scholarly journals Spiritual Guidance for Jemaah of Santri Luwung

SMART ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (01) ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
Arnis Rachmadhani
Keyword(s):  
Religious Movement ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
New Religious Movements ◽  
Spiritual Guidance ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Religious Activities ◽  
Interactive Analysis ◽  
Central Java ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Wide Range

<p>This qualitative research is about the phenomenon of contemporary religious life marked by the emergence of new religious movements. This religious phenomenon pared in three ways data collection techniques are observation, interview, and documentation which is analyzed with an interactive analysis model. Pasujudan Santri Luwung Padepokan Bumi Arum is growing rapidly in the regency of Sragen, the province of Central Java, when explored in depth, their teaching is kejawen meeting with Islam. This teaching as a new religious movement phenomenon, able to give a touch of social reality for member of Santri Luwung through spiritual guidance in a wide range of religious activities, namely in da’wah programs, social, educational, health, economics, and the arts.</p>

scholarly journals Small religious group in the urban environment: failure of the Bahá’i project

2021 ◽  
pp. 79-89
Author(s):  
Svetlana V. Ryazanova
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Religious Group ◽  
Religious Movement ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
Social Characteristics ◽  
New Religious Movements ◽  
Religious Activities ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Social

The article is devoted to the study of the proselytising strategy of the Bahá’i community in the Perm Territory that reflects the situation with this religious group in the Russian Federation as a whole. Bahá’i s are seen as one of the new religious projects of the end of the last century, claiming a wide coverage of believers and being unable to fulfill the task. The main research question is to identify obstacles for effective proselytising activities of new religious movements as features of the religious groups. The aim of the work is to identify effective mechanisms for recruiting neophytes in the urban environment, which involves channels for transmitting teachings, main factors of the proselytic potential of religion, the connection between doctrine, cult practice and the success of the missionary activity. The article presents the first experience of a sociological analysis of the regional Bahá’i community as a new religious movement in the post-Soviet space. The study is built on a set of included observations, results from a survey of church members, a series of semi-structured interviews, an analysis of sacred literature and information from social networks. Particular attention is paid to the specifics of the spread of the Bahá’i faith in the country and the social characteristics of the neophytes. The main types of religious and near-religious activities of the community and ways of attracting new followers are analysed. The reasons and factors of the curtailment of activity and decline of the community, as well as the chosen development tactics at the present stage, are identified. The Bahá’i community is treated as uncompetitive in the religious space of the region and country. This is determined by the high value of the individual qualities of the followers, a low degree of external attractiveness, and poor adaptation to the religious needs of the population. The analysis of the community allows us to establish the place of new religious movements in the social and cultural space and the prospects for their development as local communities.

New Religious Movements

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean Hanretta
Keyword(s):  
Religious Movements ◽  
New Religious Movements ◽  
Spiritual Guidance ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Religious Knowledge ◽  
Territorial Expansion ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

The late twentieth century saw the rise of new forms of religiosity and a growing consensus about the utility of the concept of ‘religion’ to describe a wide range of beliefs and practices. The idea that Africa was perpetually in need of modernization and socio-economic ‘development’ influenced the theological and practical evolution of Christianity, Islam, and various ‘indigenous’ spiritual traditions. Pentecostalism and reformist Islam shared a turn towards the personalization of spiritual quests and a sense of rupture with the recent past. New movements attacked existing institutions, paths to religious knowledge and authority, and the perceived routinization of spiritual guidance. New patterns of connection between Africa and the rest of the world produced complex mixings and inventions separate from the movement of peoples or the territorial expansion of empires. Further research is needed into the links between the political and financial institutions shaping recent forms of globalization and the intellectual and social content of new religious movements.

The Study of Hindu New Religious Movements

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 6-19
Author(s):  
Gene R. Thursby
Keyword(s):  
Transcendental Meditation ◽  
Social World ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
New Religious Movements ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Social Harmony ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Arya Samaj

The category of Hindu new religious movements is conventional and useful, but has imprecise boundaries. Scholars tend to include within it some groups that have claimed they are not Hindu (Arya Samaj, Ramakrishna Mission) or not religious (Transcendental Meditation). Within its wide range are world-affirming groups dedicated to transforming the physical and social world as well as world-transcending groups that find the status of the world doubtful and their purpose at another level or in another realm. The four articles in this special issue of Nova Religio on Hindu new religious movements represent several aspects of this category, and the potential for accommodation of basic differences, social harmony, and even world-transcendence.

