IRIB’s Religious and Non-religious Programs and their Impacts on Religiosity Levels

• Main Author: Azam Ravadrad
• Format: Article
• Language: fas
• Published: Iranian Institute for Social and Cultural Studies 2009-08-01
• Series: Taḥqīqāt-i Farhangī-i Īrān
• Subjects: Religiosity; Religious Program; Television
• Online Access: http://www.jicr.ir/article_88_cb6db366216933c137dad92085abae56.pdf

This paper attempts to study the correlation between IRIB’s Religious and Non-religious programs, and the levels of religiosity in Iran. Accordingly, I would firstly explain the key concepts as religious program, non-religious program, religious broadcasting, and Ideological broadcasting; then, analyzing some instant programs, from non-religious to religious, I would attempt to formulize their impacts on one’s definition of religion –either as a private or simultaneously private and public matter. It is shown that in the trilogy of purely religious, purely entertaining, and mediated religious programs, it is the third which satisfy a religious television’s ideal.