Lifelong Spiritual Learning: Religious Older Adults Going Digital

This qualitative study sought to explore the role of online religious learning in alleviating distress and enhancing wellbeing in later life. Twenty-six religious Jewish individuals aged 70–96 were personally trained in their homes to use an experimental spiritual learning website. Their experiences were documented for six months via interviews, media ethnographies, and monthly follow-ups. Analysis identified the participants’ initial ambivalent attitudes towards online religious learning, which extended the discussion of cultural barriers to the integration of digital technologies for religious observance and the maintenance of communal boundaries. However, this research group’s experience highlighted the intellectual, social, and emotional benefits garnered by participation in online religious learning in later life. The findings indicate that this informal educational channel may supplement religious praxis and fill the lives of older religious adults with positive rewards and, thereby, improve their psychological and social wellbeing.

ANALISIS PEMBELAJARAN ROHANI ANAK PRASEKOLAH BERBASIS DARING DI MASA PANDEMIK COVID-19

Penelitian ini dilatar belakangi oleh adanya kebijakan baru tentang pelaksanaan Belajar dari Rumah (BDR) di masa pandemik COVID-19 yang mengutamakan keselamatan dan kesehatan peserta didik dan pengelola di lembaga PAUD. Kondisi ini berimplikasi pada pembelajaran kerohanian PAUD di mana seharusnya dilaksanakan dengan tatap muka. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengetahui informasi edukasi rohani anak prasekolah dalam jaringan yang mencangkup proses pembelajaran hingga penilaian guru terhadap pembelajaran selama masa pandemik. Pendekatan kualitatif digunakan untuk menggali data melalui wawancara dan dokumentasi terhadap pelaksanaan pembelajaran rohani anak. Penelitian dilakukan pada sebuah Taman Kanak Kanak (TK) di Kota Yogyakarta dengan karakter keberagamaan agama. Partisipan penelitian adalah guru dan kepala sekolah. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa pelaksanaan pembelajaran rohani anak usia dini sesuai dengan Kurikulum 2013 selama sistem pembelajaran dalam jaringan. Pembelajaran dilaksanakan melalui pemberian tugas melalui panduan belajar anak selama satu minggu yang dikirimkan melalui media aplikasi Whatsapp Group orangtua siswa. Adapun materi pembelajaran rohani disesuaikan dengan agama masing-masing anak. Orangtua memandu anak dalam kegiatan rohani kemudian mendokumentasikan hasil belajar anak dalam bentuk video maupun foto. Evaluasi menunjukkan bahwa proses pembelajaran kurang efektif, karena minimnya kapasitas guru dan kurang optimal dalam memantau dan membimbing anak secara langsung ketika proses pembelajaran rohani. Hasil yang didapat adalah adanya sebagian anak yang kurang maksimal dalam mengikuti proses pembelajaran, sehingga hal ini berakibat pada penurunan penilaian pembelajaran rohani di lembaga PAUD. This research was motivated by the existence of a new policy on the implementation of Learning from Home (BDR) during the COVID-19 pandemic which prioritized the safety and health of students and all levels of educators at early childhood institutions. This condition has implications for such institutions, especially in early childhood spiritual education which should also be conducted online. This is a case study which aims to explore the online spiritual education for preschool children that covers the learning process and the teacher's assessment of learning during the pandemic. Qualitative approach was used to gather the information through interviews to teachers and headmasters and documentation on the implementation of children's online spiritual learning at TK Omah Dolanan Yogyakarta. The results show that the implementation of early childhood spiritual learning in this institution is in accordance with the 2013 curriculum during the online learning system. Learning is carried out through giving assignments in the form of broncasthing or children's study guides for one week which are sent through the WhastApp Group application media. The spiritual learning material is adjusted to the religion of each child. Parent guide children in spiritual activities then document their learning outcomes in the form of videos and pictures. The evaluation is not effective in the learning process, namely the lack of teacher capacity and the inadequacy in monitoring and guiding children during the spiritual learning process. Some children were not participating maximally in the learning process, so this resulted in a decrease in the assessment of spiritual learning in this early childhood institutions.

Hypnoteacing Sebagai Metode Alternatif Dalam Pembelajaran Materi Keagamaan

Orientation in spiritual education does not always run smoothly. One of the obstacles is related to how to use the right learning method in order to teach students spiritual intelligence properly and optimally. This study aims to explain the application of the hypnoteaching method in spiritual learning. This type of research is qualitative research in the form of a literature review. The main data source of this research is Muhammad Noer's thoughts in his book entitled Hypnoteaching For Success Learning. Meanwhile, the secondary data sources used were various studies that were relevant to the object of this research discussion. The results of this study concluded that the hypnoteaching method is a learning method that combines the teaching and learning process with hypnosis. This method can be used as a method in the spiritual learning process. In its application, the hypnoteaching method emphasizes the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor aspects of students through positive suggestions. With these steps, it is hoped that a more effective and enjoyable spiritual learning process can be realized.

