Religious Cultural Research Articles

PEMBENTUKAN HABITUS BUDAYA AGAMA DI SMA ISLAM SWASTA KABUPATEN BANYUMAS

This paper discusses the process of forming a habit of religious culture in some islamic private high school in Banyumas Regency, namely: Al Irsyad Al Islamiyah, Muhammadiyah 1 of Purwokerto, and Ma’arif NU of Sokaraja. The planting of a habit of religious culture was practiced by each high school based on its mainstream of religious culture in each school. The planting of religious cultural habits in the schools were applied through: classroom learning process, the development of PAI curriculum, school autonomy, human resources development, outdoor activities. In forming the habits of religious culture in each school, there were some differences of subcultures in each school, and it could be analyzed using curriculum and habits theories, which include habits, field, social capital, and doxa.

Religiousness/spirituality, cardiovascular disease, and cancer: Cultural integration for health research and intervention.

Recently, behavioral scientists have developed greater interest in understanding the relations between religiousness and spirituality (R/S) and health. Our objectives were to (a) provide an overview of the R/S and health literature specific to cardiovascular disease (CVD) and cancer, (b) discuss the importance of religious culture considerations to behavioral medicine research, (c) suggest methodological changes to advance this research toward greater depth of understanding, and (d) begin discussion on clinically appropriate ways to integrate R/S into treatment. Individual studies and meta-analyses on the relations of R/S with CVD and cancer were reviewed along with articles on the importance of culture to understanding R/S phenomena. Trends in the literature suggest that R/S predicts reductions in all-cause and CVD-related but not cancer mortality. R/S also shows relations with cardiovascular morbidity, and various dimensions of R/S show relations with cancer risk factors and well-being in cancer patients. Investigators have progressively studied more specific dimensions of R/S but have largely failed to consider them within religious cultural contexts. This context is essential for a deeper understanding of R/S and health relations and has profound methodological implications for future studies. R/S and health research is expanding; yet, the field needs more programmatic research and greater theoretical organization. We propose that consideration of R/S variables within their religious culture will provide structure for greater integrative understanding to move the field forward. This understanding is imperative if R/S is to be appropriately integrated into culturally sensitive clinical interventions.

With Justice He Judges and Makes War: Elite Leadership Choices, Nuclear Weapons Decisions, and Religious Cultural Heritage

With Justice He Judges and Makes War: Elite Leadership Choices, Nuclear Weapons Decisions, and Religious Cultural Heritage

Culture Clash or Democratic Peace?: Results of a Survey Experiment on the Effect of Religious Culture and Regime Type on Foreign Policy Opinion Formation

We extend the logic of the democratic peace to query whether information about a foreign country's regime type affects US citizens' opinions of that country. We contrast this with the suggestion in other areas of international relations theorizing, such as the “clash of civilizations” thesis and constructivist frameworks, that a country's culture, especially its dominant religious tradition, may be more salient in citizen attitudes toward foreign countries. We designed a survey experiment to test the effects of randomly assigned cues regarding the regime type (democracy/nondemocracy) and religious culture (Islam/Christianity) of a foreign country on respondents' attitudes. Religious cultural cues outperformed regime type cues in determining respondents' perceptions of threat or expressions of trust, but respondents' views did not conform to maximalist claims of either the democratic peace or the clash of civilizations frameworks. These findings suggest that the need for a more synergetic approach to understanding the microfoundations of public foreign policy opinion formation.

Book Review: Vijayanagara Visions: Religious Experience and Cultural Creativity in a South Indian Empire

Book Review: Vijayanagara Visions: Religious Experience and Cultural Creativity in a South Indian Empire

