religious identity among young Iranians

religious identity in the life of every individual has a very important role today with the spread of information and communication technologies, particularly the emergence of a phenomenon called the virtual space. identity means "who is" that looked fundamental factor in social identities, human interactions with each other and in the form of face-to-face and in a social environment, but the identity in the virtual space Otherwise defined, particularly social networks like Facebook and increased use of the Iranian young population, both to the authorities and the people of Iran has become a concern. The purpose of this article is to examine the consequences of the virtual space on the religious identity of the Iranian youth. The assumption is that the virtual space with diminishing the importance of religious traditions and its components, lays down the religious identity crisis between the Iranian youth. Methodology, exploitation of theoretical arguments associated with the identity and the virtual space and relies on some empirical evidence of research, including research survey, conducted. In this article, first,identity and religious identity and virtual space are defined, then have been investigated the challenges and opportunities of religious identity in cyberspace pointed out in the end, and also the opportunities and threats from the religious identity of the Iranian users, according to some of the results of the investigations conducted among young people in Iran today. the results of the studies and findings indicate that the presence of more in cyberspace, the level of the religious identity of the Iranian youth is weakening associated with the assumption of this article.