Religious Maturity Research Articles

Overcoming Religious Prejudice Among Indonesian Students Through Islamic Education Based on Religious Maturity

Religious prejudice adorns socio-religious issues in Indonesia, including on state university campuses. Some Muslim student activists are very aggressive in calling non-Muslims and minority Islamic sects as infidels. Their negative prejudice is that Christians and Hindus are infidels because they have three Gods. The Shi'a are heretical because they prioritize Imam Ali over the Prophet. Ahmadiyah is not Islam because they believe in Mirza Gulam Ahmad as the Prophet. However, their accusations have no reliable basis. Meanwhile, mature and religious students have positive and tolerant attitudes. The research aims to counteract religious prejudice in Muslim students through Islamic education based on religious maturity—a mixed-method research method. The research instrument is an inventory of religious prejudice and religious maturity. The research respondents were 300 Muslim students in Bandung and Palembang. The research results show that the religious maturity approach in Islamic education has effectively prevented religious prejudice in students. Before college, half of the respondents had a prejudice against non-Muslims and minority Islamic schools. But after college, their unfavorable discriminations diminished. They say that among non-Muslims, some believe and deserve to go to heaven. Shi'a and Ahmadiyya are both Muslims. The implication is that Islamic education based on religious maturity needs to be implemented in universities.

Review of Islamic Psychology: Building Correlations of Religious Maturity in Islamic Education

The study of Islamic psychology is a field that is increasingly receiving widespread attention in the context of Islamic education. An in-depth understanding of how the principles of Islamic psychology can be applied in educational contexts, especially in building spiritual and religious maturity, is a major focus in this discussion. This study used the literature review method to investigate the relationship between Islamic psychology and Islamic education, particularly in the context of building religious maturity. The primary sources used consisted of original documents such as scientific journals, textbooks, research reports, and other official documents. Meanwhile, secondary sources included review articles, reference books, and reviews that discuss and analyze findings from primary sources. The results of this research showed the correlation between religious maturity and Islamic education, as outlined in the Allport criteria, highlighting a holistic approach to student development, integrating spiritual values with educational principles. By fostering good differentiation, motivation in a dynamic religion, and a comprehensive outlook on life, educators empower students to navigate their identity while embracing moral and academic growth. In the end, this synergy between religious maturity and education will give birth to individuals who are not only academically capable but also moral and socially minded.

IMPLEMENTASI METODE BERCERITA DALAM PENDIDIKAN AGAMA ISLAM UNTUK MENINGKATKAN PUBLIK SPEAKING

Education is basically changing the attitudes and behavior of a person or group in an effort to mature humans through teaching or training. One of the educational methods in school teaching includes several methods, this method is the storytelling method. This research aims to determine the implementation of storytelling methods in Islamic religious education to improve the public speaking of grade 7 students at SMP Muhammadiyah 4 Giri. This research uses a qualitative method with a descriptive qualitative research type that uses data collection techniques through observation, interviews and documentation. This research discusses the application of storytelling methods in Islamic religious education learning which is motivated by the importance of using methods in learning to shape students' character in speaking in public. As a form of teaching that provides real examples through the characters in the stories that are created or told. This method of telling stories about Islam at SMP Muhammadiyah 4 Giri in cultivating the religious maturity of class 7b students has supporting factors including educators, the environment and learning resources.

Kematangan Beragama Perspektif Al-Qur’an

The purpose of this study is to reveal the criteria for religious maturity from the perspective of the Koran. This research uses a qualitative approach and a descriptive method in the form of library research. Based on the research results, the Koran has a more comprehensive perspective regarding the personal criteria of a servant who has maturity in religion. The six characteristics of religious maturity offered by Gordon Allport existed in the Koran long before this Western concept was coined. More than that, every criterion of religious maturity contained in the Koran is not just a choice of religion but includes things that are ordered. Because Islam as a religion that makes the Koran in addition to the Sunnah a guideline for its people does not only demand obedience in the ritual order of worship, but the worship that is performed must be displayed in the form of everyday character that reflects a mature individual in his religion.