Framing Islamism: Understanding the Dynamics of Globalized Violence and Politics

The Terrorist in Search of Humanity: Militant Islam and Global Politics. By Devji Faisal. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. 224 pp., $24.95 hardback (ISBN-13: 978-0-231-70060-3). Islamic Radicalism and Global Jihad. By R. Springer Devin, L. Regens James, David N. Edger. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2009. 336 pp., $26.95 paperback (ISBN-13: 978-1-589-01253-0). Islam's Predicament with Modernity: Religious Reform and Cultural Change. By Tibi Bassam. New York: Routledge, 2009. 400 pp., $42.95 paperback (ISBN-13: 978-0-415-48472-5). Pariah Politics: Understanding Western Radical Islamism and What Should be Done. By Saggar Shamit. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. 352 pp., $49.95 hardback (ISBN-13: 978-0-199-55813-1). How to make sense of the globalized forms of violent militancy and of politics that have been generated by Islamism in recent years? The books reviewed here all seek to uncover the general trends underpinning this phenomenon and to explain its implications for Muslim communities, the Muslim world, and the international system. Approaching this issue from different angles—security studies, sociology, religious studies, postcolonial studies—they all seek to dispel some of the misunderstandings regarding the contemporary dynamics of Islamism. These efforts are in themselves worthy of praise in a policy and academic environment where crude over-generalizations about political Islam remain a common occurrence. However it must be said that some of these books only very partially succeed in this task. Clearly, one problem that is particularly acute in the field of security studies is the overreliance on overambitious explanatory schemes. In religious studies, by contrast the problems are caused by dogmatic debates about the “true” meaning of the faith and its implications for related issues of reformation and secularization. Overall, the limitations shown by some of the books reviewed here are not induced by the choice of the discipline from which Islamism is being analyzed. As specialists of political Islam have already indicated, Islamism can be usefully examined using multiple disciplinary lenses (Mandaville 2007; Volpi 2010). Here, the difficulties encountered are mainly self-imposed: caused either by a less than optimal choice of conceptual arguments on which to build explanations of new forms of Islamism, or by a too narrow analytical focus. Explanations relying on well-known tropes such as the “radicalizing” role of religious ideology, the socio-economic and political exclusion of specific social groups, the “misinterpreting” of religious texts, and so on, have already been criticized for failing to account for the novelty of global Islamism (Roy 2004). Two of the …

観光の地域づくりと宗教文化資源 : 神奈川県江の島の事例から(現代日本における地域活動と宗教文化の活用-神道と福祉の接点-,パネル, 第六十七回学術大会紀要)

観光の地域づくりと宗教文化資源 : 神奈川県江の島の事例から(現代日本における地域活動と宗教文化の活用-神道と福祉の接点-,パネル, 第六十七回学術大会紀要)

Appropriating Universality: The Coltranes and 1960s Spirituality

During the sixties, Americans increasingly rejected mainline denominations in favor of alternative, eclectic, and non-Western spiritual paths. For African Americans, such pursuits contributed to the goals of challenging racial and religious cultural hegemony. These spiritual explorations have had a lasting impact on jazz music. Many jazz musicians were exposed to the sounds and musical processes they discovered in the foreign cultures from which these traditions emerged. Though less audible, non-Western spiritual traditions also exerted a more abstract philosophical influence, inspiring artists to dissolve formal and stylistic boundaries and produce works of great originality. Contextualizing the spiritual explorations of John and Alice Coltrane within the American religious culture and liberation movements of the sixties, this essay explores the way that their eclectic appropriation of Eastern spiritual concepts and their commitment to spiritual universality not only inspired musical innovation, but also provided a counter-hegemonic, political and cultural critique.

Beyond Belief: Religious Fundamentalism and Cultural Politics in the Age of George W. Bush

This article looks at the increasing way in which evangelical religion has shaped the cultural politics and policies of the United States and the presidency of George W. Bush. The author argues that under the Bush administration, there is an ongoing attempt to collapse the divisions between religion and the state and that the implications for such changes threaten not only freedom of religion but the very nature of democracy.

14. On the Need for Religious Cultural Education(III A Comparison of Religious Education in Japan and Korea: The Question of "Religion" in Public Education)

14. On the Need for Religious Cultural Education(III A Comparison of Religious Education in Japan and Korea: The Question of "Religion" in Public Education)

Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet: Religious Revival and Cultural Identity (review)

Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet: Religious Revival and Cultural Identity (review)

Small Sacrifices: Religious Change and Cultural Identity among the Ngaju of Indonesia. Anne Schiller

<i>Small Sacrifices: Religious Change and Cultural Identity among the Ngaju of Indonesia</i>. Anne Schiller

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Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet: Religious Revival and Cultural Identity. Melvyn C. Goldstein and Matthew T. Kapstein. eds. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 207 pp.

