Religious Worship Research Articles

DIMENSI SPIRITUALITAS MUSIK SEBAGAI MEDIA EKSISTENSI DALAM SUFISME JALALUDDIN RUMI

Music in Islam is not only related to art and culture. It is also included in the discourse of religious worship and experience. Many jurists debate the legal status of music, both at the listening level and at the singing level. However, for Sufis, music is a medium of worship, a medium for expressing their experience of closeness to God. Jalaluddin Rumi, as a Sufi who often uses music and expresses his Sufi experiences through poetry and music. He has a different meaning about music, which seems to contain a spiritual (ruhani) element which is a form of his experiential existence. This issue will be explored in this article through the question: what spiritual values are contained in Sufi music? and how can music occur as a way of existence in Sufism? This research is qualitative in nature with descriptive analysis which results in the conclusion that Rumi's poetry and music show his more intimate and secret teachings in relation to the expression of his relationship with God. So the experience of ecstasy and the ma’rifat often arises through poetry or music.

Conjuring Up a King

Conjuring Up a King

Mzansi Magic

Mzansi Magic

Parenting Practices in Millennial Islamic Families of Pontianak: Navigating Between Pop-Islamism and Fluid Islamism

This qualitative study explores the parenting practices of young Islamic parents in Pontianak, Indonesia, amidst the evolving contexts of pop Islamism and fluid Islamism. The research uses anthropological lenses to focus on early childhood parenting within millennial Islamic families. The city of Pontianak, characterized by rapid development, ethnic and cultural diversity, and varied religious practices, provides a unique setting for examining these dynamics. Data collection encompassed observations, interviews, and documentation, targeting millennial Muslim parents born between 1981 and 1996, with children aged 0-8 years, totaling 83 participants. Interviews spanned a range of Islamic ideologies, including popular Islamism, tarbiyah, Tahrir, Salafi, and jihadist. The methodology involved data assembly, comprehensive observation, coding, categorization into themes, and narrative presentation. The results reveal diverse parenting patterns influenced by religious affiliations, advisors, worship practices, and explicit or implicit religious affiliations. While parenting styles varied, a high prevalence of authoritarian approaches was noted, with religion playing a pivotal role in child-rearing decisions and social interactions. The study also highlights the material aspects of parenting, including doctrinal ideologies and their manifestation in everyday life. The findings provide crucial insights into contemporary Islamic society's social and religious dynamics, emphasizing the need for an inclusive, multidimensional approach to understanding Islamism that extends beyond political and ideological realms. This research contributes to a deeper comprehension of Islamic millennial families' social and cultural intricacies in Indonesia and their strategies for balancing religious traditions with modern challenges.

Productive Waqf Asset Management based on Primary Scale and Implications for Community Welfare

In some Muslim countries, waqf is economically valuable and a solution to reducing poverty. If able to be developed, waqf even contributes a quarter of the country's income. However, in the Indonesian region, waqf is seen only as a means of religious worship, and it is considered a mistake to change it to a socio-economic direction. This problem is what this research aims to solve, looking at the management of waqf in one of Indonesia's waqf institutions, Roemah Wakaf, as an institution that dares to transform waqf assets into socio-economic value until it develops throughout the region. The result of this research is a solution to the problem of traditional waqf management. This research uses a qualitative approach, the data is taken descriptively by positioning the researcher as the key instrument. Primary data is obtained from interviews with managers, marketing staff and mauquf alaih, while secondary data is taken from documentation studies of annual reports and development plans. The research findings reveal first, the management of waqf assets to run productively. Roumah Wakaf Surabaya starts by planning waqf programs to be productive, organizing by appointing the person in charge of each program implemented, actuating where implementing the planned program, and controlling and evaluating each ongoing program. Second, the impact of productive waqf asset management on community welfare is that it can help the primary, secondary, tertiary needs of mauquf alaih in accordance with the theory of welfare in Islamic economics.

RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATION’S ONLINE COMMUNICATION DURING PANDEMIC (A CASE STUDY ON KRAMAT PULO SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 OUTBREAK)

Religious organizations are now forced to change their form of communication into online communication because of government policies that urge religious organizations to postpone carrying out religious activities in places of worship in order to reduce the level of transmission of the Covid-19 outbreak. Organizational communication is the process of delivering information and building understanding from individual to individual, or individual to group within an organization. This study raises the issue of online communication as a new form of communication in religious organizations with a focus on knowing the type of online communication used, the flow of online communication of religious organizations, and barriers in online communication. With a qualitative approach used on this research, researchers also used a case study method. Collecting data using in-depth interview and observation techniques. The subject of this research is the administrator of the Kramat Pulo GMAHK organization. The results of the study show that online communication of religious organizations uses asynchronous communication social media such as Facebook, Youtube, and Whatsapp Group as a means of disseminating information, coordinating, and alternative means of religious deepening activities. Meanwhile, synchronous communication media such as Zoom is intended as a substitute for religious activities or worship services, and organizational meetings. The flow of organizational communication online in the process of disseminating information is vertical linear from the leader of the organization to the bottom. Technical barriers, such as internet network problems, are a major problem in online communication of religious organizations.

The Rights of Religious Minorities in International Legal Documents and Islamic Shariah

The right of religious minorities is one of the most important rights of human beings through which people can freely perform their religious practices and worship without any fear. According to international documents, no state party to international covenants and conventions is permitted to discriminate against religious minorities. In most countries, there are lots of religious minorities who live as citizens or as migrants. Both need the protection of the state, and should be treated equally in accordance with laws. Fortunately, Islam also supports the rights of religious minorities and protects the rights of all those non-Muslims who live in the Islamic territory by the name of "Dhimmis", who also have to respect the rules and regulations of Islam. The doctrinal research methodology and a descriptive, explanatory, and analytical research approaches are used in this work. It is worth mentioning that this research study is entirely based on library sources. Most of the sources are reputable and trustworthy textbooks, scholarly published and unpublished journal articles, law reports, and online websites related to the research area. Additionally, the position of Islamic jurisprudence has also been clarified regarding the rights of minorities.

PHARISAISM AS A DISTORTION AND FORMALISATION OF RELIGIOUSNESS

The article deals with the socio-religious phenomenon of pharisaism in the unity of its ethical, psychological and existential aspects. It is noted that pharisaism is a vice that distorts the moral life of a person, its essence is dogmatism, double ethics, moral absolutism and demagogy. Psychologically, hypocrisy manifests itself in a tendency to prejudice, hypocrisy, rigidity, the desire to blame the other on the basis of only external signs. In the existential sense, hypocrisy is found in the replacement of genuine religious faith with its external attributes. The authors interpret pharisaism as a perverted form of religious consciousness and compare it with genuine religiosity. Pharisaism is a vice of religious life, both individual and social. The institutionalisation of pharisaism is one of the problems of the revival of religiosity in modern Russia. The comparison of pharisaism as a personal and institutional phenomena leads the authors to the conclusion that, being a social phenomenon, it in a certain sense contributes to the institutionalisation of the church, since it establishes formal requirements of religious worship. At the same time, pharisaism can and must be overcome in order to preserve true religiosity, living faith.

Sinergisitas Humas dan Media Jurnalistik Dalam Meningkatkan Citra Kerjasama PT. Grand Mecca Holidays dengan Kementrian Agama Sumatera Utara Melalui Penyediaan Jasa Ibadah Umroh dan Haji

This study aims to analyze the Synergisity of Public Relations and Journalistic Media in enhancing PT. Grand Mecca Holidays together with the Ministry of Religion of North Sumatra through the provision of Umrah and Hajj services. The community is also assisted by PT, Grand Mecca Holidah's Public Relations and Journalistic Media activities for the Ministry of Religion of North Sumatra in carrying out Religious Worship activities in the Holy Land officially and recognized by the state. It is hoped that the collaboration between the two parties will continue to make it easier for the people to go to the Holy Land. The research method used is descriptive qualitative method with data collection techniques using primary data through observation and in-depth interviews with a Public Relations officer of PT. Grand Mecca Holidays and one of the users or pilgrims of the Umrah worship travel service. The results showed that the Synergy of Public Relations and Journalistic Media of PT. Grand Mecca Holidays has a way of trying to maintain good cooperation with the Ministry of Religion of North Sumatra in getting users of Umrah and Hajj travel services. So that they can continue to be committed to the Ministry of Religion of North Sumatra. The results of this study are expected to provide insight to the public and other travel providers of Umrah and Hajj services to be able to increase cooperation with companies or other institutions through journalistic and public relations media.
 Keywords: synergy, public relations, media journalism.