Stress Coping in Adolescents Who Have Disharmonious Families in Sidoarjo

This qualitative phenomenological study investigates stress coping mechanisms among adolescents from disharmonious families, addressing their responses to challenging and unforeseen family situations. Through semi-structured interviews with two subjects in Sidoarjo, the study identifies distinct coping aspects: problem-focused strategies encompassing planning, competitive activity suppression, behavioral release, coping restrictions, instrumental support utilization, and emotional-focused strategies involving emotional support utilization, emotional release focus, mental liberation, positive reinterpretation and growth, self-blame, acceptance, rejection, humor, substance use, and religious turn. The research reveals that emotional intelligence, stress levels, and religious maturity serve as influential factors shaping stress coping behaviors. These findings offer valuable insights into the complex dynamics of adolescents navigating difficulties within dysfunctional family environments, emphasizing the role of psychological factors and religious engagement in their coping mechanisms. Highlights: Diverse Coping Strategies: This study unveils a range of coping strategies employed by adolescents in dysfunctional families, including problem-focused and emotional-focused approaches. Influential Factors: The research highlights the significant impact of emotional intelligence, stress levels, and religious maturity on adolescents' ability to cope with stress within disharmonious family settings. Qualitative Insight: Using a phenomenological approach, the study offers qualitative insights into the nuanced experiences and coping mechanisms of adolescents facing challenging situations in dysfunctional family environments. Keywords: Adolescent stress coping, Dysfunctional families, Emotional intelligence, Phenomenological approach, Religious maturity

Rethinking Islamic Da'wah Model in the Context of Digital Space

The presence of the digital era has changed the orientation of da'wah. Da'wah has changed from merely a doctrinal activity (to Islamizing infidels) to an activity of exchanging religious narratives between people in cyberspace. This fact requires rethinking the concept of the da'wah model. By reviewing primary da'wah scientific literature, such as the works of Abdul Karim Zaedan and Al-Bayanuni, researchers explore how the traditional Islamic da'wah model has been built so far, and then observe online da'wah sites in Indonesia to build a new model of da'wah. This study finds that the old elements of Islamic da'wah have changed in the digital context. The relationship between the elements of da'wah in the digital space is strongly controlled by the media platform used. The relationship between the preacher and the recipient of the da'wah is no longer linear or one-way but multi-directional. The preacher no longer holds full authority in the message he conveys because the critical and active recipient can freely interpret the message according to his wishes and background. In addition, the relationship between the preacher and the recipient is determined by various buttons on a platform. The choice of buttons: like, dislike, comment, subscribe, and di-subscribe, has eliminated the domination of the preacher over the recipient. This finding reflects a new model of Islamic da'wah, namely da'wah that encourages the exchange of religious discourse between people, opens space for various alternative religious progressive thoughts, fosters religious maturity, closes the dominance of the truth of one particular group, and creates an open and democratic religious space.

Trends of Millenial Generation Hijrah in Religious Maturity Perspective

The Hijrah trend has recently been prevalent among the millennial generation. This trend is more popular thanks to social media, which has become an important communication and information tool for today's people, especially millennials. The hijrah movement is a social phenomenon that marks the phase of the journey of the millennial generation who participates in animating the movement of Islamic studies in Indonesia. This movement has both positive and negative sides. On the positive side, the trend of hijrah shows Islamic nuances from the style of dress and da'wah language that adorns various social media lines. But on the negative side, the direction of hijrah became the beginning of a movement oriented towards a dogmatic understanding of religion and tended to become a new, different meaning. The Hijrah trend has metamorphosed into a lifestyle and further highlights the new shari'ah identity for the millennial generation. Based on this problem, it is necessary to study the Migration Trend of the Millennial Generation from the Perspective of religious maturity. The question is, how is the millennial generation's Hijrah Trend seen from spiritual maturity? The research method uses library research with reference sources in the form of articles in relevant journals and books because the problem to be studied is in the form of social phenomena.

