Knowledge system of religious communities in watershed conservation education; case studies in Islamic Boarding Schools in East Java and West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia

Meta-synthesis knowledge system (MSKS) is based on the meta-synthesis system approach and knowledge science. This article introduces the basic theory of meta-synthesis knowledge system like DMTMC system, model integration, opinion synthesis, consensus building and expert mining. Similar MSKS systems are illustrated. Case studies and examples are also explored in this article.

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Sites of Pluralism

10.1093/oso/9780190052713.001.0001 ◽

2019 ◽

Keyword(s):

Middle East ◽

Case Studies ◽

Social Cohesion ◽

Social Dynamics ◽

Religious Communities ◽

Education History ◽

Critical View ◽

Frame Difference ◽

Political Economic ◽

The Arab Spring

Scholars and policymakers, struggling to make sense of the ongoing chaos in the Middle East, have focused on the possible causes of the escalation in both inter-state and intra-state conflict. But the Arab Spring has shown the urgent need for new ways to frame difference, both practically and theoretically. For some, a fundamental incompatibility between different ethno-linguistic and religious communities lies at the root of these conflicts; these divisions are thought to impede any form of political resolution or social cohesion. But little work has been done to explore how these tensions manifest themselves in the communities of the Middle East. Sites of Pluralism fills this significant gap, going beyond a narrow focus on 'minorities' to examine the larger canvas of community politics in the Middle East. Through eight case studies from esteemed experts in law, education, history, architecture, anthropology and political science, this multi-disciplinary volume offers a critical view of the Middle East's diverse, pluralistic fabric: how it has evolved throughout history; how it influences current political, economic and social dynamics; and what possibilities it offers for the future.

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Living the Interfaith Family Life

Beyond Chrismukkah ◽

10.5149/northcarolina/9781469636368.003.0007 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 161-200

Author(s):

Samira K. Mehta

Keyword(s):

Case Studies ◽

Family Life ◽

Religious Communities ◽

Cognitive Differences ◽

Family Identity ◽

Unitarian Universalist ◽

Jewish Heritage ◽

Interfaith Community ◽

Do So

In 4 case studies, Chapter 6 articulates a range of ways that interfaith families practice both religions: the largely secular home that connects to both Christian and Jewish heritage; a family that sees themselves as having Christian and Jewish heritage in the context of a shared Unitarian Universalist community and faith; a family that belongs to an intentional interfaith community, the Interfaith Family Project; and a family that belongs to both Jewish and Mormon religious communities and is educating their children in both. These case studies represent the 4 main approaches that interfaith families “doing both” have found to navigate those tensions. Each of these families has found a different approach for combining their traditions and a unique language for framing their choices, but they all do so in ways that minimize the cognitive differences between the two traditions, highlights their similarities, and creates a cohesive narrative of family identity.

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The Limits of Reformist Religion

Break Every Yoke ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190949150.003.0004 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 105-152

Author(s):

Joshua Dubler ◽

Vincent W. Lloyd

Keyword(s):

Restorative Justice ◽

Case Studies ◽

Rapid Growth ◽

Prison System ◽

Religious Communities ◽

The 1960S ◽

Biblical Justice ◽

Sense Of Justice ◽

Prison Abolition ◽

Abolition Movement

How have American religious communities responded to the rapid growth of the prison? With ambivalence—as we show through case studies of Protestant responses. Protestant institutions consistently spoke out against the growing prison system, charging that it runs against a Christian sense of justice. But, from the 1960s, liberal Protestant elites no longer had the public’s ear. Evangelicals, led by Charles Colson, also spoke out about the prison system from the perspective of biblical justice, but their methods of engagement were too easily incorporated into the prison state. At the margins, meanwhile, Protestant institutions funded a variety of grassroots anti-prison organizations, which generated the restorative justice movement and the international prison abolition movement.

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The Image of Violence and the Study of Material Religion, an Introduction

Religions ◽

10.3390/rel11070370 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 11 (7) ◽

pp. 370

Author(s):

Lucien van Liere

Keyword(s):

Case Studies ◽

The Other ◽

Religious Communities ◽

Religious Conflicts ◽

Other Hand ◽

Religious Imagery ◽

Material Religion ◽

Directing Attention

This article studies the intersection of religion, materiality and violence. I will argue that pictures of violated bodies can contribute substantially to imageries of religious bonding. By directing attention towards the relation between pictures of violence, religious imagery and materiality, this article contributes to current research on religion-related violence and on material religion, two disciplinary fields that have not yet been clearly related. By focusing on the picturing of (violated) bodies as both sacred and communal objects, I will make clear how pictures of violence relate to social imageries of (religious) communities. Two short case-studies show how pictures of violence are recreated in the imagery of communities, causing new episodes of violence against anonymous representatives of the perpetrators. This article develops a perspective on the role pictures play in framing religious conflicts, which is often neglected in studies of religion-related violence. The study of religious matter, on the other hand, could explore more deeply the possibilities of studying the medialization of contentious pictures of human bodies in the understanding of conflicts as ‘religious’.

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Transforming Mosques Into a Containment Space During Natural Disasters; Browsing Through Recent Publications

International Journal of Engineering & Technology ◽

10.14419/ijet.v7i3.7.16219 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 7 (3.7) ◽

pp. 87

Author(s):

Hayder Jawad Shakir Haratyi ◽

Mohammad Yazah Mat Raschid ◽

Nangkula Utaberta

Keyword(s):

Natural Disasters ◽

Case Studies ◽

Religious Communities ◽

Muslim Community ◽

Future Studies ◽

The World ◽

Educational Component

Mosques around the world have been serving the Muslim community for religious and social purposes since the beginning of Islam. Mosques have played an important role to educate and create a peaceful yet proper cosmos for its visitors. However, nowadays, mosques are not only used for its educational component, but on occasion have been transformed into places to serve multi-ethnic and multi-religious communities during natural disasters. This paper is an attempt to surf through the recent publications that discuss natural disasters and the containment of such incidents. Four case studies have been presented to draw a picture of a mosque’s role before, during and after natural disasters. Although many researchers have investigated this role, there still is an urgent need to understand the several examples of cases globally and the issues the researchers have dealt with in such incidents. Selected papers have been reviewed to study the conclusions found in the most recent publications in this field. The aim of this paper is to find out the missing aspects and the gap in the literature for the purpose of future studies and designs.