Disembodied Congregations: Covid-19 and the Rising Phenomenon of Internet Churches among Pentecostal Churches in Lagos, Nigeria

Abstract One could argue that smartphones and computers are an intrinsic part of our daily lives. However, the sudden boom of online fellowships is a recent event in the history of Nigerian Pentecostalism. In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Nigerian government issued several bans on large gatherings and public religious worship. For example, many Pentecostal churches suspended physical meetings and at first only posted sermons online before turning to Zoom to hold services and, much later, small-group meetings through online applications to serve as the “synagogues”. Therefore, many Pentecostal churches in Nigeria were confronted with new problems of organising, ministering and catering for the spiritual needs of their members. This article addresses these challenges by drawing data from a combination of community observation and interviews with mostly Pentecostal church members. To understand the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on religious gathering in Lagos State, 15 semi-structured interviews were carried out through voice-note messages due to lockdown and physical distancing rules.

Religious Moderation in Indonesian Context

This paper aims to explore the concept of religious moderation across Islamic history within Indonesian context. The method used is qualitative with a historical approach. The historical approach is used to reformulate the concept of religious moderation in modern times and classical times. The results showed that religious moderation in modern times correlates with religious moderation in classical times. Although the term religious moderation was only promoted by the Ministry of Religious Affairs of Indonesia in 2019, in terms of practice it has been carried out by the Prophet who was then continued by the companions and the people after him. Classical and modern religious moderation both focus on establishing harmonious and peaceful social relations with people of different religions. However, there are some differences between modern and classical moderation, namely: First, in modern times religious moderation is focused on improving and maintaining relations between Muslims and people of other religions by providing several indicators related to this. Whereas in the classical period, this religious moderation focused on their freedom to embrace their religion without any coercion to convert to Islam. Second, in modern times the term moderation is used in the hope of being an antidote to the many conflicts, while in classical times religious moderation was practiced by the Prophet to serve as an example for the companions and subsequent people. Third, the practice of religious moderation in terms of tolerance towards people of other religions in modern times looks very tolerant by congratulating each other on the holidays of other religions, while in classical times religious moderation only centred on giving them the freedom to choose their religion and carry out their religious worship.

Ideological Framing, Mosques, and Conflict: Bargaining Position of Salafi Movement in Lombok, East Indonesia

Ideological Framing, Mosques, and Conflict: Bargaining Position of Salafi Movement in Lombok, East Indonesia

Types and Role of Bows in Modern Vietnamese Culture

Recent decades have seen a drastic increase of academic interest in non-verbal communication of various ethnic groups. However, gestural behaviour of the Vietnamese, particularly in the sphere of etiquette, has been rarely analyzed by modern scholars. Research papers on this topic describe etiquette gestures of Vietnamese culture, especially bows, vaguely and sketchily. Although in the past bows used to be widespread in Vietnam, nowadays the gesture seems to have lost its popularity, in comparison with Vietnam’s regional neighbours, such as China, South Korea or Japan. During the preliminary stage of the research, we identified many problem areas concerning rules and situations when people must bow, types, names, and physical forms of Vietnamese bows, which defined the purposes of the research. The goals of the paper are to analyze and systemize the descriptions of Vietnamese bows, rules and situations of their use collected in research literature; to analyze current articles on bows, published by Vietnamese media to understand public opinion about bows and to conduct an online-survey of Vietnamese people (71 people) to obtain additional data, which will help to get more accurate and up-to-date information on the subject. The objective of the research is to identify the role and types of bows in modern Vietnamese culture. The results of the paper show that Vietnamese culture has two basic types (forms) of bows — vái and lạy, with many reduced and intermediate forms, and a nod, which do not have any specific names and require further investigation. The research also identifies numerous etiquette situations where bows are still used and describes rules of bowing in three major contexts of social interaction, such as religious, ceremonial and every-day communication. The results of the media articles and survey analyses show that bows, banned by the Vietnamese Communist Party several decades ago, are gradually starting to acquire more significance in modern society than they had in the past, particularly in business sphere and during religious worships. The results of the paper are not final as the research has outlined new vectors and areas of investigation that require field studies in the country.