Menakar Distorsi Radikalisme Agama Terhadap Teori dan Praksis Beragama

This research focus on related to the issue of religious radicalism as a phenomenon that unsettles relations among adherents of different religions. Its influence is so large and widespread that it has an impact on distortions among religious adherents, both in theory and in practice. Nonetheless, this problem can actually be overcome if adherents of religions with all their uniqueness are willing to live side by side in religious maturity which is fostered through mutual respect and enrichment through their religious values. The method used in this research is literature research by referring to literary sources in the form of books and journal articles that are relevant to the research topic. The result of this research is that, radicalism with all its tendencies to distort religious ways can be measured through maintaining and cultivating discussion space, educating maturity of tolerance, and building a shared ethical culture. These efforts cannot only be limited to academics at the contextual level, but must also exist in the wider community through the praxis level as a form of confirmation of the values that have been conceptualized

The Color of Devotion

This study of race and religion examines the largest population converting to Haitian Vodou in the United States today: blan—foreigners. This article investigates the experiences of white western foreigners, who remain vastly understudied as devotees of “immigrant religions.” As with many conversion narratives, white Americans report becoming initiates into Vodou to deepen divine connections, restore health, develop spiritual sensibility, and establish community. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork conducted in New England with white American devotees of United States Vodou temples, I explore westerners’ feelings of belonging in the lakou, or ritual kinship system. I explore the tension between white practitioners’ power and privilege and their desire to forge meaningful new spiritual communities, as the development of religious race consciousness for white initiates is not always a linear process. Ultimately, this work illuminates how foreign devotees must cultivate both religious maturity and racial consciousness as they work to acquire “religious citizenship” in Haitian Vodou, a Pan-Africanist tradition that requires all devotees to be dedicated advocates of Black liberation.

Religioznost i zadovoljstvo životom kod učenika srednjih škola

The relationship between religiosity and life satisfaction was examined using two scales -the Religious Maturity Scale and the Life Satisfaction Scale. The survey was conducted on a sample of 154 high school students (77 from the Gymnasium, 77 from the School of Economics and Trade), at the level of the city of Novi Pazar. The obtained statistical results confirm that there is no collision of variables between the degree of religious maturity of the respondents in relation to gender, religion and the type of secondary school they attend. The subject of this research is the determination of the relationship between religiosity and life satisfaction among students, depending on the type of secondary school (High School and Economic -Trade School), in relation to religion and in relation to gender. The practical implication of this research is reflected in the application of the obtained results for the design and implementation of workshops on this topic. Thus, students would have the opportunity to express their views on the religious aspect, but also to suppress prejudices against different types of religions. These results would provide an insight into the degree of satisfaction with students' life in relation to the degree of religiosity. Thus, we could have a preventive effect on their subjective well-being and satisfaction with life.

The Variety of Religiosities in Contemporary Turkey

The topic of religiosity in Turkey is often restricted to studies of secularization or fundamentalism. However, new religious phenomena, especially deism, are now drawing much attention in Turkey, yet most studies are focusing on small samples. Our study widens this view by presenting questionnaire data on a variety of religious self-assessment categories derived from a representative quota sample in relationship to sociodemographic and other religiosity variables. Only one-third define themselves as orthodox religious while 62 % identify as ‘believers’. The categories deism, non-belief/atheism, and religiously indecisiveness cover 7.2 % in total. Orthodox religious individuals differ in their sociodemographic profile from the rest (are older, more rural, less educated, higher rate of unemployment) and a sharp drop of all religiosity scores was observed from the orthodox religious to the rest. Deists, non-believers/atheists, and religiously indecisive individuals can, together with some ‘believers’, be grouped into a highly secularized cluster. Our findings suggest that there is a huge variety of religiosities in contemporary Turkey, despite the over-religionization imposed by the current government. Religious educators and clergy should welcome such changes by promoting development towards religious maturity independent of political agendas.