Religious Culture and Political Action

Recent work by political sociologists and social movement theorists extend our understanding of how religious institutions contribute to expanding democracy, but nearly all analyze religious institutions as institutions; few focus directly on what religion qua religion might contribute. This article strives to illuminate the impact of religious culture per se, extending recent work on religion and democratic life by a small group of social movement scholars trained also in the sociology of religion. In examining religion's democratic impact, an explicitly cultural analysis inspired by the new approach to political culture developed by historical sociologists and cultural analysts of democracy is used to show the power of this approach and to provide a fuller theoretical account of how cultural dynamics shape political outcomes. The article examines religious institutions as generators of religious culture, presents a theoretical model of how religious cultural elements are incorporated into social movements and so shape their internal political cultures, and discusses how this in turn shapes their impact in the public realm. This model is then applied to a key site of democratic struggle: four efforts to promote social justice among low-income urban residents of the United States, including the most widespread such effort—faith-based community organizing.

Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet: Religious Revival and Cultural Identity

Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet: Religious Revival and Cultural Identity

Small Sacrifices: Religious Change and Cultural Identity among the Ngaju of Indonesia

Small Sacrifices: Religious Change and Cultural Identity among the Ngaju of Indonesia

Changing Conversations: Religious Reflection and Cultural Analysis. Dwight N. Hopkins , Sheila Davaney

<i>Changing Conversations: Religious Reflection and Cultural Analysis</i>. Dwight N. Hopkins , Sheila Davaney

Many Religions, All Australian: Religious Settlement, Identity and Cultural Diversity

Many Religions, All Australian: Religious Settlement, Identity and Cultural Diversity

MUSLIM ACCOMMODATION IN THAI SOCIETY

Theravada Buddhism, along with other early Brahmanic and animist spiritual practices, is accepted by about 95 per cent of the approximately 62 million citizens of Thailand. Muslims comprise the largest religious minority in Thailand, approximately 6 per cent of the population. About 4 million Thai citizens profess the Islamic faith and maintain over 2,700 mosques. The Muslims in Thailand comprise two broad self-defined categories consisting of 'Malay Muslims', who speak the Malay language and reside primarily in south Thailand in a number of provinces bordering on Malaysia, and 'Thai Muslims' or Thai Isalam, who reside in central and north Thailand. The Malay Muslims of south Thailand make up over 70 per cent of the population in that region. In contrast, the Thai Muslims of central and north Thailand reside as smaller ethnic and religious minorities in those regions. Historically, the Muslims of south Thailand resided in a cultural region imbued with a Malay-Indonesian Islamic political and religious cultural ethos, whereas the Muslims of central and north Thailand have been influenced by the political-religious culture of Brahmanic, animist, and Theravada Buddhist traditions. Recently, however, because of the administrative practices and policies of the Thai state during the twentieth century, all Muslims in Thailand have been greatly affected by the dominant Buddhist-Brahmanic-animist political and religious culture. This essay will focus on how Muslims in Thailand have accommodated to the dominant political culture that has circumscribed the Islamic beliefs and practices in this South-East Asian country.

Church and City 1000-1500: Essays in Honour of Christopher Brooke

List of illustrations Preface List of abbreviations 1. Christopher Brooke at Cambridge, Liverpool and London Marjorie Chibnall, Robert Markus and Rosalind Hill Part I. Urban Life and the Language of Religion: 2. Religious culture in town and country: reflections on a great divide Miri Rubin 3. Theology and the Commercial Revolution: Guibert of Nogent, St Anselm and the Jews of northern France Anna Sapir Abulafia 4. City and politics before the coming of the Politics: some illustrations David Luscombe Part II. New Arrivals: 5. Nuns and goldsmiths: the foundation and early benefactors of St Radegund's priory at Cambridge Elisabeth Van Houts 6. A tale of two cities: capitular Burgos and mendicant Burgos in the thirteenth century Peter Linehan 7. From privilege to persecution: crown, church and synagogue in the city of Majorca, 1229-1343 David Abulafia Part III. Religious Communities in the Urban Space: 8. The church of Magdeburg: its trade and its town in the tenth and early eleventh centuries Henry Mayr-Harting 9. The abbot and townsmen of Cluny in the twelfth century Giles Constable 10. The cathedral as parish church: the case of southern England Michael Franklin 11. 'Except the Lord keep the city': towns in the papal states at the turn of the twelfth century Brenda Bolton 12. The medieval chapter of Armagh Cathedral J. A. Watt Part IV. Religious Cultural Production: 13. The murals in the nave of St Albans Abbey Paul Binski 14. The annals of Bermondsey, Southwark and Merton Martin Brett 15. Citizens and chantries in late medieval York Barrie Dobson Bibliography of Christopher Brooke Index.