scholarly journals POLITICAL PROPAGANDA, MASS MOBILIZATION, AND NARRATIVE OF HABIB RIZIEQ SHIHAB IN THE AKBAR 212 REUNION

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-294
Author(s):  
Ilham Fariq Maulana
Keyword(s):  
Interpretive Research ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Mass Mobilization ◽  
Political Propaganda ◽  
Pentadic Analysis ◽  
Political Emotions

This study conducted a study of the rhetorical text of Habib Rizieq Shihab's (HRS) speech at the 212 Grand Reunion in 2019. This research was trying to map the elements of rhetorical motive construction through Burke's Pentadic analysis. However, this research also found gaps in political propaganda by figures and religious groups' leaders with Propaganda Theory. This interpretive research includes five contents of the HRS speech. This study's main conclusion shows that the rhetorical motive is aimed at agent and agency elements that show gaps in political propaganda in mass mobilization nationally and sympathy for HRS religious leaders and acceptance of ideas and ideas in agency elements apolitical political emotions.

scholarly journals Nippon Kaigi: Gerakan Kebangkitan Nasionalisme Jepun

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Asmadi Hassan ◽  
Abdul Rasyid Mokhtar
Keyword(s):  
Japanese Society ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Pressure Group ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Political Propaganda ◽  
Local Assembly

Nippon Kaigi is an influential right-wing pressure group in Japan. Its membership is not only among the ordinary people but also influential politicians, professionals, businessmen, religious groups, academics and chief justices. Their goal is to build a nation whose people are proud to be citizens (nationalism). The article discusses the movement by Nippon Kaigi to nurture nationalism in Japan and how it achieved its goals. The article is divided into several parts, namely the introduction of Nippon Kaigi, the oddity of current Japanese society which led to the need for a spirit of nationalism and the movement in Japan. The study found that the activities of this organization are not through violence but by political propaganda activities. In order to disseminate its ideology among the citizens, it holds assemblies, collecting signatures and calls for local assembly approval across the country. In other words, Nippon Kaigi has employed a new approach to advance right-wing movements.

scholarly journals A review of the use of biological mesh products in modern UK surgical practice: a religious and cultural perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 102 (8) ◽  
pp. 566-570
Author(s):  
RM Koshy ◽  
EG Kane ◽  
C Grocock
Keyword(s):  
Surgical Planning ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Animal Products ◽  
Religious Perspective ◽  
Ovid Medline ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Uk

Introduction The UK is an increasingly multicultural society. This change coincides with an increasing use of animal products in medicine and surgery and a change in the UK law of consent. The refusal of Jehovah’s Witnesses to accept blood products is well known, but the use of animal products in surgery is a neglected topic. As society becomes more diverse and medicine becomes ever more advanced, there is increasing potential for a mismatch between what is medically possible and what is acceptable from a religious perspective. Methods Surgical products were identified by searching the literature and contacting manufacturing companies. Literature was identified by using PubMed and OVID (MEDLINE). Religious views were established by contacting national bodies for each group. Findings The views of common UK religious groups and the constituent parts of biological meshes are summarised in tables intended to be used as a reference during clinical practice. On an elective basis, the Islamic, Hindu. Sikh and Jain leaders contacted had strong views on avoiding animal derived products. The Christian and Jewish leaders contacted did not. All religious leaders contacted accepted the use of mesh derived from human tissue. All products, including those of porcine and bovine origin, were acceptable to all leaders contacted if the procedure was performed to save life. The highlighting of this issue should prompt earlier consideration and discussion in the surgical planning and the consenting process with all final decisions taken by both the surgeon and the individual patient.

From “Jungles of Terror” to “God Will Begin a Healing in This City”: Billy Graham and Evangelicals on Cities and Suburbs

2020 ◽  
pp. 009614422094004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian J. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Social Issues ◽  
White Flight ◽  
White Americans ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Spiritual Renewal ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Billy Graham ◽  
Structural Responses ◽  
Limited Power ◽  
Conservative Protestants

Evangelist Billy Graham spoke to millions in the postwar era when suburban populations swelled and many white Americans, including conservative Protestants, left cities for suburbs. Adding to research on white flight and the suburbanization of religious groups, this study of Graham’s consistent approach to cities and suburbs over six decades demonstrates how conservative Protestants’ individualistic approach to social and spiritual ills contributed to their negative view of cities and justified settling in suburban locations. Graham discussed numerous urban problems and suggested solutions should begin with individual spiritual renewal. Graham proclaimed heaven as the ultimate city and did not encourage listeners to stay in cities or challenge white flight. As a respected pastor and leader, Graham’s messages highlight how evangelicals could consider cities in need of spiritual renewal but not require structural responses or living in cities as well as the limited power evangelical religious leaders have regarding contentious social issues.