HOW MUSLIM YOUTH PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT CONTRIBUTES TO THEIR RELIGIOUS MATURITY

This research aims to investigate the psychological development of Muslim youth and how it may contribute to the development of their religious maturity. A qualitative inquity, the study reviews relevant books and journal articles on psychological development and religious maturity. Data were then analyzed by ideas of leading Muslim scholars. Findings suggest that the psychological development of Muslim youth determine their religious maturity. As part of their development, youth experience different stages of psychological development including identity search as well trial and error in search of their identity. These phases lead to different stages of religious maturity among young people such as total belief in something, belief with awareness, belief with doubt, disbelief at all. This maturity is influenced by such development factors as personality, psychological condition, family and institutional environment, and social condition. Due to good psychological development, most Muslim youth experience good religious maturity as they become moderate followers of Islam. The study also suggests some recommendations how to provide Muslim youth with proper psychological development so that they become religious and moderate followers of Islam.

The Concepts of Religious Maturity in The Application of Inter-Religious Education Model in Islamic Education

This study aims to analyze the interreligious education model in Islamic religious education and identify the concept of religious maturity in the application of the interreligious education model in Islamic religious education. This article was written using a qualitative approach and library research. Sources of data are taken from various library sources in the form of journals, books, theses, reports and so on that have relevance to the target object in this study, the researcher then process the data, until finally making the final conclusions from the research results. Overall, the results of the analysis show that the interreligious education model is able to produce characteristics and values in the concept of religious maturity of students, including: 1) tolerance; 2) dynamic; 3) integral; 4) critical; and 5) love. Thus, educators who apply the interreligious education model are actually supporting the process of religious maturity of students. The results of this study are expected to be used as reference material for educators, especially in the subject area of Islamic Religious Education, to be able to dare to open their eyes to the diversity of religions that will be faced by their students in the future, so that efforts are made to apply an interreligious education model which of course remains constant implemented in the corridor of Islamic law.

The Concepts of Religious Maturity in The Application of Inter-Religious Education Model in Islamic Education

This study aims to analyze the interreligious education model in Islamic religious education and identify the concept of religious maturity in the application of the interreligious education model in Islamic religious education. This article was written using a qualitative approach and library research. Sources of data are taken from various library sources in the form of journals, books, theses, reports and so on that have relevance to the target object in this study, the researcher then process the data, until finally making the final conclusions from the research results. Overall, the results of the analysis show that the interreligious education model is able to produce characteristics and values in the concept of religious maturity of students, including: 1) tolerance; 2) dynamic; 3) integral; 4) critical; and 5) love. Thus, educators who apply the interreligious education model are actually supporting the process of religious maturity of students. The results of this study are expected to be used as reference material for educators, especially in the subject area of Islamic Religious Education, to be able to dare to open their eyes to the diversity of religions that will be faced by their students in the future, so that efforts are made to apply an interreligious education model which of course remains constant implemented in the corridor of Islamic law.

Prophetic Leadership Model for Public Bureaucracy: How it’s Works?

This study discusses prophetic leadership models and how to facilitate them in the public bureaucracy. Prophetic leadership is the ability possessed by leaders to influence subordinates following Islamic demands (leading to the pattern of the leadership of Rasulullah PBUH). Systematically we work. Starting with searching for sources of reading (al-Qur'an, hadith, journals, and books), then reading interactive, making reading tables, and reducing the essence of reading before being transferred to the worksheet. This study found that leadership can be explained through extrinsic and intrinsic motivation theories. Prophetic leadership belongs to innate leadership because it uses spirituality as the basis of value. In Islam, prophetic leadership not only stems from intrinsic or ethical motivation but also combines divine-world motivation (Hashanah) and Akhirah. Then it is known that the triggers of prophetic leadership can result from imitating the Prophet Muhammad and social experience. The process of its formation took place for a long time, so it is concluded that prophetic leadership can be applied in the public bureaucracy if the state civil apparatus of the country has religious maturity. Efforts to realize prophetic leadership can begin by analyzing the level of religious maturity. Bringing spiritual nuances within the organization is considered to be sufficient to facilitate the ASN of a mature country. We are just at the analytical stage and predict its application opportunities. The next researcher needs to raise the best practice case from this model and formulate a measuring tool to assess the successful application of prophetic leadership in the public bureaucracy.

