PERSATUAN ISLAM TIONGHOA INDONESIA (PITI) BANYUMAS (STUDI TENTANG EKSISTENSI DAN AKULTURASI BUDAYA)

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Agus Sriyanto
Keyword(s):  
Religious Conversion ◽  
Chinese People ◽  
Conversion To Islam ◽  
Similar Experience ◽  
Religious Understanding

The religious conversion among Chinese people, i.e. they converted to Muslims, has brought sociological problems to them. After their conversion to islam, they are alienated and not accepted in their previous community. For that reason, many Chinese muallaf try to find new friends of the similar experience as muallaf. PITI (the Association of Tionghoa Muslims) was established to give advocation and protection to such people. The role of Banyumas Regency PITI are to give a religious understanding and give capital for them in running their business. This is intended to make them able to get into a new society after they are ignored by their previous community. The contact between Chinese and Islamic traditions in such a case has caused an acculturation in the society.

scholarly journals Persepsi Mualaf Terhadap Pengisian Pengislaman dan Program Pembangunan Mualaf: Kajian di Negeri Sembilan

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-148
Author(s):  
Azman Ab. Rahman ◽  
Irwan Mohd Subri ◽  
Mahazan Abdul Mutalib @ Taib ◽  
Wan Mohd Fazrul Azdi Wan Razali ◽  
Nuradli Ridzwan Shah Mohd Dali ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Religious Conversion ◽  
Support Program ◽  
Effective Management ◽  
Conversion To Islam ◽  
Support Programmes ◽  
Muslim Communities

Islam has gained a place in the hearts of non-Muslim communities. As a proof, statistics released by the Syarie Lawyers Association of Malaysia recorded an increase in the number of converts up to 76,663 people all over Malaysia in 2000 until 2009. There are various factors that motivated these people to Islam. For example, some are impressed with the presentation by the preacher that approached Islam to this group. However, the role of management and replenishment program after conversion of an individual to Islam as an attraction to this group can not be set aside. Thus, this article is to identify the mualaf perception towards development programmes provided specifically convert in Negeri Sembilan.  Identification of some other aspects that need to be addressed  including from the angle of the Islamization process, charging the conversion and conversion support programmes has also became the focus of a discussion on convert in this article. The article found that the existing issue to convert almost meet all aspects of the conversion needs, but there are still several lacunas requiring the improvements. The article suggests a number of improvements to enhance the existing management mainly related modules or courses provided and also the duration of the course. Further study should be undertaken to identify constraints facing the mualaf management from time to time in order to enhance the effective management of mualaf from phase prior to, during and after conversion to Islam. Keywords: Mualaf Perception, Islamic Religious Conversion, Filling of Conversion, Convert Support Program, Negeri Sembilan. Abstrak Islam semakin mendapat tempat di hati masyarakat bukan Islam. Buktinya, statistik yang dikeluarkan oleh Persatuan Peguam Syarie Malaysia merekodkan peningkatan jumlah mualaf sehingga 76,663 orang di seluruh Malaysia bagi tahun 2000 sehingga tahun 2009. Terdapat pelbagai faktor yang mendorong golongan ini mendekati Islam. Misalnya, ada yang terkesan dengan penyampaian dakwah yang berhikmah oleh para daie yang mendekati golongan ini. Namun begitu, peranan pengurusan dan pengisian program selepas pengislaman seseorang individu sebagai daya tarikan kepada golongan ini tidak dapat diketepikan. Justeru, artikel ini adalah untuk mengenal pasti persepsi mualaf terhadap pengisian dan program pembangunan mualaf yang disediakan khususnya di Negeri Sembilan. Pengenalpastian beberapa aspek lain yang perlu diberi perhatian termasuklah dari sudut proses pengislaman, pengisian pengislaman dan program sokongan mualaf turut menjadi fokus perbincangan dalam artikel ini. Artikel mendapati bahawa pengisian sedia ada kepada mualaf hampir memenuhi kesemua aspek keperluan mualaf, namun masih terdapat beberapa lakuna yang memerlukan kepada penambahbaikan. Artikel mencadangkan beberapa penambahbaikan untuk memantapkan lagi pengurusan sedia ada terutamanya berkaitan modul atau kursus yang disediakan dan juga jangka masa kursus. Kajian lanjutan perlu dijalankan bagi mengenal pasti kekangan pengurusan mualaf yang dihadapi dari semasa ke semasa supaya dapat memantapkan lagi keberkesanan pengurusan mualaf mulai dari fasa sebelum, semasa dan selepas memeluk agama Islam. Kata kunci: Persepsi Mualaf, Pemelukan Agama Islam, Pengisian Pengislaman, Program Sokongan Mualaf, Negeri Sembilan.