Ecoworship and Federal Environmental Law


 
 
 As the growing land stewardship movement has joined with rising evangelical environmentalism, religious worship has intersected with ecological protection to spark the rise of a new variety of ecoworship. Given the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent willingness to expand constitu- tional protections for religious exercise and trim bulwarks against Establishment Clause challenges, religious claimants now have bolstered powers to assert exemptions from governmental mandates based on their free exercise of faith. The growing role of faith-based environmentalism and institutional religions in private environmental protection will likely lead to similar claims for religious exemptions for pro-environmental activism based on faith. Most legal scholarship so far has squarely focused on the general foundational question of how federal and state constitutional laws apply to protect religiously motivated actions both within and outside environmental law.
 This Article takes a different tack. Federal environmental law is over- whelmingly statutory, and state environmental laws rely on a similar base. It is time to re-read these statutes through the newly expanded constitutional lens. This path yields two notable results. First, the increased accommodation for Free Exercise claims and revamped Establishment Clause parameters will inevitably shape the way that courts will interpret environmental statutes that impinge on religious activities. This interpretive tendency has a deep historical provenance in federal and state courts, although it is difficult to extract from the outsized historical shadow of Holy Trinity Church v. United States. Second, an altered interpretation of federal statutory terms through the new religious exercise lens could grant special status to proactive environmental initiatives impelled by religious beliefs, as essentially protected environmental worship. This reinterpreted statutory language could expand standing for certain claimants raising federal statutory claims, force the federal government to reassess the way it selects clean-up remedies or environmental permit limits in certain contexts, redefine the scope of environmental justice policies, and alter the degree of regulatory limitations on environmentally protective uses of land by religious actors.
 
 

“Strasbourg Miracles of the Blessed Mary” and the Influence of the City Cathedral Church on Pilgrimages in Alsace in the 13th Century

The relevance of the research topic is determined by the historical continuity of the cultural traditions and models of religious worship of objects of spiritual heritage in the urban habitat as well as their [traditions and models] variability depending on the particular circumstances. The purpose of the study is to identify the forms of influence of a unique place of concentration of the spiritual life namely the Strasbourg Cathedral of the Virgin Mary on the individual strategies of medieval pilgrims in the particular region. During the process of research the particular interest presents the writing “Strasbourg Miracles of the Blessed Mary” containing episodes of the miraculous events and healings which took place in the Strasbourg Cathedral church in 1280. In the process of analyzing this and other historical writings we got an overview of the pilgrims’ cultural perception of the Cathedral construction process, their religious leisure and interaction with urban dwellers and habitat. It was found that in the process of engagement between pilgrims and urban dwellers with a specific place of concentration of spiritual life (taking into account the scale of its [place] of cultural and religious significance for the region) there are seen special, exalted forms of religious activity namely public statements about the miraculous healings etc. The act of “miracle”, in its turn, becomes into a ceremony where a participant has a high social value and presents the primary interest for spectators and witnesses. Thus, the study expands the existing scientific ideas about the forms and peculiarities of the medieval Catholic piety completing their general picture by an episode of the faithful’s interaction with a unique religious object.

Peran Guru PAI Dalam Peningkatan Kedisiplinan Siswa Di SMPN 2 Mojoagung Jombang

The teacher has the responsibility to see everything that happens in the classroom to help the student's development process. The teacher is someone who is able to carry out educational actions in an educational situation or a person who is mature, honest, patient, physically and mentally healthy, virtuous, expert, skilled, open, fair and compassionate. Therefore teachers need to accustom students to live regularly by always being given exemplary and coaching related to discipline. Being a PAI teacher in carrying out his role is supposed to instill the values ??of discipline in students, because discipline has an integral part of the legitimacy of religious worship. The aims of this study are 1. To describe the role of Islamic education teachers in improving student discipline at SMPN 2 Mojoagung Jombang. 2. To describe the form of student discipline at SMPN 2 Mojoagung Jombang. This study uses qualitative research using data collection techniques through observation, interviews, and documentation. The results of this study indicate that: 1. The role of PAI teachers in improving student discipline. As for the teacher as a motivator, the teacher as a guide, as well as the driving factor for the teacher in increasing student discipline at SMPN 2 Mojoagung. 2. The application of student discipline at SMPN 2 Mojoagung Jombang, namely the habituation method and the punishment method.

