جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "religious identity" در نشریات گروه "علوم اجتماعی"

The present research aims to examine how the dimensions and components of religious identity are represented in the content shared by teenagers about themselves and their media bodies on the social network Instagram.

This study employs Barthes' semiotic method to analyze selected content from 35 Instagram pages belonging to teenagers, sampling posts, highlights, and stories from each page. 

According to the findings, content related to the emotional aspect of religious identity has a direct relationship with Shia rituals. In the cognitive aspect of religious identity—related to the beliefs and convictions of teenage users—both trans-religious and intra-religious approaches coexist simultaneously, although deep understanding derived from reflection and reasoning is less frequently observed. However, the value aspect of religious identity is weakened due to the repetition of images and videos featuring non-Hijab or revealing attire, as well as unconventional poses, movements, and behaviors, particularly among teenage girls.

Based on the results, Instagram teenagers selectively adopt certain religious components while discarding others, indicating a form of selective religiosity among them. Furthermore, the connection between religious identity and self-presentation illustrates the "performative nature of religion" among teenage users on Instagram.

This article examines the changes that are caused by mass communication networks in the lifestyle of people in the society. The main question: What effect have the aforementioned changes had on the national identity of Iranians? Based on the hypothesis of this article, lifestyle is practically a platform that reflects individual and collective identity. In this research, by validating the category of globalization of the value system, mass communication networks are considered the most important tools in order to realize this category. According to the findings of the research, the Iranian national identity since the Islamic revolution has placed religion as one of the main foundations of the Iranian national identity and in line with the establishment of the Islamic nation. Meanwhile, mass communication networks have been effective in weakening the religious spirit and growing individualism. This effect is evident in the changes that are taking place in the current Iranian lifestyle. The result of the research showed that the consequence of the weakening of the national identity has actually strengthened the ethnic identity and reduced the political and social participation of Iranian citizens. This article is presented by referring to documents and library sources and using a qualitative analytical-descriptive method.

Media literacy and increasing use of virtual space in today's life, in addition to opportunities and positive points, has also left threats and adverse effects on human life. has not left any, so that in addition to the useful and purposeful use of virtual space, the adverse effects of this space on the Iranian society can be minimized. Considering the fusion of Iranian culture with Islamic teachings, the necessity of Iranian-Islamicization of media literacy is more visible than ever. The main goal of this research is to discover and achieve the components of media literacy from the perspective of Muslim experts. In this research, 12 experts and experts in the field of media and religion, who represented a significant level of experience and scientific and experimental participation in the field of the research subject, were selected by purposive sampling method. This research was done qualitatively and by thematic analysis method. The data collection tool was a semi-structured interview and Maxqda software was used for data analysis, which resulted in the extraction of 750 primary data. In the continuation of the process of descriptive and interpretive coding and the combination and integration of three levels of themes including 69 basic themes and 16 organizing themes of monotheistic belief, central law, aesthetics, Iranian Islamic content, religious identity, ownership and control of production and publishing areas and finally 5 overarching themes of media literacy components from the perspective of Muslim experts were calculated in the fields of purpose, identity, audience, content and format.

The purpose of this study is to analyze the relationship between media consumption and identity changes. In other words, it tries to study the interaction of identity dimensions on each other and their relationship with the amount of media consumption. This applied research, which is of a descriptive-causal type, was conducted with a survey method (cross-sectional type) and used the standard questionnaire tool of Selgi et al. (2014) to collect data. The statistical population of four centers of Oramanat region in Kermanshah, which was obtained using multi-stage cluster sampling method and according to Cochran's formula, the sample size was 384 people. The findings show that in the correlation matrix of the four dimensions of identity, there is a direct and significant relationship between ethnic and national identity and religious identity. Also, this relationship between religious identity and global identity is inverse and significant. The relationship between national identity and consumption of national media (TV) is positive, and between this dimension of identity and consumption of Kurdish-language satellite channels is inverse. What is called ethnic identity has a direct and significant relationship with Kurdish-speaking satellites. Also, there is an inverse relationship between religious identity and the amount of use of Kurdish language satellites and a positive relationship with national television, and these two variables together explain about 7% of the changes in religious identity. Finally, modern identity has an inverse relationship with national television consumption and a positive and significant relationship with satellite, and these two variables predict about 5% of modern identity changes. Another result of this research is that in the hierarchy of identity, the ethnic identity of the respondents was the highest with an average of 4 and the modern identity was the lowest with an average of 3.88. In terms of identity preference, the respondents first of all considered themselves to be Muslim, then Kurdish and then Iranian. In terms of media consumption, the amount of use of official media such as television and provincial network by the respondents was very low and they heavily use virtual space and new social networks.

