Marife Turkish Journal of Religious Studies

Abstract

There are some certain obstacles in religious communication such as misunderstanding of the messages, the blocking, or cutting down of the communication process as well as in the communicator source and the target. These obstacles can be resulted from the speaker as the source or from the audience as the receiver or even from the situation of the communication. For instance, there can be some obstacles of communication such as the manner of the source, or the subject matter of the message or its unattractive content, or being perceived rather than out of its aim, the listening habits and understanding capacity of the receiver. In addition to these, there are some other obstacles in this matter such as the environment and the physical features of the target group and the noise etc. This article tries to deal with these obstacles to be seen in religious communication