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Religion and Cyberspace
Syed Mohammad Hossein Sadat Chavoshiyan (Iran)
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Compared to traditional media, an important characteristic of modern media is that it taps on electric and electronic means and it has extensive coverage. The most important characteristic of traditional media is that it creates a face-to-face communication between addresser and addressees. Modern media ...
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Compared to traditional media, an important characteristic of modern media is that it taps on electric and electronic means and it has extensive coverage. The most important characteristic of traditional media is that it creates a face-to-face communication between addresser and addressees. Modern media has its roots in modernism and is a direct consequence of modern societies. Modern media especially visual media represent the dominant values in the society and has altered the function of family toward more individualism, and individual behavioral patterns. Under the influence of modern media, families are losing their traditional function and are experiencing new functions. A function geared toward more individualism and catering for the individual needs of family members, a function that challenged the traditional dominant values of the family. Among all the contributing factors, modern media in their various forms and comprehensive advertisements, have played a pivotal role in internalizing characteristics of modern world and specially individualism among family members. The current study aims to investigate the new functions of family in accordance with the role played by visual media in the modern society.
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Religion and Cyberspace
Sally Kawtharany (Lebanon)
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A Quranic researcher's personality should be identified by the scientific characters because his/her efforts should be based on evidence and truth to acquire knowledge, And without any doubt, the basic role here is to transform the Quranic givens to realistic values that shapes the society into a better ...
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A Quranic researcher's personality should be identified by the scientific characters because his/her efforts should be based on evidence and truth to acquire knowledge, And without any doubt, the basic role here is to transform the Quranic givens to realistic values that shapes the society into a better place, by trying to provide solutions for the problems and crises that our society is passing through, and develop our society's issues based on the Quranic visions. Moreover, based on our belief that it is necessary to start the development from the needs of the society, and in order for the Quranic researcher to complete this role in the perfect and most delightful way, this paper represents a new flame that will surely help in strengthening the researcher's ability, and in providing new technological techniques and tools of “Data Science” and specifically “Big Data”, in order to provide Quranic students and institutions a huge power that will lead to analyze the new era's situations and needs. Data Science is the process of extracting data from different sources to detect the directions and visions that represents it. This whole process leads us to produce and come up with the right techniques and decisions in any issue that is tackled. However, when such science is putting in the hands of a Quranic sciences researcher, we will be investing a productive mentality, and getting a step closer to treat the polarity that the Muslim lives trying to connect between theories and the practical reality. This paper studies the greatest profit that can be produced by the Data Science in understanding and analyzing the Islamic reality. This paper can also be a dependable research that a researcher can rely on through his/her Quranic studies so he/she can start with eliminating the society's worries through knowing the major issues to be handled, detecting the most popular Quranic-understanding misconceptions, analyzing the cultural and social backgrounds that affects the Islamic area, and studying the correlation for different phenomenon. We emphasize in this paper the new role that the Quranic mentalities of students and institutions should play on account the digital civilization that we are facing, through getting the help from the Quranic culture and education first, and the technological revolution second, specifically the Data Science.
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Religion and Cyberspace
Amber Zehra (Pakistan)
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A detailed analysis of current trends in virtual learning that can be applied for future studies of religious education and sharing results of introducing a new concept of virtual E-learning in Shia Islamic Education. A detailed study and analysis of latest trends in virtual Learning being applied in ...
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A detailed analysis of current trends in virtual learning that can be applied for future studies of religious education and sharing results of introducing a new concept of virtual E-learning in Shia Islamic Education. A detailed study and analysis of latest trends in virtual Learning being applied in different educational sectors that is yielding great benefits for educating young generation. Also share the outcome of applying these new virtual learning trends and techniques used in introducing a new concept of E-learning in Shia Islamic Education Platform by the name of ‘KAZ Online School’. The results will be based on quantitative statistical analysis based on behaviours and adaptive trends of more than 200 subscribers/learner’s of KAZ Online School. Virtual learning can help us to propagate the Islamic education across the globe to even remote areas and unlock new arenas for both preaching the true Islamic concepts within Islamic community and inter-faith dialogue. For this we need to understand the reaping benefits of latest developments and technologies being used in virtual learning space by different educational sectors. And then apply this to our current Islamic Education methodologies. This detail study and analysis will help to understand the future trends that are required to be adapted to attract and inspire future generations towards great treasure of Islamic education and values through virtual learning.
