1- Islamic Azad university, Agharajabi60@gmail.com
2- Islamic Azad university, moh.rasouli@iauctb.ac.ir ,moh.rasouli@iauctb.ac.ir
3- Islamic Azad university, nejati.hosseini@gmail.com
2- Islamic Azad university, moh.rasouli@iauctb.ac.ir ,
3- Islamic Azad university, nejati.hosseini@gmail.com
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In this research, an attempt has been made to investigate the cultural geography, especially the religiosity styles of Iranian users in the Instagram space.
The approach of this research was inductive and the research was carried out using netnography or online ethnography, which is one of the qualitative methods. Based on this, Instagram pages with religious content that had many followers and the page manager to whom the page was attributed was one of the prominent people in the field of religious activities, were considered as the studied community and finally 14 pages that included different religious tendencies were selected as samples. The posts, comments and content published on these Instagram pages were considered as the unit of analysis. Coding was used for data analysis, which was done using MaxQda software. After the ritual dimension, the moral dimension was the most repeated. Finally, the typology of religiosity that represented the religious behavior of users was identified in 9 types. The influence of virtual space as a place and geographical space had an impact on the types of religiosity and religious perceptions of users. And each person represented a type of religiosity in the soft cities of the virtual space based on the accumulations of the space around him and the environmental perceptions in the religious market presented in the space of cultural geography of Instagram.
The emphasis on rituals in the culture of religiosity and dimensions of religiosity could represent a type of ritualistic religiosity. Along with this type of religiosity, traditionalist religiosity was also observed, which is supported by the official discourse of religiosity in the society. Rational religiosity, self-referential religiosity, epistemic religiosity, mystical religiosity, mixed religiosity, emotional religiosity, and fundamentalist religiosity were other types of religiosity that showed that religious culture and religious behavior found multiple and diverse representations in cyberspace. They represent the plurality of religious values and beliefs in social groups. In this research, the profound effects of the geography of virtual space on religious culture were visible.
The approach of this research was inductive and the research was carried out using netnography or online ethnography, which is one of the qualitative methods. Based on this, Instagram pages with religious content that had many followers and the page manager to whom the page was attributed was one of the prominent people in the field of religious activities, were considered as the studied community and finally 14 pages that included different religious tendencies were selected as samples. The posts, comments and content published on these Instagram pages were considered as the unit of analysis. Coding was used for data analysis, which was done using MaxQda software. After the ritual dimension, the moral dimension was the most repeated. Finally, the typology of religiosity that represented the religious behavior of users was identified in 9 types. The influence of virtual space as a place and geographical space had an impact on the types of religiosity and religious perceptions of users. And each person represented a type of religiosity in the soft cities of the virtual space based on the accumulations of the space around him and the environmental perceptions in the religious market presented in the space of cultural geography of Instagram.
The emphasis on rituals in the culture of religiosity and dimensions of religiosity could represent a type of ritualistic religiosity. Along with this type of religiosity, traditionalist religiosity was also observed, which is supported by the official discourse of religiosity in the society. Rational religiosity, self-referential religiosity, epistemic religiosity, mystical religiosity, mixed religiosity, emotional religiosity, and fundamentalist religiosity were other types of religiosity that showed that religious culture and religious behavior found multiple and diverse representations in cyberspace. They represent the plurality of religious values and beliefs in social groups. In this research, the profound effects of the geography of virtual space on religious culture were visible.
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