Attitudes of Bahraini female students towards religious tolerance and its relationship to their use of religious clips on YouTube

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Assistant Professor at Ahlia University in the Kingdom of Bahrain

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The study aims to identify the usage of female students to religious content on YouTube and its relationship to their attitudes towards religious tolerance, applying to a sample of 259 female students from different Arab universities.
The study reached many results, the most important of which are:
-         The results revealed the intensity of female students' use of religious videos through YouTube, as only a very small percentage of them did not use it.
-         The results revealed the motives of female students’ use of religious videos through YouTube were: To learn about various religious issues, to identify the position of religion on various life issue, to learn about the Prophet’s biography and Islamic history, and provided us with knowledge of current news and events.
-         The results revealed that YouTube plays a major role in spreading religious tolerance, and these roles included: presenting religious views that encourage tolerance and acceptance of the other, consolidating human values ​​among people of different faiths, encouraging the renunciation of violence and religious intolerance, displaying religious role models that encourage tolerance and acceptance, and spreading tolerant Islamic morals.

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