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Religion and Cyberspace
Ionut Cristian Baru (Romania)
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Even before modern technological era, there was a close relationship between religious education and technology. Religion has helped many people to understand new technologies and technologies have led to new understandings of religion, and even new forms of religion. Religious education can focus on ...
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Even before modern technological era, there was a close relationship between religious education and technology. Religion has helped many people to understand new technologies and technologies have led to new understandings of religion, and even new forms of religion. Religious education can focus on a variety of sacred concerns including myth, ritual, symbol, scripture, doctrine and experience, and furthermore as Jeff Astley (Astley, 1994) says in a context can and does ecompass indoctrination, personal formation, reasons and emotions. However these concerns tend to fall into two general categories the ethical one (or relational) and transcendental one. Nowadays a variety of video games explicitly aim toward religion. Video games researchers note that within video games, religion tends to suffer from a narrative and procedural incongruity. For example Michael Walthemathe suggests that video games provide a narrative and procedural platform for playful identity formation and ethical reflection, Ian Bogost (Bogost, 2007, p. 288) observes that religious video games are undermining their religious aims by adopting the conventions of mainstream video games genres without regard for their implicit procedural rhetoric. Also Harry J. Brown (Brown, 2008, pp. 104 – 107) notes that along with the promotion of an ethical concern for the weak, video games promote a reactive ethic of vigilantism and violence against all members of a given social class or oppositional alignement. So if video games once struggled for legitimacy as a cultural product, today the business of video games is booming, and increasingly the art of video games is turning to religious themes as not just inspiration but as central plot elements. We find moral decisions, invented religions, the power to create and experience virtual religious spaces and much more outcomes like these. Through a consideration of a list of popular video games this article proposes to show how video games teach their players the new gospel of cyberspace, where they can be what they want without effort and major consequences for the real life.
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Religion and Cyberspace
Mahdi Barov (Azerbaijan)
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According to the Global Stats Center, the number of Facebook users in Azerbaijan has increased sharply over the past year, but the situation with YouTube and Twitter is different. The share of Facebook in the country is 23.3%. The second place (2.9 percent) was occupied by YouTube. The third place was ...
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According to the Global Stats Center, the number of Facebook users in Azerbaijan has increased sharply over the past year, but the situation with YouTube and Twitter is different. The share of Facebook in the country is 23.3%. The second place (2.9 percent) was occupied by YouTube. The third place was taken by Twitter with a market share of 2.24 percent. The market share of Odnoklassniki in Azerbaijan fell below 1 percent, compared to 5.11 percent in the same period last year. According to him, the number of Facebook subscribers is close to one and a half million, which means that one in four or five people in Azerbaijan is an Internet user.
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Religion and Cyberspace
Kemale Asgarova (Azerbaijan)
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The Internet has become an integral part of our lives. Many lonely people look for a solution in a virtual environment. However, experts say that Internet addiction has caused disconnection from public life. Friendship sites, entertainment sites, games, etc. Many people now spend most of their time in ...
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The Internet has become an integral part of our lives. Many lonely people look for a solution in a virtual environment. However, experts say that Internet addiction has caused disconnection from public life. Friendship sites, entertainment sites, games, etc. Many people now spend most of their time in front of a computer. Deception is common in online marriages. So many married couples already have two computers in the same house. Women spend time in a virtual environment on a separate computer, men on a separate computer. Or connecting to the Internet with mobile versions has become faster and easier. But it should be noted that the use of the virtual world can be directed in the right and positive direction. In this area, religious education has a strong role. Emphasizing the importance of using "fast horses" to protect the religion and spread Islamic knowledge, as commanded in Surat al-Imran, the Qur'an draws attention to the spread of religious knowledge, as if by the use of today's fast and superior media. Thus, through virtual education and enlightenment, it can play a high role, both scientifically and morally, as well as in terms of intellectual and spiritual guidance and nourishment in strengthening families. The article provides extensive information and research.
