Content Analysis and Criticism of Religious Stories Published for Children and Teenagers During 2001-2006

To analyze the content of religious stories published for children and teenagers during 2001-2006, 291 religious story books from information center of Iran's book home (Khaneye Ketab) were selected for evaluation. Twelve categories were recognized in which each book was subtitled under a subject category. By subject, those books that featured prophet's virtues, their histories and Imam's virtues and moral stories were ranked from one to three. Prophet's relatives and religious leaders have obtained the lowest ranking among others, though the total number of books under this category was not considerable. Among prophets, most of the books were allotted to Mohammad, Ibrahim and Josef and among Imams the highest ranking was belong to Imam Mahdi, Imam Ali and Imam Hussein. According to the presented issues, some suggestions are presented at the end.