The present research has been done with the aim of using meta-analytical statistical method in order to analyze the results of the researches conducted in the field of the relationship between the level of religiosity and tendency towards democracy. 30 researches conducted in relation to this subject were examined, and among them 17 researches conducted between 2014 and 2018 on the relationship between the level of religiosity and tendency towards democracy, which were published in authoritative scientific journals. were chosen. The mentioned researches have been carried out using the survey method in different statistical communities and based on reliable measures. In the first step of evaluating the selected studies, the assumptions of homogeneity and publication error were examined; Based on this, the findings indicate the heterogeneity of the effect size and the lack of publication bias of the studied studies. In the second step, the effect size coefficient was calculated using the second version of the CMA evaluation software. The obtained results showed that the effect size or the effect coefficient of religiosity on tendency to democracy is (0.439), which according to Cohen's interpretation system, is evaluated at a moderate level.The extent of this effect is greater among the citizens of the society than the students, and of course, in the central regions of Iran, this effect is greater than in other regions, the Iranian society is transitioning from a traditional society to a modern society, and this transition requires compliance with democratic rules and styles Iran's governance is political.

Recently, the association between religious beliefs and English language teaching (ELT) has gained great attention. Yet, when reviewing the literature in ELT, it becomes clear that studies have been mainly concentrated on other religions such as Christianity. However, the relationship between Islam and English language education has remained considerably under-investigated. This qualitative multiple case study is an endeavour to address this scholarly gap. For this objective, ten male and female Iranian Muslim English language teachers, including six male and four female, in Iran were selected through purposeful sampling. This study aims to investigate the link between religion and construction of professional identity. By using in-depth interviews as the main source of data, and following the principles of an inductive content analysis approach, the study indicates that Islam influences the participants’ professional identity in three ways, namely: (1) increasing the teachers' wellbeing, (2) affecting  their relationship with learners, and (3) providing them with a sense of duty to preserve the students’ religious values. Finally, theoretical and pedagogical implications as well as future research direction are presented.

 The present study aims at investigating the effect of using virtual social networks on the religious identity of high school students in Jahrom. The survey method was used in this research. The statistical population are whole male and female high school students in Jahrom, whose approximate numbers are about 7000 in the year 1400, of which 375 are selected as a sample by using multi-stage random sampling method. The research instrument is a questionnaire that has been used to determine its validity by face validity method and to determine its reliability by internal coordinated method by Cronbach's alpha method. The descriptive results revealed that the average score of students' religious identity in Jahrom was at moderate to high level. Analytical findings also showed that there was a significant relationship between cyberspace (total) and religious identity (total). Cyberspace (total) affects students' emotional and practical identity, but the relationship between cyberspace (total) and students' beliefs was not significant. Among the demographic variables, there was a significant relationship between gender, grade, field of study, type of schools, father's education, social class and students' religious identity. Explain the dependent variable in terms of the sum of independent variables. Target variables, activity and participation in cyberspace, cyberspace (total), attitude towards the contents in cyberspace, social class, gender, mother's job, field of study, father's job, father's education, are the strongest predictors of students' religious identity, respectively and these factors are able to explain 0.151 of the variance changes in religious identity. 

Although it can be argued that inequality, distance, and social exclusion have always existed in societies, one cannot ignore reflecting on why, how, and the consequences for the various groups and social systems that are so diverse today. The aim of this study is to explain the relationship between religious identity and the feeling of social exclusion by considering the mediating variable of social status among two groups of Shiite and Sunni students. The statistical sample includes 269 graduate students of the faculties of social sciences of the three universities of Allameh Tabatabai, Tehran and Beheshti, which was determined through the sampling table of Dovas with an error of 0.6. According to the results of two-variable analysis, there is a direct relationship between the level of religious identity and the feeling of social exclusion and an inverse relationship between social status and the feeling of social exclusion. Multivariate regression analysis indicates that the variables included in the equation were able to explain 39% of the variance of the changes related to the dependent variable. The results of path analysis also indicate that the variables of religious identity and ethnicity are directly related and the variables of social status are inversely related to the feeling of social exclusion.

