The present article is an analytical and comparative study between religious beliefs and the level of social health in both elite and non-elite communities. The theoretical framework of the research is based on Keys' theories and the views of functionalist theorists. In the present study, the survey method was used and its statistical populations consisted of faculty members of the Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch and citizens without academic education in Tehran. The statistical sample size of the elite population was 265 and the non-elite population was 385 according to the Cochran's formula. Data analysis was performed with SPSS software. Findings showed that there is a significant direct relationship between religious beliefs and social health in the elite and non-elite community. Among the dimensions of religious beliefs, the dimension of performance of duties has no significant relationship with any of the dimensions of social health except social cohesion. Also, the relationship between the religious and emotional dimensions of religion and the social health of the elite community is greater than the non-elite community. On the other hand, the contextual variables of age, income, education have a significant relationship with social health. Also, the variables of religious emotions, education, religious duties and age explanation 21.7% of changes in social health, respectively.
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