روان شناسی و دين

Modern entertainments are new-fangled concepts in the present time, which have various effects and functions, including psychological ones. Knowing these functions is scientifically significant thus they sometimes remain unknown even to the inventers of these entertainments themselves. Another point is the influential conditions on the desirability or undesirability of these functions. Taking account of Islamic considerations can guide us in solving these issues. In this course, the following research aims to identify the psychological functions of entertainment and their desirability from the Islamic perspective through a descriptive-analytical method. The research has identified some of the psychological functions of entertainment including: joy and amusement, learning and education, self-fulfillment and self-transcendence, emotional catharsis, thrill-seeking and excitement, rejuvenation and tranquility, getting rid of problems, satisfying idealistic desires, oblivion and adaptation, psychotherapy, self-discovery, and substitutability. In today's world, these functions are often realized in undesirable ways. From the Islamic perspective, for these functions to be desirable, certain considerations are necessary, such as ensuring that the entertainment is lawful and lead not to outcomes such as neglecting wanted issues and man's other duties, ostentation, sudden and thoughtless behavior, addiction to entertainment, creating false needs (such as fashenism), cultural homogenization, attacking the Islamic culture, and dominance by tyrants (economic, cultural, and political).