 The purpose of this study is to identify the status of religious and modern identities as two important dimensions of post-revolutionary generation identity and the relationship between these two aspects of identity and also to investigate the role of some factors affecting these forms of identity. The method of the present study is survey and its statistical population includes all women aged 18 to 42 years in Ahvaz in 1399 and the sample size is 191 people. The results show that the relationship between modern identity and religious identity is significantly reverse, meaning that by strengthening each, the other will be weakened. In explaining modern identity based on religious identity and other research variables, considering the value of coefficient (R2), it can be said that 0.186% of modern identity changes are explained by independent variables, and religious identity with a beta value of -0.281 is the best. It is considered a predictor of modern identity. Also, in explaining religious identity based on modern identity and other research variables, according to the coefficient value (R2), it can be said that 0.365% of the changes in religious identity are explained by independent variables, and social capital with a beta value of 0.503 is the best. It is considered a predictor of religious identity.

The main purpose of this study is to study how to represent the dimensions of religious identity in television animations. This research is based on the approach of cultural studies and with emphasis on the theory of representation of Stuart Hall and the use of theories related to the field of religion, especially the theory of Glock and Stark. The statistical population includes Iranian animations that were produced and broadcast with a focus on religion and religious issues in the Radio and Television of the Islamic Republic of Iran.  In the methodology section, a combined model for text analysis is presented, which is a combination of the Keith Selby and Ron Cowdery and Roland Barthes models. The results of the research showed that in the animations studied, different dimensions of religious identity - ideological dimension with components such as belief in God, belief in prophecy, angels and demons, ritualistic dimension in the form of worship, praying and supplication, participation in religious rites and fasting, experimental dimension in the form of feeling fear of God after committing sin, seeking repentance and forgiveness, having peace in connection with God, asking God for help and consequential dimension based on components such as fighting against Taghut, inviting to worship, jihad in the way of God Peace-seeking, helping the poor, doing good and forbidding evil are represented.

Street harassment is a form of violence against women.  Research has paid less attention to the issue of street and sexual harassment. Considering the lack of systematic research on the relationship between the levels of one’s religiosity and the odds of committing street harassment, the current study aims to fill this gap. Using the National Survey on Social, Cultural and Moral Status of the Iranian Society, the data of 426 cities are analyzed and compared to answer the research question. Results show that: one, religiosity has a negative effect on the chance of committing harassment; two, social inequality has a reducing effect on the level of harassment; three, the average chance of occurring harassment in Sunni cities is higher than Shiite cities; four, the Iranian and Islamic identity has a negative effect on the chance of committing harassment, while, the Western identity has a positive one; five, there is an association between the frequency of harassment and membership in religious groups.

The concept of religious identity is recently used in the social and political thought of liberal societies, and the main research question is how post-modern thinkers look at religious identity? In response, the evolution of thinking in the perception of religion and identity and the creation of the concept of religious identity in close connection with who I am and what I believe were discussed. Thinkers consider objectivity and subjectivity in cultural and social aspects of religious identity and consider indicators of affection, awareness and commitment. It is considered a process of seeing, survival, continuity and precedence of religious identity along with other social identities due to the regularity with the special coherence of religious identity, and what is the main concern of identity politics is the widespread social manifestation of religious identity, which can be called the concern of religious identity politics. known among thinkers. In criticizing the approach of post-modern thinkers, the shortcomings of functionalist views, the backward and superficial view of religious identity and the lack of examination of the nature of the social values of religions have been discussed in the research.

After the Islamic revolution, Iranian society has a revolutionary identity that emerges in its institutions, especially education. The purpose of this research is to evaluate the students' identity based on the values of the Islamic Revolution and investigate the role of religious and national identity in their revolutionary identity. The method of this research is mixed method and has two qualitative and quantitative stages; In the first stage, the analysis of the content of the values of the Islamic Revolution from the statements of Imam Khamenei and in the second stage, the evaluation of the students' identity based on these values has been done. The type of first stage is content analysis and informations collected by library method. The second stage is done by correlational survey method and the tool of this stage is the modified questionnaire of Gharibzadeh and Hosseinpour (2018). The theoretical framework of this research originates from the adaptation of Bloom's goal orientation theory with the values obtained from the views of the Supreme Leader. The statistical population were high school students who studying in 2017-2018. The sample size consists of 1915 people. The sampling method is purposefully available in the first stage and random cluster sampling in the second stage. The average of all three identities was higher than the assumed average (2.5), but religious and national identities were higher than the average (3) and revolutionary identities were lower than the average. There is a positive and significant correlation between these three identities and the results of regression analysis show that the cognitive (β = 0.012) and emotional (β = 0.047) tendencies of religious identity do not have the ability to predict revolutionary identity.Revolutionary identity and religious identity in cognitive and emotional tendencies are better than behavioral tendencies. If one knows more about religion or has an emotional attachment to religion, cannot say that revolutionary identity is certainly desirable; but if religion is actioned, the revolutionary identity will be at a desirable level. Also, as the awareness of national issues increases, the revolutionary identity decreases.

