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study of interrelationship between Friday Worship and Mass Media in presidency elections In this article, The authors try to answer 10 this question that what is the interrelationship between Friday Worship and mass media, specially TV, in the nine periods of presidency elections in Iran. This article is derived from a Ph.D degree dissertation research project which has been done in the Social Science Faculty of Allameh Tabatabaie University, in March2008. The research is fundamental and descriptive The dada have been gathered by Q Methodology (Quanel). 30 academic researchers, expertises and profesors in sociology of religions, petites and communications in Iran, answerd to 63 questions. The results' analisis showed that, Friday Worship has very impertant role in guiding voters to voting boxes in presidential elections whichis the biggest political ritual in Iran, Friday Worship also helps state to govern in Country.

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