scholarly journals REVISITING JAVANESE ISLAM

2022 ◽  
Vol 21 (02) ◽  
pp. 315-330
Author(s):  
Gedong Maulana Kabir
Keyword(s):  
Religious Life ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
World Religion ◽  
Indigenous Religion ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Ethical Commitment ◽  
The World

This article tends to revisiting Javanese Islamic studies. This study began from the European travelers’ period who noted some aspects of society such as the religious life. Those notes show the negative label that is addressed to the Javanese religious practices. These negative labels are often reproduced in Javanese Islam studies to this day. This article argues that the negative labels in Javanese Islamic studies tend to be misrepresentative. These kinds of results cannot be separated from certain paradigms in religious studies. There are two paradigms in the study of religion which are discussed in this article. First, the world religion paradigm. This paradigm, consciously or not, is often used in Javanese Islamic studies. The implication is Javanese religious practices are often portrayed as animist, syncretic, and so on. Second, the indigenous religion paradigm. This article elaborates this paradigm because of its potential in understanding Javanese Islamic religious practice more properly. The basis of this paradigm is intersubjective relation with ethical commitment, responsibility, and reciprocity.

Introduction

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Sun
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
World Religion ◽  
World Religions ◽  
The West ◽  
The World ◽  
Chinese Religions ◽  
Religious Nature

This introductory chapter talks about the confusions and controversies over the religious nature of Confucianism. It argues that the confusions come mainly from three sources. First, they come from the conceptualization of Confucianism as a world religion at the end of the nineteenth century in Europe, which was a historical product of the emergence of the “world religions” paradigm in the West. Second, they are caused by the problematic way in which Confucianism—and Chinese religions in general—has been studied and represented by questions which are based on a Judeo-Christian framework that cannot capture the complexity of Chinese religious life. Finally, confusion arises from the often contradictory development of Confucianism in today's China.

From Royal Prayer Books to Common Prayers: Religious Practices in Late Medieval and Early Modern Poland

2006 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 180-188
Author(s):  
Urszula Borkowska Osu
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Christian Education ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Royal Family ◽  
Liturgical Year ◽  
The World ◽  
Prayer Books ◽  
Insight Into

The Union between Poland and Lithuania, whose foundations were laid in 1386 with the baptism of Jagiello, the pagan grand duke of Lithuania, and his marriage to Queen Jadwiga (Hedwig), daughter of the last king of Poland, marked the beginning of a systematic Christianization to which the pagan Lithuanians offered remarkably little resistance. Recent research on religious practice under the ruling Jagiellonian dynasty in Poland and Lithuania (1386–1572) shows that royal piety was often designed to elicit participation at a popular level, cementing both the diffusion of Christian involvement across the newly unified kingdom, and in turn the role of the royal family at its centre. Surviving royal accounts and prayer books can offer a privileged insight into the personal religion of the monarchs and their relatives. These accounts, although only partially extant, constitute an objective source by which religious practices may be understood. Created for bureaucratic reasons, to keep order in the Treasurer’s Chancery, rather than to present the king as pious, they detail expenses for masses and other opera pia of the king and his family, recording the rhythm of royal religious practices – for the day, the week and the whole liturgical year. The accounts also provide evidence of sacramental practices and royal almsgiving. Pious literature composed at the behest of the Jagiellons, combined with extant pedagogical treatises and didactic sermons delivered in the presence of the monarch, is particularly valuable in admitting us into the world of royal Christian education.

scholarly journals TAREKAT SYEIKH MUHAMMAD ARSYAD AL-BANJARI: TELAAH ATAS KITAB KANZ AL-MA'RIFAH

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdul Hadi
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Religious Discourse ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Diverse Group ◽  
Religious Thought ◽  
Colour Patterns

Development of Sufism in the archipelago is one icon in view of the problems connected with the Sufi. Sufism is the diversity of colour patterns of thought of religious life, while religious practice to be a representation of the diversity of religious thought to be highly variable and often decorated with the interview "controversial" a very sharp. In the context of religious institutions belonging to the tarekat also have a variety of variants, so that a diverse group of tarekat scattered every where and have the characteristics of each in accordance with religious discourse and the "religious experience" developer congregation. In fact there are some "differences" between the executive tarekat in an area with other regions, although with the same tarekat. Sheikh Muhammad Arsyad Al-Banjary as a prolific writer in various fields of Islamic sciences, such as Tawheed, Fiqh and Sufism. Among his works is the Kanz al-patterned ma'rifah Sufism, but in some discussion related to religious practices and traditions of the congregation are very close, but the Sammaniyah tarekat who had been brought closer to the Al-Banjary Arsyad not so visible in Kanz al-Ma 'rifah but Syaziliyah tarekat who are more visible.

