Demographic Component Contents in the Islamic Religious Discourse: Analytical Study of a sample of Official Friday Sermon

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 The study aimed to focus on the space contained demographic component dimensions (growth, distribution and characteristics) in the official Islamic sermons map, Well as detection of the three sub-dimensional issues contents of religious discourse, and to identify the role of religious institutions in addressing the negative aspects of demographic issues. In order to achieve this the researcher chose a sample of Friday sermons official. Issued by the Ministry of Awqaf during the period (2014: 2015), With the beginning of attempts to renewal and unification of Friday sermons. the total of those sermons one hundred sermons over the two years. The Researcher has used the discourse analysis approach and strategies (Intent analysis, dismantling of text, and Textual criticism and context). In addition to design the guide for discourse analysis. The results of quantitative and qualitative analyzes confirmed availability of (181) pure phrases Containing the demographic contents over the time period of the study, all of which is devoid of figures or statistics, the population characteristics dimension represents (60.2%) ranked first, followed after the dimension of population growth with (39.8%) Percent, while not reflect the content of sermons the dimension of population geographical distribution. And Critical part of texts shows that responsible for the formulation of religious discourse does not care about the issue of family planning, as well as many contemporary demographic issues, As it turns out the interpretation of the contents of phrases and texts that the religious establishment did not play asignificant role in the launch effective solutions to address the demographic component issues. or formulate solutions for the population problem.

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