The Islamic revolution was based on the pure Islamic culture and has traveled its path in the first step and has reached the second step. The pure Islamic culture wants the happiness of mankind, and the happiness of mankind depends on deep and pure spirituality. Therefore, the Supreme Leader emphasizes it in the recommendations of the statement of the second step of the revolution. But to reach deep spirituality, first of all, it is necessary to know the characteristics of spirituality. Therefore, it is necessary to explore the indicators of deepening spirituality in the intellectual system of the Supreme Leader as the source of the statement of the second step. The present research is an attempt to know these indicators and explores its components in an inductive way. The research method of this article is qualitative and of the foundation data type, which has continued with the study of the Supreme Leader's intellectual system until reaching theoretical saturation, and discovery and inspection have been the tools of this observation and study in terms of reliability and validity. The perspective of this article is an exploratory examination of the six other recommendations of His Holiness in the statement of the second step of the revolution. In its first step, the Islamic revolution established the Islamic system and continues its path towards the new Islamic civilization and is a claimant for the happiness of mankind. Therefore, the above combination is the spiritual civilization that is headed towards him and the three dimensions of self-improvement (perfect man, waiting man, spiritual man), socialization (revolutionary system, preparation for emergence, utopia) and civilization (new Islamic civilization, It considers the single nation, the rule of religion and morality) with the stated components.

After the Islamic revolution, Iranian society has a revolutionary identity that emerges in its institutions, especially education. The purpose of this research is to evaluate the students' identity based on the values of the Islamic Revolution and investigate the role of religious and national identity in their revolutionary identity. The method of this research is mixed method and has two qualitative and quantitative stages; In the first stage, the analysis of the content of the values of the Islamic Revolution from the statements of Imam Khamenei and in the second stage, the evaluation of the students' identity based on these values has been done. The type of first stage is content analysis and informations collected by library method. The second stage is done by correlational survey method and the tool of this stage is the modified questionnaire of Gharibzadeh and Hosseinpour (2018). The theoretical framework of this research originates from the adaptation of Bloom's goal orientation theory with the values obtained from the views of the Supreme Leader. The statistical population were high school students who studying in 2017-2018. The sample size consists of 1915 people. The sampling method is purposefully available in the first stage and random cluster sampling in the second stage. The average of all three identities was higher than the assumed average (2.5), but religious and national identities were higher than the average (3) and revolutionary identities were lower than the average. There is a positive and significant correlation between these three identities and the results of regression analysis show that the cognitive (β = 0.012) and emotional (β = 0.047) tendencies of religious identity do not have the ability to predict revolutionary identity.Revolutionary identity and religious identity in cognitive and emotional tendencies are better than behavioral tendencies. If one knows more about religion or has an emotional attachment to religion, cannot say that revolutionary identity is certainly desirable; but if religion is actioned, the revolutionary identity will be at a desirable level. Also, as the awareness of national issues increases, the revolutionary identity decreases.

Even though it can be argued that inequality, distance, and social exclusion have always existed across societies, one can not ignore reflecting on the reason why and how it is created together with its consequences for today’s various groups and social systems. The aim of this study is to explain the relationship between religious identity and the feeling of social exclusion by considering the mediating variable of social distance between two groups of Shiite and Sunni students. The statistical sample includes 279 graduate students of the faculties of social sciences in the three universities of Allameh Tabataba’i, Tehran and Beheshti, in which Sunni and Shiite students were chosen through snowball method and random selection, respectively. The findings indicate that the mean values of feelings of social exclusion, social distance and religious identity among Sunni students are higher than Shiite ones. Also, there is a direct relationship between the level of religious identity and the feeling of social exclusion, and the same is true for social distance and the feeling of social exclusion. Multivariate regression analysis reveals that the variables included in the equation have been able to explain a significant part of the variance of the changes related to the dependent variable. The results of path analysis also demonstrate that the variables of religious identity, ethnicity and social distance are related to the feeling of social exclusion.

