Media has changed into a tool and place for formation of religious identities and has tried to make religion and religious rituals as commodities. The media of new era are globalized and have found a path in all surfaces and corners of cultures. Globalization of Ashura is affected by media movement, which has been formed in contemporary world. It seems there are three movements in new conditions that have been effective in transferring the rituals from regional and groups to the international surface with the attention of people. If the answer is positive, what means have been taken in the globalization process of the Hosseini Mourning rituals in those countries? This issue is discussed by this question: If Hosseini Ashura ceremonies, which are mostly carried out, by the Shiites of Iran, Iraq and Lebanon have taken any global form in political, social and cultural form.
The major goal of this paper is to study method of performing religious rituals in Iran and Iraq with respect to the contemporary conditions in the world. She now teaches Media and Religious studies in University of Tehran, Department of Communications. University of Tehran, Department of Bahar is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies at University of Tehran.