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Inter-Religious Dialogue
Dr. Ibrahim Barca (Turkey)
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Nowadays, people's shopping, rest, music, entertainment and so on. the internet, where they can do many daily activities, perform all scientific, artistic and philosophical learning and teaching activities, and communicate with the whole world through it; It also has an important position in religious, ...
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Nowadays, people's shopping, rest, music, entertainment and so on. the internet, where they can do many daily activities, perform all scientific, artistic and philosophical learning and teaching activities, and communicate with the whole world through it; It also has an important position in religious, intellectual and ideological terms. Because today, many religious, intellectual and ideological collective and individual rituals, studies and actions that could not be done with classical media tools in the past can be done through the internet. In this article, these kinds of studies conducted on the internet were examined compared to the inter-sectarian dialogue and rapprochement studies that some of the Shiite and Sunni world did or tried to realize in the times when the internet did not exist yet. The purpose behind the selection of the subject is to reveal how much the Shiite and Sunni dialogue and rapprochement studies carried out over the internet actually serve the rapprochement and dialogue. The article consists of an introduction, a conclusion that includes the Shiite-Sunni dialogue and rapprochement studies conducted before the internet and over the internet, and the results of qiyas.
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Religion and Cyberspace
Dr. Abd el Hafiz Ossoukine (Algeria)
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It is always an ambitious and arduous task to try to deal with an area which combines religion and technology. Since the dawn of the Internet, people from different cultures and geographies have used cyberspace to communicate. The Internet, a "faceless and technologically constructed space", has helped ...
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It is always an ambitious and arduous task to try to deal with an area which combines religion and technology. Since the dawn of the Internet, people from different cultures and geographies have used cyberspace to communicate. The Internet, a "faceless and technologically constructed space", has helped desecrate the modern world. Also, it is certain today that the Internet has become a tool used to promote the kingdom of God. The challenge is not unique to a religion. Not only secular communities have flourished on the Internet but also religious entities and have done so for decades. In fact, the first online forum devoted to discussions of religion dates back to 1983 (the Usenet group net.religion), only thirteen years after the birth of electronic mail. To learn more about Islam and support devotees on their faith journeys, sites have sprung up to provide educational resources for visitors. Usually, they learn the Quran, the body of hadiths, the rules of Islam, its history and many other issues related to this religion individually. At the same time, a space is created among the faithful for forums for discussion and dialogue. Thanks to the development of the interactive Internet, new sectors have emerged: online fatwas, religious education and Q&A on daily life. We can therefore hear “new ulamas”.
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Religion and Cyberspace
Saïd KhanAbadi (Iran)
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When Ibn Batouta, the Arab-Muslim traveler, in the 14th century, visited the sub-Saharan regions of Africa, he could not stop admiring the quality of the religious schools of these countries and the motivation of the African peoples towards learning Islamic sciences. From the days of the traditional ...
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When Ibn Batouta, the Arab-Muslim traveler, in the 14th century, visited the sub-Saharan regions of Africa, he could not stop admiring the quality of the religious schools of these countries and the motivation of the African peoples towards learning Islamic sciences. From the days of the traditional Marabouts to the modern era and the launch of Koranic tele-education projects among Muslim communities in Africa, the inhabitants of this continent have shown a growing thirst for theological studies. The philosophical origins and the mental characteristics of this quest for African religiosity create a meticulous singularity in the denominational behavior of these communities. The question of E-Learning and distance education through computer platforms, in the African continent especially in the sub-Saharan region, require, in turn, certain particularities which are sometimes neglected by Iranian structures active in this field. . This article intends to approach the same particularities through a pathological vision in order to offer a more realistic and concrete profile of the potentialities of cyber-training in Islamic sciences in sub-Saharan Africa.