scholarly journals Trade and Religious Conversion in the Malay World: Study on Islamization in the Inderapura Kingdom in the 17 th - 18 th Centuries AD

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-57
Author(s):  
Sudarman Sudarman ◽  
Awliya Rahmi ◽  
Urwatul Wusqo ◽  
Safrudin Halimy ◽  
Rahmawati Rahmawati
Keyword(s):  
Religious Conversion ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Religious Study ◽  
Historical Reconstruction ◽  
The West ◽  
Social Approach ◽  
Left Hand ◽  
Conversion To Islam ◽  
The Indian Ocean

This study was derived from a paradegm developed by historians that the process of conversion to Islam in the Malay world was spread dominantly by the Sufis. As a result, historical reconstruction in this region has always been linked to the teachings, rituals and religious behavior of the Sufi. Based on available sources (manuscripts and archives), the role of traders was very significant in conversion to Islam in the Malay world. Through trade and religion, the countries in the Indian Ocean were interconnected. The religious conversion among traders grew faster as in the 17-18th century AD traders from various regions came to the West Coast of Sumatra to get spices. Most of these traders have embraced Islam. The Muslim traders carried the spirit of the Koran in their right hands and the commodities in the left hand. This spirit of spreading Islam was the driving force of the merchants to spread Islam in every place they visited. This research has implications for the community’s perspective on Islam in the Malay world because Islam that was brought by traders was progressive and flexible about the local culture. This study is a historical socio-religious study that is examined through three ap- proaches, namely historical approach, social approach, and religious approach. This study found that the religious conversion in the Malay world was succeeded mostly by the merchants. To facilitate the conversion, they married local women and negotiated with the authorized Sultan.

Religious Conversion and Kinship Cohesion

10.1558/32187 ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-45
Author(s):  
Audrey Allas
Keyword(s):  
Religious Identity ◽  
Religious Conversion ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Marriage Contracts ◽  
Conversion To Islam ◽  
Kinship Relations ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
Muslim Communities ◽  
Over Time

This paper seeks to reveal the perceived significance of religious conversion in order to maintain social cohesion within British Pakistani Muslim kinship structures. The alternative to conversion is the prospect of re-structuring of kinship relations and social mores amongst British Pakistani Muslim communities, if indeed more individuals marry outside of Islam over time. Utilising ethnographic data, the author indicates that religious identity is meaningful for the cohesion of Pakistani Muslim kinship structures in Britain, not only for ideological reasons, but also for economic purposes. This paper begins its focus from an anthropological discussion of the role of kinship alliances. It then explores the various manifestations of religious conversion to Islam within the framework of intermarriage and kinship relations, examining contexts of gender responsibility and “spirituality.” Data collection concerning this endeavour was carried out qualitatively over the course of a year within a larger ethnographic study of British Pakistani Muslim marriages, and with a variety of respondents from diverse contexts and situations in life, but all of whom identify with British Pakistani Muslim belonging and with the general understanding of being in an mixed relationship, inclusive of British legal civil unions, nikah (legal sharia marriage contracts), and co-habiting relationships.

Rebels, Believers, Survivors

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noel Malcolm
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Religious Conversion ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Napoleonic Wars ◽  
Conversion To Islam ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of ◽  
External Powers ◽  
First Time ◽  
Modern Myth

This book of essays covers a wide range of topics in the history of Albania and Kosovo. Many of the essays illuminate connections between the Albanian lands and external powers and interests, whether political, military, diplomatic or religious. Such topics include the Habsburg invasion of Kosovo in 1689, the manoeuvrings of Britain and France towards the Albanian lands during the Napoleonic Wars, the British interest in those lands in the late nineteenth century, and the Balkan War of 1912. On the religious side, essays examine ‘crypto-Christianity’ in Kosovo during the Ottoman period, the stories of conversion to Islam revealed by Inquisition records, the first theological treatise written in Albanian (1685), and the work of the ‘Apostolic Delegate’ who reformed the Catholic Church in early twentieth-century Albania. Some essays bring to life ordinary individuals hitherto unknown to history: women hauled before the Inquisition, for example, or the author of the first Albanian autobiography. The longest essay, on Ali Pasha, tells for the first time the full story of the role he played in the international politics of the Napoleonic Wars. Some of these studies have been printed before (several in hard-to-find publications, and one only in Albanian), but the greater part of this book appears here for the first time. This is not only a contribution to Albanian and Balkan history it also engages with many broader issues, including religious conversion, methods of enslavement within the Ottoman Empire, and the nature of modern myth-making about national identity.

