The Examination of the New Media Pathologies on the Religious Identity of Adolescents

The issue of the religious identity of youthswith respect to their constructive role in the future formation of the country has made twofold the importance of it. With developing of communication and the media and worldly receiving of information, the new generation accesses more modernsources. In the contemporary period which its specifications are widespread acceleration, change and evolution and communication technologies are of the important tools to transmit and exchange information and culture, shaping of identity has been faced a lot of evolutions and complications. The emergence of the modern media and its effects (aftermath) such as the formation of virtual world, the change of culture, releasing from time and place and interference of several sources in identity formation, has confrontedthe religious identity of youths with damages and challenges in the different aspects of conducts, morality and religious belief.This research with aim to study the modern media damages to the religious identity of youths and also to present media policies has been conducted. The method of the research is descriptive- analytic. Findings show that the most important damages of the new media is to be mentioned running away the previous traditional sources, governing of western culture and ideology, individualism and secularism which causes the evolution of amount of the adherence of youths to the religious aspects and change in the area of their knowledge and awareness.