Interaction and confrontation between the media and the religion of Islam in the Middle East (with emphasis on Iran)

Middle East Political Review

مقالات آماده انتشار، اصلاح شده برای چاپ، انتشار آنلاین از تاریخ 21 شهریور 1402

نوع مقاله: Original Article

نویسنده

Halimeh Boroumand

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law and Political Science, Chalous Branch, Islamic Azad University, Chalous, Iran

چکیده

Religion and media are two very important phenomena in Middle Eastern societies today. In these societies, the media is considered a newcomer, whose serious presence in different areas of these societies is barely a century old; While religion has been one of the ancient and important elements in the structure of societies in the Middle East for centuries and millennia. This article is an attempt to examine the different dimensions of the confrontation between these two phenomena in Middle Eastern societies in general, and Iranian society in particular, and it tries to explore different ways in which the media appears as a tool for and against religion. It has been shown how religion has been able to use the media in many cases and how it has sometimes been at war with the media, feeling threatened by the media. The present article is based on the hypothesis that the interaction and confrontation between media and religion has profound and important effects on the studied societies and also on how the political and social culture of these societies is formed; Influences whose dimensions can play a decisive role in the confrontation between tradition and modernity and its fate.
 

کلیدواژه‌ها

religion؛ media؛ culture؛ Middle East؛ Iran؛ internet؛ satellite