scholarly journals The power of Bollywood: A study on opportunities, challenges, and audiences’ perceptions of Indian cinema in China

2021 ◽  
pp. 205943642110226
Author(s):  
Yanyan Hong
Keyword(s):  
Film Industry ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Chinese People ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Chinese Market ◽  
Star Power ◽  
Indian Cinema ◽  
Cultural Connections

India has long been known for its prestigious Mumbai-based film industry, namely Bollywood, and remains by far the largest producer of films in the world. With the growing global reach of Indian cinema, this study looks at an intriguing Indian-film fever over the last decade in the newly discovered market of China. Through examining key factors that make Indian films appealing to Chinese and exploring the opportunities and challenges of Indian cinema in China, this article draws upon insights gained from the narratives of local audiences. Data were collected from semi-structured interviews with 32 Indian-film audiences residing across 14 different cities in mainland China. Thematic analysis identified the following five appealing factors, which explain why the Chinese enjoy Indian films: content-driven story, social values, star power, audience reviews and cultural connections. While a comprehensive list of opportunities was derived showing the potential future of Bollywood in China, results found that China’s unique institutional context and an ongoing India–China geopolitical tensions also present challenges, which in turn add to the overall complexity of films’ success in the Chinese market. This article argues the powerful role of Bollywood in bridging cultures and improving India–China ties, as Indian films have made Chinese people more aware of India in a favourable way.

Trauma, Substance Dependence and Religious Coping: A Narrative Spiritual Appraisal in Faith-Based Recovery Programs

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-135
Author(s):  
Srdjan Sremac
Keyword(s):  
Substance Dependence ◽  
Religious Conversion ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Spiritual Transformation ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Helping Professions ◽  
Identity Confusion ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Spiritual Appraisal

Abstract The purpose of this article is to understand how people with substance dependence problems employ testimonies of spiritual transformation to develop, cope and sustain a sense of personal identity and create meaning from conflicting (traumatic) life experiences. The quest to undo the struggling with substance dependence is seen as a spiritual attempt to reconfigure the person’s ‘spoiled identity’. Drawing on 31 autobiographies of people who recovered from substance dependence problems I analyzed their conversion testimonies in two European contexts (Serbia and the Netherlands, including a sample of immigrants). It draws on the observation that substance dependence often (though certainly not always) develops in response to life crises or trauma and identity confusion, while spiritual transformation, including religious conversion, can foster recovery. The study focuses specifically of the role of testimony in reconstructing a viable narrative of the self, accounting for trauma, substance dependence experience, and conversion and embedding in different social, cultural, and spiritual contexts. Finally, suggestions for the helping professions and care providers of substance dependence service will be offered.

“Earth has clear call of daily bells”: Nature’s Apocalyptic Liturgy in Christina Rossetti’s Verses

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 172-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chene Heady Faulstick
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Religious Conversion ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Broad Definition ◽  
Emotional Interaction ◽  
Baroque Art ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Religious Understanding

AbstractThis essay reconsiders Charles Ryder’s religious conversion in Brideshead Revisited in terms of a primarily emotional conversion. When reading the novel as a pilgrimage to passion, readers can see in Charles a legitimate, convincing emotional conversion, which should—when emphasizing traditional Catholic ideals—ultimately also be understood as a religious conversion. Charles’s emotional interaction with Catholicism includes his intimate, formative relationship with the Catholic Flyte family, especially Sebastian, and aspects of his career as a Baroque artist, as Baroque art is often identified with Catholicism. It also includes Charles’s disenchantment with both the soullessness of war, which drains its participants of any emotional experience, and the modern world, which lacks connection to depth and tradition. Finally, the emotive power of his inadvertent pilgrimage to Brideshead also connects Charles to Catholicism as the house facilitates Charles’s memories of his religious experience at Lord Marchmain’s deathbed, his artistic conversion to Baroque art, and his passionate friendship with Sebastian. Such a broad definition of Catholicism calls for an expansive understanding of religion, but it is this kind of a religious understanding that Brideshead Revisited recommends.

scholarly journals PERAN PESANTREN DALAM MENCEGAH FUNDAMENTALISME-RADIKALISME AGAMA (STUDI KUALITATIF DI PESANTREN NURUL UMMAH DESA KEMBANG BELOR KECAMATAN PACET KABUPATEN MOJOKERTO)*

ASKETIK ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Puji Laksono
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Students ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Religious Fundamentalism ◽  
Know How ◽  
Social Construction Theory ◽  
The Social ◽  
Religious Radicalism ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Religious Understanding