Adult religious morality development from the Quranic perspective: Strategies to overcome Islamophobia and Christianophobia

This article unveils the Qur’an’s perspectives on the erosion of phobia of other religions because of the negative stereotypes attached to Islam and Christianity to create greater peace in religious life globally. Furthermore, the Qur’an’s perspective on adult religious morality development is revealed by the at-tafsir al-maudhu’i method (a thematic interpretation). The study shows that adult religious morality development should integrate (1) religious morality (appreciation for faith differences), (2) national morality (love for the state and motherland) and (3) social morality (social integration) to build individual religious maturity to overcome Islamophobia and Christianophobia. Religious maturity renders humbleness, moral consistency, comprehensiveness and heuristic in every individual character. The results of this research are in accordance with Wallport’s opinion on religious maturity.Contribution: The main contribution of this study is to reveal the insights of the al-Qur’an regarding the solution to the problems of Islamophobia and Christonophobia caused by the stereotypes of Islam and Christianity. In addition to interpreting verses, this study is equipped with psychological studies in building everyone’s religious maturity so that they can think and act wisely in respecting differences in beliefs. This study is expected to minimise the problems of Islamophobia and Christianophobia from inside and outside the adherents of these religions.

Quality Control of The Internalization of Religious Maturity

Quality Control of The Internalization of Religious Maturity

Keniscayaan Inklusivisme dan Kedewasaan Beragama Untuk Indonesia Damai

This study aims to explore the understanding of inclusivism in religions to create religious maturity so that all kinds of society disintegration can be avoided. This study was conducted using library data collected, understood, and analyzed. Through collecting, analyzing and understanding lists of literature references it can be concluded that if every human being can be religiously mature and wise, surely there will be no more conflict in the name of religion and humanity will grow into a better civilization. Therefore, in order to create a harmonious Indonesia, it is important to maintain the spirit of inclusiveness and maturity in religion as a necessity in order to maintain the unity of the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia.

Reinternalisasi NDP dalam Perikemanusiaan sebagai Representasi Kecintaan kepada Tuhan

Maturity of religious understanding is a major effort to achieve religious harmony in Indonesia. Muslim Students Association (Himpunan Mahasiswa Islam)’s Core Values of Struggle is the starting point to develop, to disseminate and to implement the religious maturity. At least, there are three aspects of its core values that important to achieve religious harmony in Indonesia, namely: Monotheism, the humanitarian aspects and social aspects. These three aspects will bring interfaith relations more open, tolerant and harmonious. Religious people fully realize that all men are ungodliness in the same God, the Almighty God, all religious people are given the freedom to understand, to appreciate and to practice their religion in full conviction. Religious people also should to believe that all human beings are basically good so that they can view a positive and optimistic attitude to other religious believes, instead of being suspicious of one another. Furthermore, inter-religious relations need the real cooperation in everyday life. All religions need cooperation against common enemies, those are social injustice, poverty, ignorance, violations of human rights and the tyranny that alienates the awareness of God. All religions have a responsibility to the real work.

Religiosity and Stress on Nurses during COVID-19 Pandemic at a Hospital in Bandung

The problem of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has resulted in changes in various aspects of life, primarily related to health services. All health workers involved in handling COVID-19 are likely to experience psychological pressure in treating COVID-19 patients with an increasing number of patients. The correlation between religiosity is expected to guide an individual in interacting in the work environment, including in health services and managing stress on nurses. This study aimed to analyze the correlation between religiosity and stress at work during the COVID-19 pandemic in nurses. This research is an observational analytic with a cross-sectional approach. Primary data was obtained from a questionnaire to 78 nurses in the COVID-19 ward at a hospital in Bandung in August 2021. The Pearson correlation test analysis results showed a significant correlation between religiosity and stress. Religious maturity can influence a person's level of mental maturity. It can give a feeling of peace in the heart so that a person can avoid feeling restless and anxious about the problems faced without stress.