Religion and Cyberspace
Hadi Jafarian (Iran); Hesam al-Din Moayedian (Iran)
Abstract
The entry of technology into the field of information and communication has transformed all aspects of human life to the extent that the transfer of educational data is accepted electronically and through a virtual environment by adopting a modern approach and removing many common limitations in physical ...
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The entry of technology into the field of information and communication has transformed all aspects of human life to the extent that the transfer of educational data is accepted electronically and through a virtual environment by adopting a modern approach and removing many common limitations in physical education. Thus, the present study analyzed the effect of virtual education on the expression of religious concepts for children and evaluated its effect on the religious beliefs of the aforementioned group. Data collection tool was a four-level questionnaire taken from the Glock and Stark questionnaire of religious beliefs, which was distributed among 82 parents of children aged 7-12 years working in the police force of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province. The implementation of this research was by adopting a descriptive-evaluation method, semi-experimental and pre-test-post-test, and inferential statistics including correlated t-test were used to analyze the data. The results show that the components of religious attitudes and beliefs, religious information, religious practices and experiences by children have improved significantly compared to before the virtual education; But this educational method has not had any effect on performing duties and abandoning religious taboos.
Religion and Cyberspace
Dr. Sayyed Mahdi Hosseini (Iran); Ali Qolami (Iran)
Abstract
The present era is confronted with a great variety of mass media and cyberspace with diverse capabilities and capabilities. Communicating in the global village now and exchanging forums, along with misrepresenting cultures and propaganda about factions, groups, individuals, and in particular religion, ...
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The present era is confronted with a great variety of mass media and cyberspace with diverse capabilities and capabilities. Communicating in the global village now and exchanging forums, along with misrepresenting cultures and propaganda about factions, groups, individuals, and in particular religion, is very common and accessible; it has always been attacked and harmed. , Is the core culture and context of religion and divine beliefs, which has also been subjected to cyberbullying and propaganda. Emerging mystics, the phenomenon of Da'ishism, and many quasi-religious networks and groups have changed the appearance of their religion to the world - especially the youth - and, in the meantime, inflict damage on Islam. In this situation, cyberspace should be able to show the true face of the religion and at the same time with anti-religious propaganda, by launching the right networks, groups and links to promote Islamic culture and presenting correctly the Qur'anic interpretations and sources. Fight. The present study attempted first to explain how to deal with such spaces by first explaining the damage done to culture and religious belief through social networks and its dangers to the younger generation, and then by providing appropriate solutions to propagate religion in these spaces. Offer and teach young people the proper way to use this space in line with religious culture.