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Signs of Reincarnation: Exploring Beliefs, Cases, and Theory by James Matlock

Journal of Scientific Exploration ◽

10.31275/20212089 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 35 (1) ◽

pp. 183-208

Author(s):

Michael Sudduth

Keyword(s):

Case Studies ◽

Interesting Case ◽

Religious Communities ◽

The Past ◽

Graduate Seminar ◽

Wide Range ◽

The World ◽

Social Prominence ◽

Core Idea ◽

Conceptual Confusion

James Matlock’s Signs of Reincarnation discusses important issues related to the belief in reincarnation. These include the historical and social prominence of this belief in various cultures around the world, especially its place in spiritual and religious communities. Matlock also explores data seemly suggestive of reincarnation and attempts to develop a theory of reincarnation that can account for the data collected by parapsychological investigators and researchers. In this way, Matlock aims to show that belief in reincarnation is defensible as a conclusion drawn from what he calls “signs” of reincarnation. Matlock does a good job mapping out the wide range of beliefs about reincarnation across time and culture. His description of various case studies and their salient features is highly informative. And his effort to develop a theory of reincarnation—what he calls a “processual soul theory”—is a laudable attempt at trying to accommodate the various details of interesting case studies and a core idea of reincarnation in the spiritual traditions of the world. Unfortunately, this is where my praise ends. Like many other books on the topic, Matlock’s book suffers from a variety of serious defects. The cavalcade of poor scholarship, conceptual confusion, and impoverished argumentation is particularly egregious given that Signs is allegedly based on the lecture notes for Matlock’s course on reincarnation pitched at the advanced undergraduate or Masters-level graduate seminar. In what follows, I’ll explain why Matlock’s book is paradigmatic of nearly everything that’s wrong with survival research over the past thirty years.

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PENANAMAN PENDIDIKAN MULTIKULTURAL DALAM MEMBENTUK AKHLAK SANTRI DI PONDOK PESANTREN NGALAH SENGONAGUNG

Multicultural Islamic Education ◽

10.35891/ims.v3i1.1742 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 27-40

Author(s):

Sifa ◽

Muhammad Nurhadi

Keyword(s):

Multicultural Education ◽

Life Stage ◽

Field Research ◽

Secondary Data ◽

Boarding School ◽

Boarding Schools ◽

Religious Communities ◽

Primary Data ◽

Human Beings ◽

Qualitative Phenomenological

This research is motivated by the diversity of Indonesia's multicultural, ethnic and religious communities, as well as multiculturalism. Islamic education that touches on the aspect of morality is Islamic boarding schools. Islamic boarding schools are institutions that istiqamah still maintain the tradition of peace, balance and harmony and continue to develop the principle s of ukhuwahIslamiyah, wathaniyah, and basyariyah in an effort to strengthen the Unitary Republic of Indonesia (NKRI). This type of research is qualitative phenomenological field research. The data in this study consisted of primary data and secondary data. While the technique of collecting data through {a} observation, {b} interview, and {c} documentation. To test the credibility of the data the author uses the data source triangulation technique. Then the data analysis is carried out at the beginning of the research to the conclusion. From the results of the research conducted, it can be concluded that: first, the principle of planting multicultural education in the Ngalah Islamic boarding school is rahmatanlil’alamin {protector for all circles}. Second, the implementation of planting multicultural education in the Islamic boarding school Ngalahala NU which includes 3 morals, namely Wathaniyah {Polite towards the State}, Insaniyah {Compassionate towards fellow human beings}, and Islamiyah {polite to fellow Muslims} and cling to the Pancasila and the 1945 Constitution , through habituation of attitudes, among others: a) Religious (religious), b) Humanist (humanity), c) Nationalist, d) democracye)tolerance with exemplary media caregiver, orientation of new santri, ta'lim ad diniyah, dormitory life, stage art and halaqoh. It was proven by the enthusiasm and istiqomah attitude of the santri in participating in the pesantren activities that had been scheduled starting daily, weekly, monthly and yearly.

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Function of Social Capital Embedded in Religious Communities at Times of Disaster: Cases of Disaster Relief Activity by a Muslim Community and a Soka Gakkai Community in Japan

Journal of Disaster Research ◽

10.20965/jdr.2018.p1323 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 13 (7) ◽

pp. 1323-1332

Author(s):

Nobuyuki Asai ◽

Keyword(s):

Social Capital ◽

Case Studies ◽

Disaster Relief ◽

Great East Japan Earthquake ◽

Religious Community ◽

Religious Communities ◽

Muslim Community ◽

Kumamoto Earthquake ◽

Soka Gakkai

In studies of disasters, cases of religious communities providing support to victims at times of disaster have been reported. Such support can be understood as a function of social capital within religious communities. This paper considers the case studies of disaster relief activities provided by a Muslim community and a Soka Gakkai Buddhist community in Japan after the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011 and the Kumamoto Earthquake in 2016. It also analyzes how each religious community functioned from the viewpoints of three kinds of social capital: “bonding,” “bridging,” and “linking” and identify challenges faced by religious communities at times of disaster.

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