scholarly journals New Religious Movements: A Bibliographic Introduction

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Zeller
Keyword(s):  
Religious Movement ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
Online Resources ◽  
New Religious Movements ◽  
Book Series ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Academic Study

This article provides a map to the bibliographic landscape for the academic study of new religious movements (NRMs). The article first considers the development of the scholarly subfield, including debates over the nature of the concept of ‘new religious movement’ and recent scholarship on the nature of this key term, as well as the most salient research areas and concepts. Next, the article introduces the most important bibliographic materials in the subfield: journals focusing on the study of NRMs, textbooks and reference volumes, book series and monographic literature, online resources, and primary sources.

scholarly journals Strategi Pengelolaan Wisata Syariah Kota Pekanbaru

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 326-333
Author(s):  
Mufti Hasan Alfani ◽  
Putri Nuraini ◽  
Muhammad Arif ◽  
Ag Maulana
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Strategy Management ◽  
Main Task ◽  
Government Control ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Religious Activities ◽  
Interactive Analysis ◽  
Tourism Management ◽  
Religious Tourism ◽  
Tourism Destinations

The legacy of the Malay kingdom of Riau has become a valuable historical site as one of the areas of the Islamic kingdom which has become a current sharia tourist destination. The purpose of this study was to determine the management strategy of the Riau Province An-Nur Grand Mosque, the Ar-Rahman Grand Mosque in Pekanbaru City, and the Senapelan Grand Mosque in Pekanbaru City as religious tourism destinations in Pekanbaru City. The techniques used in data collection are observation, interviews, documentation, and analyzing books related to research. The data analysis used was an interactive analysis model. The results of this study illustrate that 1. The implementation of planning in Islamic tourism in Pekanbaru City through the formation of the board 2. The implementation of the organization that has been formed by the management in managing the mosque as a religious tourism destination based on the main task and schedule made as a form of board coordination 3. Implementation of the movement has followed training and comparative studies of mosque administrators as religious tourism and providing salaries or wages to administrators 4. Controlling Implementation of Sharia Tourism management in Pekanbaru City is included in asset instruments under government control and supervision as the Pekanbaru City Grand Mosque 5. Marketing through promotion has been implemented with several types of online and print media. 6. Financial implementation is carried out with a system of transparency and accountability based on predetermined standards. 7. Operational implementation of activities that have been carried out routine mosques such as prayer 5 times, majlis taklim, tabligh akbar and other religious activities 8. The application of R & D from the development of mosques as religious tourism destinations in Pekanbaru City received attention from the local government as a Raya and Paripurna mosque that has budget and expenditure on the running of mosque activities in the religious activity program in Pekanbaru City 9. Implementation of the Information System Mosque has been carried out in the information system on the management of religious tourism at the Great Mosque of An-Nur, Riau Province. Keywords: Strategy, Management, Sharia Tourism

scholarly journals The articulation between evolutionism and creationism in New Religious Movements: Two South American case studies

2020 ◽  
pp. 179-194
Author(s):  
Vitor Campanha
Keyword(s):  
Biological Evolution ◽  
New Age ◽  
Religious Movement ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
New Religious Movements ◽  
The Internet ◽  
South American ◽  
Roman Catholicism ◽  
Religious Perspectives ◽  
American Case

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how certain religious perspectives present nuances between the concepts of creation and evolution. Although public debate characterizes them as polarized concepts, it is important to understand how contemporary religious expressions resignify them and create arrangements in which biological evolution and creation by the intervention of higher beings are presented in a continuum. It begins with a brief introduction on the relations and reframing of Science concepts in the New Religious Movements along with New Age thinking. Then we have two examples which allows us to analyze this evolution-creation synthesis. First, I will present a South American New Religious Movement that promotes bricolage between the New Age, Roman Catholicism and contacts with extraterrestrials. Then, I will analyze the thoughts of a Brazilian medium who disseminates lectures along with the channeling of ETs in videos on the internet, mixing the elements of ufology with cosmologies of Brazilian religions such as Kardecist spiritism and Umbanda. These two examples share the idea of ​​the intervention of extraterrestrial or superior beings in human evolution, thus, articulating the concepts of evolution and creation. Therefore, in these arrangements it is possible to observe an inseparability between spiritual and material, evolution and creation or biological and spiritual evolution.

“What if it is actually true?”