In the era of globalization, religious identity has faced challenges and developments in various cognitive, emotional and experimental dimensions. Girls in today's world are constantly rethinking their religious identity, and various social sources play a role in this rethinking. Thus, the present research examines the social factors influencing the religious identity of teenage girls in Kerman city.

 Methods and Data: 

In this research, the survey method and standard questionnaire tools were used to collect data. 390 people from the statistical population of teenage girls in Kerman were selected by multi-stage random sampling. 

The results show a positive and significant relationship between the independent variables (domestic media, scientific lifestyle, artistic lifestyle, advisory support, sports lifestyle, and social capital) and the dependent variable (adherence to the religious identity of adolescent girls). There is also a significant negative relationship between the use of foreign media, Internet lifestyle, new leisure types, virtual network, and cultural capital and adherence to the religious identity of adolescent girls. 

The regression model with six variables of the foreign media, scientific lifestyle, cultural capital, artistic lifestyle, Internet lifestyle, and social capital, respectively, explained 32% of the variable of adherence to religious identity in girls. Finally, it can be said that a new lifestyle, social capital, and cultural capital play an important role in adhering to the sacred character of adolescent girls. 

Key Message:

 In contemporary society, the religious identity of teenage girls is a product of the network of social relations, media space, and modern lifestyles. Since the basic foundations of identity formation start from a lower age, especially adolescence, the approach of community-oriented recruitment along with cultivation in the first groups and strengthening cultural and media programs to manage inevitable social changes is useful.

The aim of the present study was to investigate the role of mobile networks based on mobile phones in reproducing the dimensions of religious culture among the young people in Iran. In other words, the main issue of the article is the role of social networks on cultural changes and orientations and the reproduction of the dimensions of religious culture among Iranian youth. To do this, Based on Gerbner's views, media social theories were selected as a theoretical framework. The type of research is applied in terms of purpose and survey in terms of implementation. The population of the study was 18-29 year old youths in Tehran, Ardabil, Gorgan, Shiraz and Kermanshah in 2019. The sampling method was cluster sampling and the sample number was 384. To analyze the data, using Amos software, Path analysis and factor analysis were used. The results showed that the use of mobile-based virtual networks in religious insight, duration of membership in mobile-based networks in religious orientation, participation and activation of mobile-based virtual networks in religious value, religious behavior and religious identity are significantly affected among Iranian youth. Therefore, mobile-based virtual networks play an important role in reproducing religious culture among Iranian youths. In other words, taken from Planting theories and social theories it can be claimed that the more the amount of use and duration of membership in social networks, the more the probability of effect on the user.

Religious identity means a sense of commitment to religion; Belonging to a religious community and belonging to a nation to which they adhere is defined and is considered as one of the most important factors in creating social consolidation and cohesion. Due to the importance of the issue of religious identity, on this basis, the present study was conducted with the aim of sociological study of the factors affecting the formation of religious identity of female high school students in Boroujerd. The statistical population is all female high school students in this city. To calculate the sample size, 383 people were selected through Cochran's formula and multi-stage cluster sampling method was used. The research tool used was a researcher-made questionnaire. Data analysis was used at two levels of descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. There is a significant relationship between a high school girl in Boroujerd.

The present study was conducted to investigate the ratio of ethnic identity to identity dimensions among students in Zahedan, Iran. The sample of the study consisted of 400 male and female students studying in Zahedan. The data were collected through questionnaire. The data analysis has been performed by SPSS software and we have used descriptive statistics, such as cross-table, and inferential statistics, correlation coefficient, and two-variable and multivariable regression analysis and also path analysis techniques. In this study, symbolic interactionism was used to illustrate the relationship between ethnic identity and other dimensions of identity. Considering the theory itself, it can be shown that identity is social in its nature and subject-matter; accordingly, ethnic identity and identity dimensions can be adequately explained. The findings indicate that there is a significant relationship between ethnic identity and its dimensions, namely national identity, religious identity, and global identity. This relationship is indeed positive and direct, and also religious identity has the highest relationship, followed by national identity, and global identity has the least relationship. In this study, boys had higher levels in having the above-mentioned identities than girls.