Abstract
<p><em>Most studies discussing about interfaith marriage and religious conversion are ignoring woman's autonomy in </em><em>selecting spouse</em><em> as well as choosing religion. This paper examines the agency of women who converted due to marriage based on the experiences of </em><em>four</em><em> women in two areas in Aceh, the South East Aceh, and Aceh Singkil. Data was collected through observation and semi-structured interviews of </em><em>four </em><em>converted women, her husband, and her relatives. The phenomenon of religious conversion on the reason of marriage is placed in the feminist poststructuralist discourse, especially the concept of pious agency and critical piety agency. This paper challenges the view that says religious conversion on the reason of marriage will give the result to those who converted that religion to them is merely administrative matters and they lose their focus on building personal piety. Instead, this article argued the possibility of </em><em>people </em><em>who convert to other religion represent their religiosity after conversion as well as before conversion</em><em>.</em></p>
Highlights
FROM THE EDITORIAL BOARDSAnalisa Journal of Social Science and Religion is successfully launched for the volume 1 number 2, July - December, 2016
This article will investigate the experiences of Acehnese women who engage in interfaith marriage, that is, ‘a marriage undertaken between two persons of different religious affiliations’ (Lukito, 2008: 176)
We will discuss the experience of four women who converted to other religion for the reason of marriage by utilizing the concept of agency as an analysis perspective
Summary
FROM THE EDITORIAL BOARDSAnalisa Journal of Social Science and Religion is successfully launched for the volume 1 number 2, July - December, 2016. This article will investigate the experiences of Acehnese women who engage in interfaith marriage, that is, ‘a marriage undertaken between two persons of different religious affiliations’ (Lukito, 2008: 176). Both religious conversion and interfaith marriage will be seen as an expression of one’s freedom to choose her religion and spouse. This article criticizes Seo (2012: 1045; 2013a; 2013b) who revealed that religious conversion on the reason of marriage in Indonesia reduces the religion to merely administrative matter and resulting in losing the focus to build selfreligiosity
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