scholarly journals PENDIDIKAN PLURALISME MELALUI KURIKULUM PENDIDIKAN AGAMA ISLAM BERBASIS KEMAJEMUKAN

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 307
Author(s):  
Mutakallim .
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Philosophical Perspective ◽  
The Past ◽  
Perennial Philosophy ◽  
The People ◽  
Lasting Peace ◽  
The Face ◽  
Exciting Effect

Experts and religious leaders have tried everything in order to create an intimate and harmonious relationship between religious people in this famous, very pluralistic country of Indonesia. Through writings both books, magazines, journals and even through seminars and pulpits of sermons always suggest the importance of cooperation and dialogue between religious groups. Although it seems, their suggestions have not had such an exciting effect. To gain success for the realization of the noble goal of lasting peace and brotherhood among people who in reality have different religions and faiths, it is necessary to have the courage to invite them to make changes in the field of education, especially through a diversity-based curriculum. Because, through a curriculum like this, it is possible to be able to dismantle the theology of each religion which has tended to be displayed exclusively and dogmatically. A theology which usually only claims that only religion can build worldly welfare and usher in humans in God's heaven. The doors and rooms of heaven are only one that cannot be opened and entered except with the religion that he embraces. Even though such aology, we must admit, is something that is very worrying and can disturb the harmony of the people of religions in the present pluralistic era. An era in which all societies with all their elements are required to be interdependent and collect their fate together in order to create lasting peace. Here lies the challenge for religion (including Islam) to re-define itself in the midst of other religions. Or by borrowing the language John Lyden, an expert on religions, is "what should I think about other religions than one’s own? What should a Muslim think about non-Muslims. Is it still as an enemy or as a friend. Of course there is still the presumption of one religion with another as an enemy. It must be thrown away. Isn't in fact all of us as brothers and friends? Islam through the Qur'an and its Hadith teaches tolerant attitudes. In addition, the importance of reforming the PAI curriculum by presenting the face of tolerant Islam can be explained from the point of view of perennial philosophy, essentialism and progressiveness. In the view of perennialism the curriculum is "construct" which is built to transfer what has happened in the past to the next generation to be preserved, continued or developed. While in the philosophical perspective of progressivism, the position of the curriculum is to build a future life in which the past, present, and various plans for the development and development of the nation are used as the basis for developing future life. From this it is possible to teach the principles of humanist, democratic and equitable Islamic teachings to students. A principle of Islamic teachings that is very relevant to enter the future of the world which is characterized by the existence of cultural and religious diversity.

scholarly journals Ambiguitas Agama sebagai Peluang dalam Menciptakan Perdamaian Agama

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ihsan Ali Fauzi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Conflict Management ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
Peace Studies ◽  
Malcolm X ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Dalai Lama ◽  
Religious Issues ◽  
Martin Luther King

Popular news on religious issues tends to simplify the values of religion in socio-political expressions. They attend to blow acts of violence up in the name of religion. In this context, media remark some religious groups by using horrible terms and idioms, such as zealots, extremists, militants, etc. Moreover, they swipe it with taking some appalling photos and pictures. Religious leaders perceive this phenomenon as kind of misunderstanding paradigm in approaching and viewing religion, having known that conflict and violence are not only socio-political expression of religion. There are many untold beautiful expressions of religion, like Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Mother Theresa, Malcolm X, and Dalai Lama. This article attempts to explore how religion can deeply be embodied with peace building, conflict management, and peace studies. It suggests that in order to be a tool of peace building, religion should not be used for proselytizing other people but rather should be put in academic and rational way to spread voices of peace. In addition to this, peace message of religion should also be expressed especially in social media as a counteraction against violent message of religious extremists. And the last thing is that peace building can only be achieved when peace work can bridge religious and secular communities.

Part III, 11 Religious Group Autonomy

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahdar Rex ◽  
Leigh Ian
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Religious Group ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
The Third ◽  
Matters Of Concern ◽  
The Right

This chapter examines religious group autonomy, which comprises the right of religious communities to determine and administer their own internal religious affairs without interference from the state. It begins with a brief survey of the law's recognition of religious group autonomy. It contrasts a liberal understanding of religious autonomy with that of the religious communities themselves. It then focuses upon three illustrative matters of concern in this area. One is the right of religious groups to select their own religious leaders and ministers. The second is the right of groups to assemble for worship in buildings and locations of their choosing. The third concern is the right of religious communities to determine for themselves who they will marry within the rites of their communities.

