Transmission of religious teaching through non-verbal interactions in Imams’ tradition

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(PhD), Islamic Āzad University (Sāri Branch)

Abstract

The most important responsibility of our holy Prophet and Imams (p.b.u.them) is to convey the God’s message in the most fluent way to the people. To achieve this goal, they used all possible and available instruments and methods. Some of the novel and most effective ones which were frequently used in their lectures and speeches were gestures, body language and also the available things and realia. Researchers believe that in order to convey a message, the use of non-verbal messages along with speech could play an effective role and its influence and impact on audience is undeniable.    In this paper, some examples from the Imams’ tradition (p.b.u.them) were mentioned, in which we can witness some of their artistic creativities in embodying and displaying the religious facts.

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