Religious Volunteer Visitors in the Penal Context of Hong Kong

Religious faith plays a crucial role in the life of people in penal custody. Research generally focuses on the impact of religion on inmates’ rehabilitation. Studies on volunteers in prison receive scholarly attention but largely in regard to how they affect inmates. This study focuses on Christian visitors in prison and their motives, goals, and experiences. The study evaluates the responses of 152 Christian volunteer visitors around prisons in Hong Kong. The study shows that majority of them are at a time of their life when they are most strongly occupied by work and familial obligations and yet they take time off to visit people in prison. It offers evidence how visits to those in prison contribute to visitors’ own spiritual learning and to a changed view of those in prison. The findings of the study indicate that volunteers see themselves as active agents who help, teach, and transform.

APPLICATION OF HYPNOTEACHING METHOD IN SPIRITUAL VALUES LEARNING

This study aims to explain the application of hypnoteaching method in spiritual values learning. This type of research is library research. This research is qualitative research. The primary source used in this study is the thought of Muhammad Noer in his book entitled Hypnoteaching For Success Learning. This research concludes that the hypnoteaching method is a learning method that combines teaching and learning with hypnosis. This method can be used as one of the methods in the process of learning spiritual values. In its application, the hypnoteaching method emphasizes the cognitive, affective and psychomotor aspects of students through positive suggestions. With these steps, it is expected to create a more effective and enjoyable spiritual learning process. Keywords: Method, Hypnoteaching, Learning, Spiritual

Honda Chikaatsu’s Spiritual Learning as a Means of Bringing Blessings and Guiding the Nation

This article discusses the purpose, content and reception of the healing and spirit-possession methods of Honda Chikaatsu 本田親徳 (1822–1890) and his followers. It investigates what the methods were intended for, how they were practiced, and how they were received by the government, the common people and the elite. These methods were for all intents and purposes meant to benefit and glorify the new Imperial Japan under the Meiji government that Honda venerated and adored. Although the modernizing Meiji government outlawed such magico-religious practices, spirit-possession methods—and healing methods in particular—were in high demand among the faithful at shrines such as those where Honda’s disciples served as priests. At the same time, some very prominent individuals were intrigued by Honda’s spirit-possession methods and the strategic benefits they promised.

THE JAVANESE QUEST OF ISLAMIC SPIRITUALITY IN SULUK WUJIL: A SEMIOTIC READING

Javanese Islamic Literature was connected to Islamic mysticism and written in poem to express delicate and sophisticated doctrines. Poem is deemed to be able to go beyond literal meaning for it expresses notion through figurative languages. Suluk Wujil is a good example of such early Javanese Islamic literary work that features spiritual quest and teaching. Suluk Wujil tells about Wujil, a convert who wanted to reach the essence of the ultimate Truth. Wujil is symbolic figure carrying an important sufistic teaching as well as the revealing socio-religious discourse in the early development of Islam in Java. This article is aimed to reveal the content of Suluk Wujil using three steps of semiotic reading, i,e, narrative schema, primary sign discovery and syntagmatic as well as paradigmatic analysis. The paper shows, firstly, that narrative scheme of Suluk Wujils is proceeded by a complaint of Wujil who failed to get into The Ultimate Truth after ten years of spiritual learning in Bonang. Ratu Wahdat or Sunan Bonang taught him the way to get spiritual enlightenment along with endorsing spiritual enlightenment of Seh Malaya (Sunan Kalijaga). Secondly, the primary sign of the Wujil Suluk is the phrase "Arriving in Mecca", in the last part of the text. The phrase affirms the spiritual characteristic of Suluk Wujil, with concern to a spiritual journey to very truth of Islamic spirituality. Thirdly, the paradigmatic analysis shows that there are various signs parallel and oppositional in the same time. The combination of signs forms a synthesis which leads to a deeper understanding of the significance of the signs. The syntagmatic analysis leads to an understanding of oppositional, but complementary signs.

STRATEGI PEMBELAJARAN BERBASIS KECERDASAN JAMAK PADA MATA PELAJARAN PENDIDIKAN AGAMA ISLAM DAN BUDI PEKERTI DI SMP NEGERI 3 SENGKANG KABUPATEN WAJO

Multiple intelligence based learning strategies, namely preparation of learning by compiling lesson plans. The implementation of learning consists of preliminary activities (apperception and motivation) consisting of activities of the alpha zone, warmer, pre-teach and scene settings. The core activity is the activities of students facilitated to learn through nine types of intelligence namely linguistic / language intelligence, mathematical-logical, visual-spatial, kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, naturalistic, and existential / spiritual. Learning assessment is done authentically using 3 domains, namely cognitive, affective, and psychomotor. Application Results Multiple-based learning strategies can shape the creativity of students who are developed through personal aspects, namely appreciation to students in the form of reinforcement. The driver is inviting students to respect the results of opinions. The process is to invite students to think and conclude again the results of problem solving using their imagination and the product is the work in the form of wall displays.

Optimization of Financial Resources for Growth of Spiritual Learning (Nishkam Karma Yoga—Desire Less Action) for Stress Management in Business Corporate Sector

<p><em>This paper deals with the Optimization of Financial Resources for Growth of Spiritual Learning (Nishkam Karma Yoga—Desire Less action) for Stress Management in Business Corporate Sector. The concept of Nishkam Karma Yoga—Activity without Desire has been explained, and it’s role in improving the performance of the managers to optimize the working of the firms has been discussed with a reference to the control of the financial resources for the growth of Institutes of</em> <em>spiritual learning on the basis of experiments performed by framing some Questionnaires, followed by certain mathematical computations.</em><strong> </strong><em></em></p>