The Opportunities and Challenges of CyberMedia in communicating Religious Messages

In the age of communication, the cyber space has created opportunities for the easier dissemination of different thoughts and cultures on national and global scales. As centers for production of Islamic thought, the Shiʻa seminary schools too have more or less been present in this area. Despite its importance, such cyber propagation has not been properly investigated so far by the researchers, and its weaknesses and strengths have not yet been made clear. Explaining the opportunities for and challenges to communicating religious messages in the Internet, this paper prepares the ground for cultural policy-making in this regard. This is a documentary- quantitative research in which, after presenting a conceptual framework, the opportunities opened up by the internet, the harms caused by the cyber space for conveying religious messages are mentioned.