity planning and risk communication. The study contributes a replicable construct-to-metric pathway and offers actionable governance hooks for policy dashboards, funding gates, and quasi-experimental evaluation (DiD/ITS).

This article offers a bounded design–science analysis of the ninth section of Jawshan al-Kabir “Allāhumma innī asʾaluka bismika yā māniʿu, yā dāfiʿu, yā rāfiʿu, yā ṣāniʿu, yā nāfiʿu, yā sāmiʿu, yā jāmiʿu, yā shāfiʿu, yā wāsiʿu, yā mūsiʿu” through Civilizational Algorithm Theory (CAT). The study addresses a methodological gap between devotional-hermeneutical readings of sacred texts and operational analyses of governance, systems, resilience, and foresight. Rather than treating the section as a flat litany of divine names, the article reconstructs it as a rule-governed sequence of vocative nodes. The resulting semantic arc moves from protective restraint and disturbance management, through uplift, construction, and beneficent realization, toward receptive-integrative mediation, and finally to expansive plenitude and enablement. Methodologically, the article applies bounded corpus delimitation, lexical and morphological coding, adjacency-sensitive inference, semantic clustering, and bounded translation into systems, governance, and foresight layers. The findings indicate that the ninth section supports a staged architecture of divine agency: boundary-setting and repulsion (māniʿ, dāfiʿ), uplift and constructive-beneficent action (rāfiʿ, ṣāniʿ, nāfiʿ), hearing, gathering, and mediated repair (sāmiʿ, jāmiʿ, shāfiʿ), and capacious expansion (wāsiʿ, mūsiʿ). The article contributes to CAT in three ways: it extends section-based CAT analysis beyond the opening invocation and sections 2–8; it clarifies the theology-to-governance translation of a sequence centered on protection, repair, and expansion; and it demonstrates how a compact sacred corpus can generate bounded downstream architectures for taqrīb, governance analysis, KPI scaffolding, maturity assessment, scenario construction, and early warning without semantic inflation or anachronistic overreach. The study argues that the ninth section functions as a sequence-bound sacred ontology whose internal order is both analytically significant and methodologically auditable.