scholarly journals Islam and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Between Religious Practice and Health Protection

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aldona Maria Piwko
Keyword(s):  
Religious Practice ◽  
Health Protection ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Muslim Countries ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Rapid Transmission

AbstractThis paper concerns a problem, the global pandemic COVID-19, which has influenced religious practices with respect to health protection across the Muslim world. Rapid transmission of the virus between people has become a serious challenge and a threat to the health protection of many countries. The increase in the incidence of COVID-19 in the Muslim community took place during and after the pilgrimages to Iran's Qom and as a result of the Jamaat Tabligh movement meetings. However, restrictions on religious practices have become a platform for political discussions, especially among Muslim clergy. This paper is an analysis of the religious and political situation in Muslim countries, showing the use of Islam to achieve specific goals by the authorities, even at the price of the health and life of citizens.

scholarly journals Sufism and the Indonesian Islamic Revival

2001 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 701-729 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Day Howell
Keyword(s):  
Muslim Women ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Islamic Revival ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
Student Activity ◽  
Religious Law ◽  
School Girls

Like other parts of the muslim world, Indonesia has experienced an Islamic revival since the 1970s (cf. Hefner 1997; Jones 1980; Liddle 1996, 622–25; Muzaffar 1986; Schwarz 1994, 173–76; Tessler and Jesse 1996). To date, representations of Indonesia's Islamic revival have featured forms of religious practice and political activity concerned with what in the Sufi tradition is called the “outer” (lahir) expression of Islam: support for and observance of religious law (I.syariah, A.syari'at), including the practice of obligatory rituals. Thus commonly mentioned as evidence of a revival in Indonesia are such things as the growing numbers of mosques and prayer houses, the increasing popularity of head coverings (kerudung, jilbab) among Muslim women and school girls, the increasing usage of Islamic greetings, the more common sight of Muslims excusing themselves for daily prayers and attending services at their workplaces, the appearance of new forms of Islamic student activity on university campuses, strong popular agitation against government actions seen as prejudicial to the Muslim community, and the establishment in 1991 of an Islamic bank.

scholarly journals O valor da viagem entre a cristandade e o mundo muçulmano medieval

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (8) ◽  
pp. 273
Author(s):  
Augusto Rocha
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
The Other ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Value Of Knowledge ◽  
Medieval Christianity ◽  
The Middle Ages

Partindo de André Miatello e Beatriz Bissio, realiza-se uma revisão bibliográfica com o intuito de demonstrar o diferente valor da viagem para a cristandade e para o mundo muçulmano, objetificando ampliar análises relativas ao Outro. Ao apresentar a perspectiva de que ao longo da Idade Média a viagem para o mundo cristão estava vinculada a prática religiosa, busca se demonstrar o modo como à busca por conhecimento fazia parte da prática da viagem para os muçulmanos, para além das práticas religiosas. Ao contrastar-se o valor do conhecimento entre Ocidente cristão e Oriente muçulmano, se define a importância de analisarmos o Outro com atenção, buscando ir além de estereótipos e perspectivas simplistas.Palavras-Chaves: A viagem medieval; Cristandade Medieval; Oriente muçulmano; Valor do conhecimento.Abstract Starting from André Miatello and Beatriz Bissio, a bibliographic review was carried out in order to demonstrate the different value of the trip to Christianity and to the Muslim world, aiming to expand analyzes related to the Other. By presenting the perspective that throughout the Middle Ages the trip to the Christian world was linked to religious practice, it seeks to demonstrate how the search for knowledge was part of the practice of traveling for Muslims, in addition to religious practices. By contrasting the value of knowledge between the Christian West and the Muslim East, the importance of carefully analyzing the Other is defined, seeking to go beyond stereotypes and simplistic perspectives.Keywords: The medieval journey; Medieval Christianity; Muslim East; Value of knowledge.

Analisis literatur sistematik: impak elemen spiritual terhadap kejayaan usahawan Muslim

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 434-443
Author(s):  
Syarul Azman Shaharuddin ◽  
Mariam Abd Majid ◽  
Muhammad Yusof Marlon Abdullah ◽  
Abur Hamdi Usman ◽  
Siti Nor Atiqah Amran
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Business Management ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Spiritual Values ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Best Effort ◽  
Internal Development ◽  
The World