scholarly journals KOMERSIALISASI DAN TRANSFORMASI ORIENTASI PRAKTEK KEAGAMAAN : ANALISA E-PAYMENT “PAYTREN” USTADZ YUSUF MANSUR

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-137
Author(s):  
Tri Djoko Pariworo
Keyword(s):  
Digital Age ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Religious Understanding

Contemporary Islamic studies show a lot of the development of the method of da’wah in the digital age society, the more varied and the forms. The method of da’wah in the style of conventional lectures is no longer the only method used by religious teachers. Technological advances through applications as religious products can be the medium used in preaching one of them, namely Ustadz Yusuf Mansur through the Paytren application. This study argues that the commercialization of religion with the method of buying and selling spiritual products is a form of representation of the commodification of religion which results in the transformation of forms of religious practice in digital era society which is reflected in the Paytren paid user application community initiated by Ustadz Yusuf Mansur. This causes religious understanding as well as religious practices to take place through the consumption of commercial religious products. This research was conducted using a qualitative approach by conducting observations and interviews with users of the “Paytren” epayment application initiated by Ustadz Yusuf Mansur.   Kajian Islam kontemporer banyak menunjukkan perkembangan metode dakwah pada masyarakat era digital semakin variatif ragam dan bentuknya. Metode dakwah dengan gaya ceramah konvensional tidak lagi menjadi satusatunya metode yang dilakukan oleh kalangan ustadz. Kemajuan teknologi melalui aplikasi sebagai produk keagamaan bisa menjadi medium yang digunakan dalam berdakwah salah satunya yaitu ustadz Yusuf Mansur melalui aplikasi Paytren. Penelitian ini berargumen bahwa komersialisasi agama dengan metode jual beli produk-produk spiritual merupakan wujud representasi dari komodifikasi agama yang menghasilkan transformasi bentuk praktek keagamaan di masyarakat era digital yang tercermin dalam komunitas pengguna aplikasi berbayar Paytren yang digagas oleh Ustadz Yusuf Mansur Hal ini menyebabkan pemahaman agama sekaligus praktek agama berlangsung melalui konsumsi produk keagamaan yang komersial. Penelitian ini dilakukan dengan menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dengan cara melakukan kajian literature, observasi dan wawancara terhadap para pengguna aplikasi e-payment “Paytren” yang digagas oleh ustadz Yusuf Mansur.

Habit, Practice, Grace

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clare Carlisle
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Philosophy Of Religion ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Lived Religion ◽  
Traditional Philosophy ◽  
Propositional Form

Traditional philosophy of religion is shaped by its focus on the cognitive aspects of religious life—beliefs and doctrines—which can easily be articulated in propositional form. But “lived religion” encompasses more than belief, and if philosophers of religion are to do justice to our subject-matter, we need to learn to think philosophically about practice in general, and about religious practices in particular. This chapter considers some of the methodological questions and challenges that come with this task, and looks at two recent attempts to develop a philosophy of religious practice. It then outlines a concept of practice which tries to take account of two features of religious practice: how practice uses repetition to generate change, or even transformation; and how practice gives form to desire.

The Rigveda

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Jamison ◽  
Joel Brereton
Keyword(s):  
World Literature ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Sanskrit Text ◽  
World Religion ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The World ◽  
Small Band ◽  
Second Millennium Bce ◽  
And Function

The Ṛgveda is a monumental text in both world religion and world literature; yet it is comparatively little known outside a small band of specialists. The oldest Sanskrit text, composed in the latter half of the second millennium BCE, it stands as the foundational text of what will later be called Hinduism. The text consists of over a thousand hymns dedicated to various divinities, composed in sophisticated and often enigmatic poetry. Its range is large—encompassing profound meditations on cosmic enigmas, exuberant tributes to the wonders of the world, ardent praise of the gods and their works, moving and sometimes painful expressions of personal devotion, and penetrating reflections on the ability of mortals to approach and affect the divine and cosmic realms through sacrifice and praise. This guide introduces the text to a wider audience. It provides an overview of the text, its structure, and the process of its composition and collection; treats its purpose and how this purpose is reflected in the contents and structure of the text; gives a sense of the text by quoting verses and complete hymns; situates it in the religious practices of its time; and considers its use and reception in later periods, which saw profound changes in religious practices and beliefs. It will also introduce the literary qualities of the text and the poets’ belief in the role of their poetry in making sense of, and indeed creating, cosmic order and function by pressing the boundaries of language itself.

