Özet:

The study aims to shed some light on the factors affecting religiosity, study was performed on two samples from two countries, the selected countries are varied geographically, however, they have the same religion, namely Turkey and Jordan. The targeted study group was university students. Students were selected Istanbul University and the University of Jordan. A questionnaire containing 37 paragraphs that would fit both samples were distributed to the students for data collection, the questionnaire questions were divided into five dimensions of religiosity which are famous in modern sociology literature, namely: belief, worship, transactions, knowledge and emotion. The questionnaire was filled by 1055 students from both universities from different majors, sample cluster method was used for data analysis, during the second semester of the academic year of 2018. The focus of this study was the main result which were thoroughly discussed on a PhD dissertation. The obtained result analysis shows a significant difference between the two study samples. Several factors were shown to induce differences, the major factors were political, legislative and educational institution. Other influencing factors are phenomenon of Western modernity, language, customs and habits. The research results were compared with other research results which were applied to university students in Istanbul and Ankara to shows that the results would change by changing conditions of the structural factors under focus.