Abstract
This article will examine the efforts of a group of middle-class urban Muslims in cultivating the piety. It will trace the working logic of the formation of pious subject, as a point of departure to comprehend the increasing of religious zeal of the middle-class urban Moslem. By exploration on the activity of the employee and leaders of a number of companies in the Santri Eksekutif program, we argue that the effort to be a pious subject is often related to and interplay with the aspirations of Islamization of public institutions and with neoliberal ethics. Furthermore, we argue that more than a quest for identity, religious expressions that are public are a form of requirement to be ethical and pious subjet. Through this article we aim to (1) describe a form of ethical and pious subject, (2) explore the formation process of the ethical and pious subject, and (3) accentuate the interplay and complex relationship between the process of cultivating piety, aspirations of Islamization of public institutions, and with neoliberal ethics. This article is based on ethnographic fieldwork in Jakarta and Bogor.
Highlights
This article examines the efforts of a group of middle-class urban Muslims in cultivating piety
In Indonesia the religious revivals emerge as hijrah groups, majlis ta’lim, Islamic learning groups, Islamic hobby groups, and mass movements whose participants come from professional workers, academics, celebrities, and government officials
The data and information that we presented in this article were obtained through observations and interviews with Fath Darut Tafsir Islamic Boarding School caretakers and chair of the Fath Institute
Summary
This article examines the efforts of a group of middle-class urban Muslims in cultivating piety. That morning sermon session was ended by re-voicing the keys and reciting Surah Al-Fatihah To memorize it this time the congregation was asked to imitate Amir’s gestures. This article is discusses the efforts of Amir’ and his students’, the executives, to become a pious subject For the executives, their participation in the Santri Executive program is a means to answer the meaningful questions: How do I become a true Muslim while I am an employee/company leader? The teacher, Amir gave the answers, or at least a hint of answers This question from the subject’s point of view is important to be explored in order to find an elementary insight to comprehend the increase of the religious spirit of the middle-class urban Muslim phenomena. Instead of losing its appeal, the religious public continues to grow both in daily life and through the latest features of the information technology media (Kumar 2007; Ardhianto 2016; Alimi 2018)
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