Living Religion

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
James W. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Religious Life ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Religious Thought ◽  
Theory To Practice ◽  
Religious Person ◽  
The World ◽  
Natural Home ◽  
Opening Up

The modern tendency to separate theory and practice, reflection and contemplation, has done inestimable mischief to the life of religion in the modern world. Religion’s claims about God or the world or the nature and destiny of the human spirit have been ripped from their context in religious practice and treated as discrete doctrinal abstractions to be justified or refuted in isolation from the living religious life that is their natural home. Many of the dilemmas faced by those who think seriously about religion today arise from or are intensified by this separation of theory and practice. Trends in contemporary psychology, especially an emphasis on embodiment and relationality, can help the thoughtful religious person of any tradition by returning theory to practice and thereby opening up new avenues of religious knowing and new ways of justifying the commitment to a religiously lived life. This text moves between psychology (especially neuropsychology) and various forms of religious thought in order to demonstrate the validity of living the religiously informed life. This book argues that it is meaningful and reasonable to speak of a “spiritual sense” by discussing ways we can “sense” or “perceive” the reality of God and what that might mean for the religiously concerned person and how it might be understood psychologically and neurologically.

scholarly journals Metode dan Pendekatan dalam Kajian Islam

FONDATIA ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-91
Author(s):  
Suparlan Suparlan
Keyword(s):  
Religious Studies ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
The World ◽  
Science Approach ◽  
Islamic Religion

Islamic studies is one of the studies that has received attention among scientists. If explored in depth, it appears that Islamic studies began to be widely studied by those interested in religious studies and other studies. Thus, Islamic studies deserve to be used as one of the favorite branches of science. That is, the study of Islam has gained a place in the world of science. Approach is a perspective or paradigm used by a reviewer in analyzing an object of Islamic religion by using certain sciences or theories. Certain sciences or theories are basically used as a tool or analysis tool for problems related to religion so that the object and the environment of study are clearly visible.

scholarly journals Ukrainian Religious Studies in the Context of World Religion Science

2006 ◽  
pp. 69-92
Author(s):  
Liudmyla O. Fylypovych
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Community ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
Western Science ◽  
World Religion ◽  
The World ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
The One ◽  
Scientific Atheism

Ukrainian religious studies has recently entered the world scientific community. Acquaintance with Western science, which has proven to be heterogeneous, often based on different methodological approaches and methodological means, has coincided with difficult internal transformations that have undergone all humanitarian knowledge in Ukraine after worldviews and political changes in society. In pursuit of its identity, domestic religious studies went, on the one hand, by contrasting itself with theology, and on the other, by distinguishing itself from scientific atheism. At first, the emergence of religious studies from the bosom of ideologized social science was more relevant. In the form of a critical study of religion, Soviet-era religious studies were included in scientific atheism. Therefore, religious studies came not as knowledge of religion, but as its critique.

scholarly journals The CeRIF is two years old

2001 ◽  
pp. 128-130
Author(s):  
Editorial board Of the Journal
Keyword(s):  
Web Site ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Data Bank ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
The State ◽  
Freedom Of Religion ◽  
Electronic Data ◽  
The World

March 1 this year marks the 2nd anniversary of the establishment of the Center for Religious Information and Freedom in Ukraine. The Ukrainian Association of Religious Studies, a mother organization for the Center, identified the main areas of its activities, including collecting and analyzing information about freedom of religion in Ukraine and other countries; creation of an electronic data bank with the opening of its web site in Ukrainian, Russian and English; preparation and publication of informational and analytical (including periodical) materials, publications on the state of religion, religiosity and freedom of religion in the world; Providing various consultations on issues of religious life of a person and society

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