Gender, Marriage, and Sexual Purity in American Religious History

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seth Dowland
Keyword(s):  
American History ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
American Religious History ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Cultural Attitudes ◽  
American Christianity ◽  
Over Time

Throughout American history, religious people and groups have developed, sustained, or challenged cultural norms around gender, marriage, and sexual purity. Beginning with the earliest English Protestant settlers in the 17th century, American Christians have devoted consistent attention to the proper roles of men and women, and to the proper functioning of families. Throughout American history, religious leaders have assigned men as spiritual leaders of their families. Assessments of women’s piety—and its importance in maintaining social order—have grown more positive over time. Prophetic radicals and political activists have frequently challenged American Christianity by attacking its traditionalism on issues related to gender and sexuality. The ideal of a “traditional family” has, however, proven quite robust. Even as cultural attitudes around gender and sexuality have shifted dramatically in recent years, the presumption that typical American families are heterosexual, middle-class, and Christian has persisted. This presumption developed over time and has remained dominant owing in part to the contributions of American religious groups.

Symposium Introduction: The Politics of Religious Alliances

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-233
Author(s):  
Ursula Hackett ◽  
David E. Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Policy Development ◽  
Religion And Politics ◽  
The United States ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Credit Expansion ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Party Activists ◽  
The Impact

This symposium examines the politics of religious alliances. While the literature on religion and politics generally focuses on differences across individuals, congregations, denominations, or traditions, these articles instead ask how, when, and why religious groups do — and do not — form alliances with other organizations, both religious and secular. Specifically, this collection of original research examines the formation of multi-denominational coalitions among party activists, litigants, and religious leaders. These varied articles arose from a workshop at Oxford University in March 2015, an event hosted and funded by the Rothermere American Institute. The collection explores the impact of religious coalitional activity upon political attitudes, decision-making, and public policy development. It is wide-ranging, extending our understanding of religious coalitional activity beyond the United States and dealing with topics of vital current significance, including the swiftly changing landscape of school voucher and tax credit expansion, same-sex marriage, healthcare, and abortion advocacy.

Running a Religious Philanthropic Enterprise

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 256-272
Author(s):  
Wei-Hsu Lu
Keyword(s):  
Resource Use ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
State Agencies ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Public Interests ◽  
Religious Policy ◽  
Philanthropic Organizations ◽  
High Level ◽  
Religious Philanthropy

Abstract Religious philanthropy is now in a new age. In 2012, the State Bureau of Religious Affairs and other 5 state agencies published a document to encourage and regulate religious philanthropic activities. It means that the central government’s new religious policy is to cultivate religious philanthropy. However, many religious groups, since their engagement in philanthropy, have encountered a series of problems, such as the immaturity of theory, the inefficiency of resource use and search, the shortage of organizations and staff with experience, and the unclear division between serving and preaching. Even if the religious environment in Taiwan is different from that in Mainland, the success of the waste sorting and recycling program of Tzu Chi, the largest Humanistic Buddhist group in Taiwan, still brings some valuable experience to religious groups doing philanthropy in Mainland. First, Tzu Chi’s leader, Cheng Yen, was good at linking Buddha’s teachings with recognized environmental issues. Her style of speech might be learned by other religious leaders who intend to generate philanthropic discourses. Second, Tzu Chi’s waste sorting and recycling program always made use of contingent opportunities and resources outside it to develop itself. This way of expansion should be noted by religious groups that want to establish philanthropic organizations. Third, the division of labor among Tzu Chi’s leader, volunteers, and professionals and their high level of autonomy could be taken by other religious philanthropic organizations. Finally, Tzu Chi’s religious philanthropic practices prioritize public interests and set an example for the separation between serving and preaching.

Wal-Mart: The Store Wars

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Daniel Diermeier
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Hispanic Americans ◽  
City Council ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Barriers To Entry ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Entry Strategies ◽  
The City

In early 2004, residents of Inglewood, California, a working-class community just outside Los Angeles composed primarily of African- and Hispanic-Americans, were preparing to vote on a referendum that would change the city charter to allow Wal-Mart to build a supercenter on a huge, undeveloped lot in the city. Walmart had put forward the measure after the city council refused to change the zoning of a sixty-acre plot on which it held an option to build. Numerous community and religious groups opposed Wal-Mart's entry and campaigned against the referendum. Walmart promised low-priced merchandise and jobs, but these groups were skeptical about the kinds of jobs and compensation that would be offered, the healthcare that would be provided to employees, and the broader impact Walmart would have on the community. Inglewood was a pro-union community, so there was also opposition based on Walmart's anti-union position. On April 6 Inglewood residents voted to reject the referendum by a margin of 60.6 percent to 39.9 percent. Though smaller, less organized, and with fewer resources than Walmart, this coalition of community and religious leaders had defeated the global retailing behemoth.After students have analyzed the case they will be able to (a) appreciate the importance of nonmarket factors to execute growth and market entry strategies, (b) understand how the decisions of political institutions depend on the issue context and the alignments of coalitions of interest, (c) formulate and assess strategies to overcome nonmarket barriers to entry.

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