A Theoretical Investigation about the Relationship between Religion and the Media: from Media Religion to Religious Media

This research seeks to investigate the relationship between religion and the media by focusing on two concepts "media religion" or "religious media". A theoretical reflection based on interactive view on this issue theoretically, shows that religion can be viewed as a perfect system of human life, which aims at achieving happiness in the hereafter and promoting the welfare of man's spiritual and material life, and, distinguishing between the levels of methods, concept and purpose of the mentioned realm, religion differentiates between religious media and media-based religion. Research results show that media–based religion is a show of rites and religious beliefs related to the channels of traditional communications in modern media. But the religious media take three levels the realm of religion, especially purposes and ends. Attention to the purposes and ends of religion is not only considered important in the process of delivering the message and media coverage, but it should also be given to the stages of the mechanisms dominating the media.