On Devotional Artworks: A Non-Invasive Characterization of Pigments of the Madonna della Croce Wall Painting in Triggiano (Bari, Southern Italy)

Devotional artworks represent a valuable form of art, as they are evidence of religious worship and the demo-ethno-anthropological, as well as historical-artistic, heritage of a community, which is why they definitely belong to the cultural identity of a geographic area. The Madonna della Croce wall painting is an example of devotional art preserved today in the homonymous church in Triggiano (Bari, Italy). The presented study concerns the characterization of pigments used in the painting. The identification of pictorial materials had the aim of providing a contribution to knowledge about the painting, the history of restorations, and other historical events, and to increase the information about the Apulian painting to better reconstruct the social, cultural, and economic contexts of the region. Through a non-invasive and fast methodological approach, including portable digital microscopy, colorimetry, fibre optic reflectance spectroscopy (FORS), and X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (XRF); 42 points considered on coloured areas were analysed in situ, and results on pigment identification were achieved. According to the local wall painting tradition, red and yellow ochres, green earth, vine black, massicot, and lead-tin yellow were found. Furthermore, both indigo-woad dye and a mixture of vine black and yellow ochre to obtain a blueish colour on the Virgin’s mantle were highlighted.

SELF IDENTITY AND RELIGIOSITY OF MADURESE PEOPLE: INDIGENOUS CONCEPTS BASED ON THE PERSPECTIVE OF MADURESE YOUTH

This study aims to explain the identity and religiosity of the Madurese based on the perspective of Madurese teenagers. The concept of identity and religiosity refers to the concept of indigenous or local wisdom of Madurese culture. This study uses a qualitative method with a descriptive approach in explaining the research study. The Sources of data used in this study are primary and secondary data sources. Sources of primary data were obtained directly from Madurese youth using FGD and semi-structured interviews with 7 students of class X in Pamekasan Regency. Each student meets the requirements of being born and raised in Madura and his parents are Madurese. While the secondary data sources are data obtained from the study of books, literature, and the results of previous research on the Madurese which have relevance to the focus of this research. Interviews with Madurese cultural observers were conducted to complete primary and secondary data as a triangulation of data sources, especially to obtain information on the concept of religiosity and identity indigenously or by referring to the local wisdom of Madurese culture. The analysis of the results of the study explains that being a Madurese is having high self-esteem, of course, self-esteem in the indigenous Madurese concept, namely ajina aba ", temperamental-tempered, hardworking, overly confident, and Muslim. If they are not Muslims, then they are not Madurese. Madurese teenagers are described as Islamic Religious with strong faith and devotion to Allah SWT and implemented in the implementation of the pillars of Islam. The factor of high religiosity in Madurese youth is seen in carrying out Islamic religious worship and practices. It can also be interpreted, many Madurese teenagers perform the five daily prayers, fast, pay zakat, and perform worship or ritual obligations in Islam. Empirical and theoretical studies explain the same finding, namely the Madurese are famous for their identity with Islam and uphold religious symbols as the embodiment of local wisdom values.

HYPNOTIC APPLICATION AND PSYCHOSOCIAL APPEAL IN CHRISTIAN IN CHRISTIAN RELIGIOUS WORSHIP IN CHURCHES IN YAKURR LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, CROSS RIVER STATE, NIGERIA

This study focused on examination of the practice of hypnotic principle in church worship in the area of study as well as the evaluation of the conscious awareness of this practice by officiating ministers and the adherents of the church faith in their different denominations. Also, the psychosocial benefits of this system forms significant objective of the time of enquiry. The introduction directs attention to the overall perspectives of the current ministration of church worship by the different sects as well as the basis of hypnotic inclusion in religious worship. From the introduction the problem statement was gleaned from the standpoint of the need to unravel the essential basis of hypnotic adoption in religious worship and its significance inherent social and psychological emancipation of members or adherents. The key outline of the study objectives were streamlined on the basis of the problem statement. The literature was reviewed based on clarification on the essence of etymology of hypnosis and its application n religious circle from the standpoint of Emmanuelist movement which took place in the Emmanuel Episcopal l church of Boston, U.S.A in the early part of the 20th century. The movement flourished but later came under repudiation by religious and medical opponents in the later years of the 20th century A.D. The literature also embodies the consideration of the social and psychological benefits of hypnosis.The methodology considered relevant themes such as area of study, population and sampling techniques, instruments for data collection, method or procedure for data collection and data analysis technique. Following statistical analysis of result using One-way analysis of variance the null hypothesis was accepted based on the finding that the Fcal value of 0.0368 is les that the critical value of 4.51 at 0.05 degree of significance. This indicates that there is no significant impact of hypnotic application in religious worship in the area of study .

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