Are Women More Religious Fundamental Than Men? A Study of Religious Fundamentalism Between Male and Female Students of University

The study on gender as a factor impacting on one’s religious fundamentalism is rarely conducted. Some scientific findings and gender theories reveal that women are more exposed to proselytizing process in their own religious institutions which eventually increase their religiosity. Religiosity is essentially different from religious fundamentalism but their formations are likely to be exactly the same: parents, proselytizing, dogmatism. Different experiences faced by men and women in their social lives, personality, and frequency of their involvement in the religious institutions manifest their gender-based difference in religious fundamentalism attitude. The hypothesis saying that female students are higher in their religious fundamentalism is not proved (p=0.70). Male students are 1.729 slightly higher than female students in their level of religious fundamentalism which were collected by using revised religious fundamentalism scale.