Document Type : Original Article
Authors
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Level 3 of Islamic Education, Al-Zahra University and Master of Psychology, Department of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Payam Noor University, Qom, Iran
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Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Hoda Non-profit Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies, Al-Zahra Community, Qom, Iran
Abstract
Objective: Today, with the advancement of information and communication technology, the issue of the function of cyberspace has gained special importance, and its role in introducing religion cannot be ignored. The present research, titled "Explaining the Underlying Factors for the Emergence of Harm in the Virtual Propagation of Religious Teachings," aims to pathologize the hardware and software of the propagator, the time of propagation; social and cultural pathology of the audience in using cyberspace and the factors that prevent the realization of the goals of virtual propagation of religious teachings and challenge it. Harms that may not be observable but threaten the process of virtual propagation.
Research Methodology: This research has used the library method and referred to written and documentary sources, using two categories of hardware and software resources, and has used the descriptive-analytical method to collect data and information.
Findings: The research findings can be stated in two categories of individual and social factors underlying the emergence of harm. The individual factors, which revolve around the propagator, are stated under three titles: cognitive weakness, skill weakness, and moral weakness, and the social factors are stated under two titles: managerial weakness of officials and enemy infiltration.
Discussion and Conclusion: The main conclusion of the research is that the propagation of religious teachings in cyberspace is an undeniable necessity, but it is accompanied by harms, the prevention of which is the recognition of the underlying factors.
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