The Study of Islam Before and After September 11: A Provocation

2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 314-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron W. Hughes
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
September 11 ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Muslim Scholars ◽  
Academic Study

Abstract In the aftermath of September 11, the academic study of Islam has been one of the most sought-after areas of academic expertise throughout North America. The result is that many departments of Religious Studies have been eager either to develop or increase existing offerings in all things Islamic and Arabic. This strikes me as a good a time as any to reflect upon the nature of the relationship between Religious Studies and Islamic Studies. This article assumes that the integration of the latter into the former has not been easy or even successful. It provocatively argues that some of the manifold reasons behind such tensions emerge from the apologetics—found among both Muslim and non-Muslim scholars—inherent to the study of Islam. This confessionalism is the result of a complex amalgam of academic and non-academic forces.

Religious Studies and the Study of Islam: Mutual Misperceptions, Shared Promises

2017 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-43
Author(s):  
Christian Lange
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Institutional Framework ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Current Area ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
A Current

Abstract The relationship between scholars working in the field of Islamic Studies and those affiliating themselves with Religious Studies (in the Netherlands, but also beyond) is plagued by a number of mutual misperceptions. These misperceptions should, and in fact can, be overcome. To argue this point, I (1) sketch the institutional framework of Islamic and Religious Studies in the Netherlands; (2) discuss a current area of fruitful interaction, viz., the study of Islamic ritual; and (3) end by some methodological reflections on future possibilities for collaboration between the two disciplines.

scholarly journals Hubungan Kebermaknaan Hidup dan Keteraturan Melaksanakan Shalat dengan Psycholohycal Well-Being pada Mahasiswa

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-180
Author(s):  
Iin Yulianti ◽  
Regita Cahyani
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Significant Positive Relationship ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
A Value ◽  
Psychological Scales ◽  
The Relationship

PPsychologycal well-being affects mental health, social functioning, interpersonal relationships, health, and adaptability. There are several factors that influence psychologycal well-being, such as meaning, purpose in life, and religiosity. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between the meaningfulness of life and the regularity of praying with psychologycal well-being in the 2016 class year students at the Faculty of Usuluddin and Religious Studies of UIN Raden Intan Lampung. The hypothesis proposed in this study is that there is a relationship between the meaningfulness of life and the regularity of praying with psychologycal well-being in students. The subjects in this study were students in 2016 at the Faculty of Islamic Studies and Religious Studies of UIN Raden Intan Lampung totaling 70 people taken by propotionate random sampling technique. Data collection methods in this study used three psychological scales namely the psychological well-being scale with 33 items (α = 0.889), the scale of meaningfulness of life with 25 items (α = 0.843) and the regular scale for praying with 49 items (α = 0.958). The data that has been collected is then analyzed using multiple regression analysis techniques assisted by the SPSS 21.0 for Windows program. The results showed that Rx1.2y = 0.530 with a value of F = 13.082 with p = 0.000 (p <0.01) which means the hypothesis is accepted that there is a significant positive relationship between the meaningfulness of life and the regularity of prayer with psychologycal well-being in students with R2 = 0.281. The ability of life and regular prayers contributed 28.1% to psychologycal well-being. The second result with rx1y = 0.302 with p = 0.011 (p <0.05) which showed a significant positive relationship between meaningfulness of life with psychologycal well-being in the 2016 class year students at the Faculty of Usuluddin and Religious Studies of UIN Raden Intan Lampung. The third result with rx2y = 0.518 with p = 0,000 (p <0.05) which shows a significant positive relationship between the regularity of prayer and psychologycal well-being in students.

The Academic Study of Hadith in North America Universities

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 66-84
Author(s):  
Fatma Betül Altıntaş
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
North America ◽  
Research Area ◽  
World War ◽  
American Universities ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
General Acceptance ◽  
Current State ◽  
Academic Study

Scholarly interest in Islamic studies has increased over the last decade. The academic study of Islam in North America emerged from Orientalism; after World War II it gave way to area studies and, in the mid-twentieth century, started to be addressed as a separate research area. However, the subfield of Hadith studies remainsneglected. In comparison to its role and the approach at modern academic institutions in the Muslim world, Hadith studies in North American universities seem to have received attention mainly in terms of this body of literature’s authenticity. This paper uses qualitative research methods to provide an overview of the historical and contemporary academic study of this subfield and examine the space allocated to it within the broader Islamic studies curriculum. Examining and analyzing its legacy and current state in the academy will help us clarify the general acceptance of this subfield within those institutions.