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 74-100
Author(s):  
Joanna Urbańczyk
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Spiritual Development ◽  
General Characteristic ◽  
Religious Movement ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
New Religious Movements ◽  
Common Elements ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Generational Shift ◽  
Former Soviet Republics

The Siberian community of Vissarion (Last Testament Church) is a new religious movement established at the beginning of 1990s, after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Among its members (estimated at several thousand), who come mainly from Russia and former Soviet republics, there is also a large group of Vissarion’s followers from Eastern Europe. In this article, I present a general characteristic of the movement and four stories from adherents. I indicate common elements in their narratives of coming to and living in the community, such as belief in continuing spiritual development, the importance of living close to nature, the focus on feelings, and concern for future generations. I also point out a “generational shift” among members of the importance of the breakup of the Soviet Union and suggest the need for scholarly consideration of its decreasing significance for adherents of new religious movements in the post-socialist region.

Significance and Purpose of the “Anti-Cult Movement” in Facilitating Disaffiliation From a New Religious Movement

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-244
Author(s):  
Dominiek Coates
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Self ◽  
The Self ◽  
Religious Movement ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
New Religious Movements ◽  
Symbolic Interactionist ◽  
Identity Function ◽  
Study Report ◽  
The Way

The current study investigates the experiences of 23 former members of New Religious Movements (NRMs) or cults with anti-cult practices and discourses in Australia. All the participants in this study report some involvement with anti-cult practices and/or engagement with brainwashing explanations of NRM affiliations; however, they describe the significance of these anti-cult resources for their sense of self in different ways. The findings suggests that for some former members anti-cult resources, in particular the brainwashing discourses, merely served as a convenient account through which to explain or justify their former NRM affiliation and manage embarrassment or possible stigmatisation, while for others these resources served an important identity function at a time of loss and uncertainty. These participants describe their involvement with anti-cult practices as a much needed identity resource in which they could anchor their sense of self following the dramatic loss of identity associated with NRM disaffiliation. To make sense of the variations in the way in which anti-cult practices and discourses informed the participants” sense of self Symbolic Interactionist understandings of the self are applied.

scholarly journals The Unificationist Funerary Tradition

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 258
Author(s):  
Lukas Pokorny
Keyword(s):  
First Generation ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Religious Movement ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
New Religious Movements ◽  
South Korean

This paper explores the distinctive funerary tradition of the Unification Movement, a globally active South Korean new religious movement founded in 1954. Its funerary tradition centres on the so-called Seonghwa (formerly Seunghwa) Ceremony, which was introduced in January 1984. The paper traces the doctrinal context and the origin narrative before delineating the ceremony itself in its Korean expression, including its preparatory and follow-up stages, as well as its short-lived adaptation for non-members. Notably, with more and more first-generation adherents passing away—most visibly in respect to the leadership culminating in the Seonghwa Ceremony of the founder himself in 2012—the funerary tradition has become an increasingly conspicuous property of the Unificationist lifeworld. This paper adds to a largely uncharted area in the study of East Asian new religious movements, namely the examination of their distinctive deathscapes, as spelled out in theory and practice.

Socio-Religious Visionaries in Bulgaria (1920–1950s): the Christo Oustabachieff Case

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 195-218
Author(s):  
Georgeta Nazarska
Keyword(s):  
Religious Fundamentalism ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
New Religious Movements ◽  
National Defense ◽  
Spiritual Renewal ◽  
Religious Activities ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
Democratic Tradition ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Political Activist

The article is a case study of the life, work and ideas of the Bulgarian political and religious figure Christo Oustabachieff (1871–1953). Beginning his career as a financial official, political activist and founder of one of the first xenophobic organizations, after the First World War he devoted himself entirely to religious activities: he founded the “Good Samaritan” Religious Society (1921), became leader and ideologist of the Orthodox Holy Society for Spiritual Renewal of the Bulgarian people (1924), of the "Greater (Peaceful) Bulgaria" Union (Political Party) (1926–1944), of the "St. John of Rila” National Defense Organization (1933) and of the Slavic-Bulgarian People's Christian Union (1945–1953). His ideas have a religious and political character and represent a prototype of the Christian Democratic tradition in Bulgaria. In the context of the post-WW1 crisis and the widespread of the New Religious Movements, he declared himself a spiritual leader and initially guided his numerous followers with oral prophecies, revelations and dreams. Developed in the 1930s in written messages, they acquired an eclectic character, uniting religious fundamentalism, messianism and prophetism. Oustabachieff 's political visions in the 1930s–1940s were strongly influenced by authoritarianism, nationalism, xenophobia, and anti-Semitism. Their core was an idea of a Slavic monarchy – based on Christian Democratic values, a future center of a Balkan federation, and a realized Medieval and Bulgaria Revival period ideal of "Great Bulgaria”. The study uses historical approach and is based on unknown archival sources, combined with data from periodicals and published works of Oustabachieff.

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