The world of entrepreneurs in Malaysia has been led by Muslims. This has contributed to the growth of the Muslim economy. There are issues of failure in business management based on Islamic spiritual values. Spirituality is the process of the internal development of the soul. In Islam, it is based on faith in life, believing and trust in Allah Almighty, while application of the tauhid paradigm in both in this world and hereafter are related affairs. The purpose of the study is to analyze the potential of spiritual elements in the success of Muslim entrepreneurs. In this article, the researchers applied the Systematic Literature Review methodology, which focuses on research objectives. This article uses three (3) steps to analyze selected articles, i.e., by identification, screening, and eligibility. The outcome of this study had established five (5) journal articles that discussed spiritual elements that played an important role in the success of Muslim entrepreneurs, based on religious practices and values that were applied in entrepreneurship. The analysis found that the belief in Allah and the practice of religious values helped to enhance confidence and build the strong personality and traits of successful entrepreneurs. This is contributed by the elements of gratitude (Shukr), approval (riḍā), and reliance (tawakkal) after the best effort. Therefore, this study is expected to contribute to the research on entrepreneurship in Malaysia, especially for the Muslim community.

Thinking About Religious Texts Anthropologically

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-182
Author(s):  
Joel S. Kahn
Keyword(s):  
Muslim World ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Anthropology Of Religion ◽  
Religious Literature ◽  
Religious Texts

This paper addresses the conference themes by asking what contribution anthropology can make to the study of religious literature and heritage. In particular I will discuss ways in which anthropologists engage with religious texts. The paper begins with an assessment of what is probably the dominant approach to religious texts in mainstream anthropology and sociology, namely avoiding them and focussing instead on the religious ‘practices’ of ‘ordinary believers’. Arguing that this tendency to neglect the study of texts is ill-advised, the paper looks at the reasons why anthropologists need to engage with contemporary religious texts, particularly in their studies of/in the modern Muslim world. Drawing on the insights of anthropologist of religion Joel Robbins into what he called the “awkward relationship” between anthropology and theology, the paper proposes three possible ways in which anthropology might engage with religious literature. Based on a reading of three rather different modern texts on or about Islam, the strengths and weaknesses of each of the three modes of anthropological engagement is assessed and a case is made for Robbins’s third approach on the grounds that it offers a way out of the impasse in which mainstream anthropology of religion finds itself, caught as it is between the ‘emic’ and the ‘etic’, i.e. between ontologically different worlds.

scholarly journals Image of a Chinese Muslim in Late Ottoman Press

Turkology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (103) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
Z.Sh. Abdirashidov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Situation ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
The Political ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Chinese Muslims ◽  
Scientific Potential ◽  
Xix Century ◽  
Constitutional Revolution ◽  
Late Ottoman

At the end of the XIX century, the Muslim world, which fell into deep political and intellectual stagnation, was looking for ways out of this situation and raising the scientific potential of the Muslim community. The political crisis in the internal and external affairs of the most powerful Muslim state – Turkey, led in 1908 to the 2nd Constitutional Revolution. During this period that a press arose in Istanbul aimed at agitating or promoting the unity of Muslims under the rule of the Ottoman Sultan. The Turkish press, in order to fulfill the tasks assigned to it, first of all began to familiarize the Ottoman public with the life, political and social situation of Muslims living mainly in the southeastern territories of Asia. This article provides a preliminary analysis of the materials of the Turkish press, in particular, the magazines Ṣırāṭ-ı Müstaqīm, Ta‘āruf-i Müslimīn and Ḥikmet about Chinese Muslims, as well as made an attempt to identify the main ideological aspects of Ottoman society, their attitude to the socio-political situation of Chinese Muslims.

scholarly journals Join the Holy Spirit on Zoom

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-61
Author(s):  
Giuseppina Addo
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Sensory Experience ◽  
Theoretical Concept ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Worship Services ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
The Aesthetic

The COVID-19 global pandemic impacted all social relations, including the way religious communities engage in worship services. Due to strict social distancing protocols, the only viable solution for many congregations was online worship. This article investigates how platforms in cyberspace, such as Zoom, can provide a substitute for the core religious practices found in physical worship services, particularly for African Pentecostal believers who rely heavily on the aesthetic and sensory experience of their religious environment. Drawing on the theoretical concept of affordance, it is argued that digital affordances such as the chat box and emojis are used by believers to communicate affective moments arising from the sensory experience of worship. Members of the congregation become ‘digital spiritual hype people’ who render support to leaders in order to create and regenerate an affective environment where the presence of the Holy Spirit can be felt. The Holy Spirit, a fundamental pillar for Evangelical Christians, is understood as an embedded presence within the digital infrastructure. The internet connection, the phone and computers and screens are all re-appropriated as spiritual tools through which miraculous healing can be dispensed to believers in need. This research stands at a critical juncture between what might be termed the ‘pre-COVID era’ and the ‘post-COVID era’. As vaccination plans continue to roll out and social distancing measures are slowly being lifted, a ‘post-COVID era’ for African Pentecostals means negotiating the boundaries between online and offline spaces to fulfil core religious practices.