Is the Study of Religions in the Eastern Europe still behind the Iron Curtain? Response to Gregory Alles, Barbara Krawcowicz and Stefan Ragaz

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-199
Author(s):  
Tomáš Bubík
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Iron Curtain ◽  
Review Articles ◽  
Scientific Atheism ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Academic Study

Abstract The text is a response to the review articles of Gregory Alles, Barbara Krawcowicz and Stefan Ragaz reviewing the book Studying Religions with the Iron Curtain Closed and Open: The Academic Study of Religion in Eastern Europe (Brill 2015). It discusses the book’s title, the relationship of religious studies to theology, and the relationship of current religious studies to scientific atheism.

scholarly journals Pedagogical Beliefs of Arab Mathematics and Religion Teachers in Northern Israel

1970 ◽  
pp. 279-290
Author(s):  
Chen Goldberg Chen Goldberg ◽  
Gamal Ishan
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Teachers ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
Pedagogical Beliefs ◽  
Educational Approach ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Western Education ◽  
Muslim Minority ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Study Hypothesis

The aim of the current study is to examine the relationship between the pedagogical beliefs of teachers and their profession and to examine how this relationship affects teachers’ self-efficacy perception, satisfaction, and other functional characteristics of the teacher within the educational system. More specifically, the study seeks to compare the pedagogical beliefs of Muslim teachers who teach Religion subjects (i.e. Islamic studies) and the pedagogical beliefs of teachers of secular studies (i.e. Mathematics). According to the proposed research model, the teaching profession (that is, teaching religious Islam or teaching Mathematics) divergently affects the nature of teachers’ pedagogical beliefs, through which they function and perceive their role as teachers. The focus of our study is Arab teachers of Islam versus Arab mathematics teachers, who reflect traditional pedagogical beliefs on two levels, first by selecting teachers belonging to the Muslim minority in Israel, but also in the context of the distinction between teaching. The study hypothesis suggests that there is a difference between the pedagogical beliefs of teachers of Islamic studies and the pedagogical beliefs of Mathematics teachers. In particular, it seeks to examine the claim that teachers of Islamic studies will have a strong traditional belief and weaker constructive belief compared to teachers of secular studies. This research hypothesis has not been confirmed. In fact, except in terms of teachers’ satisfaction, no differences between the two types of teachers were found. This might indicate a change in the Arab society which deviates from the traditional Islamic halakhic approach that focuses almost entirely on religious studies and adopts a more modernized and liberal educational approach, centered on a Western education model and secularism.

Locating Religion in South Asia: Islamicate Definitions and Categories

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilyse R Morgenstein Fuerst
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship

The category of Islam as a religion—as defined within religious studies discourses—informs Islamic studies across disciplines, even as it appears in fields that may not have methodological, theoretical, or topical overlaps with the study of religion. By locating Islamicate, South Asian definitions of religion as analogous, related, and, in some cases, influences to Euro American definitions of religion, this article troubles the relationship between the study of religion, definitions of religion, and non-European, non Christian actors. This essay contributes to the growing body of literature asking how and when native definitions of categories of (or like) religion have been incorporated or ignored within the broadest definitions and specifically how Islamicate texts contribute to the history of the study of religion.

scholarly journals Shaping Public Opinion for Confrontation: Catalan Independence Claims as Represented in Spanish, Catalan, Valencian, and Basque Editorials

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (9) ◽  
pp. 1040-1055 ◽  
Author(s):  
Enric Xicoy ◽  
Cristina Perales-García ◽  
Rafael Xambó
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
Basque Country ◽  
September 11 ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Independence Movement ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Relationship

Editorials represent a newspaper’s principal means of ideological positioning and serve to identify the attitude of each newspaper and its readership to some of the main actors in any given conflict, especially those that are political in nature. Catalonia’s independence movement has experienced a surge in recent years. The turning point came in July 2010, after Spain’s constitutional court ruled against some aspects of Catalonia’s Statute of Autonomy (the legislation regulating the relationship between the Catalan autonomous community and the Spanish state). The ruling annulled some of the articles of the statute. The demonstration in support of Catalan independence that took place on September 11, 2012, was considered the most important among several mass rallies held for this purpose over successive years on Catalonia’s National Day. This article presents the results of a qualitative and quantitative analysis of editorial articles published around these two key dates, with the goal of studying each newspaper’s treatment of political actors and their degree of identification with these actors. Their use of arguments aimed at persuading readers and legitimizing a given position during the specified time periods in 2010 and 2012 will also be studied. The study focuses on the editorial articles published by several newspapers in four distinct regional contexts: Catalonia, Valencia, the Basque Country, as well as the whole of Spain. The analyzed articles were published a few days before and after July 10, 2010, and September 11, 2012.

scholarly journals KAWASAN RELIGIUS DAN PRODUKSI RUANG DI LINGKUNGAN MASJID PATHOK NEGARA PLOSOKUNING YOGYAKARTA

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (01) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Rahmadi Agus Setiawan
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Social Production ◽  
Production Of Space ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Religious Rituals ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Strong Relation ◽  
The Relationship

