The role of religious preachers’ pages presented to the public via social networking sites in spreading psychological peace and strengthening moral values ​​among members of Egyptian society: (Applied study)

Document Type : Original Article

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Lecturer in the Department of Media, Faculty of Arts, Zagazig University

Abstract

The research topic deals with a study of the role played by religious preachers’ pages presented to the public via social networking sites in spreading psychological peace and strengthening moral values ​​among members of Egyptian society, The problem of the study is the spread of many electronic pages through social networking sites that provide content that contradicts religious, moral and social principles and values, which negatively affects the personalities of many individuals, their moral and social values, and their sense of psychological peace, which requires confronting this by providing purposeful and constructive content on the part of the pages. Religious preachers presented via social networking sites , The general aim of the study is to identify the role played by religious preachers’ pages in spreading psychological peace and strengthening moral values ​​among individuals in Egyptian society, and the public’s attitudes towards this role , This study is one of the descriptive studies that relied on the use of a sample survey approach by applying the content analysis form to a sample represented by the page of the preacher Ramadan Abdel Razek and the page of the preacher Mustafa Hosni on Facebook. The survey form was also applied to a deliberate sample of 270 members of Egyptian society. Researched with the aim of identifying their attitudes towards the pages of religious preachers and their role in spreading psychological peace and strengthening moral values, One of the most important results that the study reached was the high rate of reliance on Qur’anic verses and the noble Prophetic hadiths as a source of content published on the pages of religious preachers. The study also confirmed the high rate of moral values ​​and human transactions in the content published on the pages of religious preachers. The results of the study also showed a high rate of contribution of the contents. Published on the pages of religious preachers, it is preferable to follow them to spread psychological peace among individuals in society.

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