scholarly journals The Role Of Ethno-Confessional Leaders In The Political Life Of Society

2021 ◽  
Vol 03 (01) ◽  
pp. 364-373
Author(s):  
Khurshid A. Mirzakhmedov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
World Religion ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
The Media ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
Media Reports

In the article, the authors are based on the verdict that the main and most important element of world religion is the phenomenon of the prophets. However, at the beginning of the New century as a world. Similarly, in regional terms, the media reports about false prophets and insults to religious prophets, including the great prophet Muhammad, which negatively affects the feelings of believers in the Muslim world. According to the authors of the article, this seriously depresses the international political situation, since the cult of the Holy prophets is recognized as the meaning-forming basis of the Muslim faith. The article proves that the goal of Islam in the formation and development of the socio-cultural life of Muslims is based on the strengthening of spiritual and cultural identity, based on the priority of recognizing the Majesty of the prophet Muhammad, that any skepticism or insults is a threat to the entire system of Islam's ideology. The authors note that the life of the great Muhammad is generally accepted as an example of the righteous organization of the personal and collective life of the Muslim community, which forms the highest qualities of spiritual and moral culture among believers.

scholarly journals Globalization and the Real Practice of Marital Relations in Modern Muslim Countries

2004 ◽  
pp. 95-107
Author(s):  
T.N. Shamsutdynova-Lebedyuk
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Multidisciplinary Approach ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
Marital Relations ◽  
The Real ◽  
Muslim Countries ◽  
Real Practice

The word globalization has already made it into our lexicon, though the term itself has appeared relatively recently. It is believed that it was first introduced into scientific circulation by the American economist R. Robertson in 1985. Under this concept began to bring various processes of the exit of social life in all its dimensions (economic, political, cultural, informational, confessional, etc.) beyond individual countries and regions. The interpretation of this term in dictionaries, encyclopedias, as well as in individual studies often depends on the specificity of the field of knowledge in which it is considered. However, it can be stated that globalization is a universal phenomenon and its consideration requires a multidisciplinary approach. In this article, we are only attempting to consider globalization processes and their impact on marital relations in the modern Muslim world.

scholarly journals Religion in the structures and forms of manifestation of everyday life

2016 ◽  
pp. 6-10
Author(s):  
Yuri Boreyko
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Religious Experience ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Community Patterns ◽  
Ordinary Consciousness

The article analyzes the structure and manifestations of everyday life as the sphere of the empirical life of the individual believer and the religious community. Patterns of everyday life are not confined to certain  universal conceptual or value systems, as there is no ready-made standards and rules of their formation. Everyday life is intersubjective space of social relations in which religious individuals, communities, institutions self-identified based on form of reproduction of sociality. Religious everyday life determined by ordinary consciousness, practices, social aspects of life in the religious community, which are constituted by communication. The main religious structures of everyday life is mental cut ordinary religious consciousness, religious practice, religious experience, religious communication, religious stereotypes. Everyday life is the sphere of interaction between the social and the transcendental worlds, in which religious practices are an integral social relationships and the objectification of religious experience through the prism of individual membership to a specific religion, a means of inclusion of transcendence in the context of everyday life. Religious practices reflect understanding of a religious individual objects of the supernatural world, which is achieved through social experience, intersubjective interaction, experience of transcendental reality. The everyday life of the believing personality is formed in the dynamics of tradition and innovation, the mechanism of interaction of which affects the space of social existence. It exists within the private and public space and time, differing openness within the life-world. Continuous modification of everyday life, change its fundamental structures is determined by the process of modern social and technical transformation of society

Ritual Texts Dedicated to the White Old Man with Examples from the Classical Mongolian and Oirat (Clear Script) Textual Corpora

2020 ◽  
pp. 269-293
Author(s):  
Ágnes Birtalan
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Text Corpora ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Ritual Text

This chapter examines some examples from the ritual text corpora written in “Classical Mongolian” and in Oirat “Clear Script,” dedicated to the veneration of the Mongolian nature deity, the White Old Man. The deity’s mythology, iconography, and the variety of ritual genres connected to him have been extensively studied. However, the rich textual corpus, especially the newly discovered Oirat incense offering texts and the various aspects of the White Old Man’s contemporary popularity among all Mongolian ethnic groups, evokes the revision of the deity’s ethos. Being a primordial nature spirit of highest importance became integrated later into the Buddhist pantheon and returned as syncretic deity into the folk religious practice. The chapter examines the similarities and differences between the Classical Mongolian and Oirat offering text versions and provides a glimpse into the newly invented religious practices dedicated to the deity.

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