Study of religion and territory (space) is a new phenomenon in recent dec­ades along with the tendency of religious studies that change from normative to con­tex­tual approach. Plosokuning village as a religious area becomes research ob­ject that examines the relationship between religion and space. Furthermore, this re­search will explore how this religious region is formed and how it affects the beha­vior of the people in this village.This study uses a social theory known as the production of space proposed by Henri Lefebvre. In this theory, space is a social production, and always related to the social reality that surrounds it. Space never existed and manifested itself or held itself. In other words space has a historical dimension that helped shape it. The social space also influences the way of thinking and acting of society that exists in the space, as well as uses as control and domination.From the historical approach, it is found that the religious area of Plosokun­ing is a product of the palace (kraton Yogyakarta) that makes Plosokuning as a mutihan area (place of worship). This religious area is intended as a bastion of the spirituality of the palace and the implementation of the royal philosophy known as Kiblat Papat Lima Pancer. In this philosophy, the palace is in the middle and sur­rounded by a spiritual fortress in the form of four Pathok Negara Mosques, one of which is the Pathok Negara Mosque in Plosokuning.The religious area of Plosokuning, which is a palace product, has an influ­ence on the Islamic religiosity of the Plosokuning community. This religious beha­vior can be proved by the emergence of cultural products, both tangible and intangi­ble cultures. Tangible cultures are like the emergence of some boarding schools (pesantren), some musholla (small mosques), Muslim housing, and majelis ta'lim (place for Islamic studies). While intangible culture such as the emergence of Is­lamic art, religious rituals, as well as Islamic religious norms in society. Plosokun­ing as religious area continues to be inherited from generation to generation by continu­ing to revive the Islamic culture, both tangible and intangible culture.The study of the Plosokuning community also shows a strong relation be­tween religious space and the behavior of the people. By the existing of the reli­gious area,  so the sacred character of religion becomes strong in the environment of Pathok Negara Mosque Plosokuning. As a sacred area, it becomes a shame (ta­boo) when people conduct behavior or actions that violate Islamic norms and tradi­tions. The social function of this religion is also reinforced by giving social sanc­tions for people who violate the teachings of Islam. Keywords: Islam, production of space, sacred, Yogyakarta.

scholarly journals Tarik-Ulur Antara Radikalisme dan Multikulturalisme dalam Studi Agama di Abad Ke 21

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Andi Eka Putra
Keyword(s):  
Religious Studies ◽  
Binary Opposition ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Political Discourses ◽  
The Awakening ◽  
Multicultural Diversity ◽  
The Face ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The rise of Islam mentioned by some observers of Islamic studies (Islamic studies) in the country often brings its own anomalies. The awakening often brings effects and effects that are often not expected. For example, the strengthening of notions that have not been so deeply rooted in the country, such as the understanding of terrorism and radicalism. Elsewhere, intellectuals and reviewers of the relationship of religions offer other forms such as multiculturalism. These are the two most striking faces of the Milineal or 21st century religious model: the face of radical diversity and the face of multicultural diversity. The first requires a single interpretation, the second puts forward a pluralist interpretation. If the radical face looks fierce, hard, then the multicultural face is more polite and open. Both typologies are theoretically and practically very fluid, and not as strict as the binary opposition between black and white. But both of them are quite representative of the latest variants of religion that can be found in a variety of political discourses, scientific discussions, writings in the form of news and articles in the news, Tolkshow, and serasehan. Both models are even included in the study of religious studies are almost as popular as the terms "normativity" and "historicity"

scholarly journals Encounters with Ultimacy?: Autobiographical and Critical Perspectives in the Academic Study of Religion

Open Theology ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 355-372
Author(s):  
Paul Hedges
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Mystical Experience ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Linguistic Power ◽  
Rudolf Otto ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Critical Perspectives ◽  
Academic Study

Abstract “Ultimacy,” it is argued, is not an area that academic studies in theology nor the study of religion can properly investigate; nevertheless, it is also illegitimate to argue therefore that claims to it are simply linguistic power plays. Using an autobiographical methodology, the author explores how their own “imagined” “mystical” experience and scholarly studies may shed light on approaching the study of religious experience, noting particularly work by Rudolf Otto, Robert Sharf, Gregory Shushan, and Ann Taves. Reflections are offered on studying religious experience, approaching ultimacy, and the relationship of theological and religious studies. Moreover, some critical and decolonial perspectives are brought to bear both on the author’s own work, academic studies, and contemporary debates around studying what may be termed “mysticism” or religious experience. The author also argues that the autobiographical and reflexive model offered herein may be a useful perspective for scholarship in the study of religion.

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