From Joyful and Eid-centered Religiosity to Mourning and Person-Centered Religiosity (Developments in Representation of Religious Rituals in the Press of the Last Century in Tehran, Case Study: Ettelaat Newspaper)

In this article, by reading the news of Islamic occasions in the newspapers of the last hundred years in Tehran (with the focus on the Ettelaat Newspaper), the represented religious rituals are counted and divided into two categories: joyful and mournful. An attempt has been made by quantitative approach, the course of their developments in the last century, in terms of frequency and news value. On this basis, it has been stated that in the early decades (corresponding to the Pahlavi era), the religiosity presented in the newspaper had a heavier scale of happiness and was more centered on "festivals"; In terms of mourning, most of the rituals focus on the martyrdom and tragedy of the "Five Ahl al-Bayt" and have a low diversity. This gap between the joyful and mournful rituals in the middle years of the century (corresponding to the Revolution) is minimized by the growth of the representation of mourning rituals. In the second half of the century (corresponding to the era of the Islamic Republic) with the sharp increase in the frequency of appropriate news and the multiplicity of topics in general, mourning rituals have grown a lot, become more diverse and in the last decade completely dominated the religious atmosphere. In the last two decades of the century, however, good news is declining. This increase in the dimension of mourning manifests itself in the growth of the representation of the tragedy of "other innocents" (except five) and "innocent" persons. In short, it can be said that the religiosity represented in the newspapers of the century started with a happy and Eid-oriented mood, and at the end of the century, it became mournful and person-oriented.