66 Relationship between Religious Attitude and Happiness among Professional Employees Mojtaba Aghili and G. Venkatesh Kumar University of Mysore, Mysore. This article is part of a larger project, which investigated the relationship between religious attitude and subjective well being among Iranian and Indian professional employees. The present article focused on feeling of happiness among Iranian population. The sample consists 1491 employees of which 744 were males and 747 were female. Religious attitude was measured by using Rajmanickam’s Religious Attitude Scale and happiness was measure with The Oxford Happiness Questionnaire by Hills & Argyle. The main findings of the present study were that all the subscales of and total religious attitude were found to be highly correlated with Happiness. Higher the religious attitude, higher was the happiness. Further correlations revealed that higher the happiness more was future life and spirits and spirit world and lastly, happiness though significantly related, less correlated with formal religion aspect of religious attitude. Keywords: Religious Attitude, Happiness, Spirituality, Prayer and Worship Psychology of religion is the discipline that studies religion and religious phenomena using psychological theories, concepts, and methods. This discipline considers religion as influenced by psychological realities and as having an impact on theses realities. Within the psychology of religion domain there has been increasing interest to furnish the theoretical perspective with empirical support. One such approach is empirical interest in examining the relationship between religion and happiness. With respect to the empirical examination of the relationship between religion and happiness, traditionally the results of these studies have been mixed, with some providing consistent support for a positive association (lnglehart, 1990; Moberg & Taves. 1965; Mookerjee & Beron, 2005; Veenhoven, 1994; Witter, Stock, Okun, & Haring, 1985; Zuckerman, Kas & Ostfeld, 1984), while others have not (e.g., Abdel- Khalek & Nacuer, 2006; Blazer & Palmore, 1970; Brinkerhoff & Mackie, 1993; Heisel & Faulkner, 1982; Janssen, Banziger, Dezutter, & Hutsebaut, 2006; McNamara & St George, 1978; Poloma & Pendleton, 1989, 1990, 1991; Shaver, Lenauer, & Sadd, 1980;Tellis- Nayak, 1982; Yates, Chalmer, St James, Follansbee, & McKegney, 1981). However, such findings are difficult to integrate, as previous research has employed a variety of different measures of both religiosity including measures of religious attitude, religious experience, religious conversion, and religious behavior, and happiness including both single-item and multi-item scales, among a variety of different samples. Subjective well-being (SWB) is the field in the behavioral sciences in which people’s evaluations of their lives are studied. SWB includes diverse concepts ranging from momentary moods to global judgments of life satisfaction, and from depression to euphoria. The field has grown rapidly in the last decade, so that there are now thousands of studies on topics such as life satisfaction and happiness. Jahoda (1958) called for the inclusion of positive states in definitions of wellbeing, which sparked a paradigmatic shift © Journal of the Indian Academy of Applied Psychology, April 2008, Vol. 34, Special Issue, 66-69.