Religious fundamentalism that leads to the action of religious radicalism becomes a common event that must be prevented. Religion that should be the source of love, peace, and salvation in human life is used as an instrument of abomination. This can be seen from the recent events of global terrorism acts today. This research has a theme about the role of Pesantren Nurul Ummah in preventing religious fundamentalism-radicalism which is a the form of acts of terrorism. The purpose of this research is to know how the role of Pesantren Nurul Ummah in preventing religious fundamentalism-radicalism in the form of acts of terrorism. This research was conducted on foreign students at Pesantren Nurul Ummah, Kembang Belor, Pacet, Mojokerto. The method used is qualitative The theory used is the Social Construction theory of Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann. Data were collected through direct observation and in-depth interviews. The validity of the data was done by using triangulation. The results of this study indicate that the root problem of religious fundamentalism that led to the action of religious radicalism, can be seen from the aspect of a shallow religious understanding. The teachings of Islam contained in the Qur’an and Hadith in their understanding are not adapted to the social context. The role of pesantren in preventing religious fundamentalism radicalism, namely by playing the three functions. Among other religious functions, by giving an understanding of the text of the Qur’an and Hadith in accordance with its context, which is called asbab al-nuzul or asbab al-wurud. Then the function of education, by inculcating social values, such as the value of nationalism and pluralism. And the last is the social function, namely to equip students with social activities related to society. Keywords: Pesantren, religious fundamentalism, Islam.

scholarly journals Politik Kebangsaan dalam Membendung Gerakan Radikalisme oleh Nahdlatul Ulama Kabupaten Pati (National Politics in Repressing the Radicalism Movement by Nahdlatul Ulama of Pati Regency)

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 60
Author(s):  
Nevy Rusmarina Dewi ◽  
Wahyu Khoiruzzaman ◽  
Muhammad Fatwa Fauzian ◽  
Abdul Ghofur
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Training ◽  
Research Method ◽  
National Politics ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Central Java ◽  
Nahdlatul Ulama ◽  
The Government ◽  
Religious Understanding

ABSTRACTThe radicalism movement is currently one of the centres of attention of the Indonesian government because several incidents have repeatedly occurred in Indonesia. The radicalism movement is a concept that wish changes in society using a narrow religious understanding base which usually leads to bomb terror acts. The Central Java region is one area that is often used as the basis of radicalism movements spreading across various regions. The government cooperates with several Islamic organizations, one of which is (Nahdlatul Ulama), to take part in preventing radicalism that can threaten the integrity of the nation and state. This article aims to reveal the role of Nahdlatul Ulama's national politics in repressing the radicalism movement in Indonesia, especially in the Pati Regency area. The research method applied is qualitative with a literature study approach and through interviews. The NU Branch Leader (PCNU) made several programs to repress radicalism in the Pati Regency area, among others, by solidifying students in the Nahdlatul Ulama Student Association (IPNU) by holding Basic Leadership Training (LDK) in collaboration with the National Military Forces (TNI) and academics. In addition, Ansor and Banser of Pati Regency were active in conducting discussions with the theme of counteracting radicalism. These activities by Nahdlatul Ulama are effective in repressing radicalism in the Pati Branch area.  Keywords: national politics; radicalism; PCNU Pati Kabupaten.ABSTRAKGerakan radikalisme pada saat ini menjadi salah satu pusat perhatian pemerintah Indonesia karena berulang kali aksi ini terjadi di Indonesia. Gerakan radikalisme merupakan paham yang menginginkan perubahan dalam masyarakat yang seringnya menggunakan dasar pemahaman agama yang sempit yang biasanya berujung pada aksi teror bom. Wilayah Jawa Tengah merupakan salah satu wilayah yang sering menjadi basis gerakan radikalisme yang tersebar di berbagai daerah. Pemerintah menggandeng beberapa ormas Islam salah satunya adalah Nahdlatul Ulama yang ikut andil dalam rangka pencegahan radikalisme yang dapat mengancam keutuhan bangsa dan negara.  Artikel ini bertujuan mengungkap peran politik kebangsaan Nahdlatul Ulama dalam membendung gerakan radikalisme di Indonesia khususnya di wilayah Kabupaten Pati. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah kualitatif dengan pendekatan studi literatur serta melalui wawancara. PCNU membuat beberapa program yang dilaksanakan dalam rangka membendung radikalisme di wilayah Kabupaten Pati antara lain dengan mensolidkan para pelajar dalam Ikatan Pelajar Nahdlatul Ulama (IPNU) dengan mengadakan Latihan Dasar Kepemimpinan (LDK) yang bekerjasama dengan TNI maupun akademisi.  Selain itu Ansor dan Banser Kabupaten Pati aktif untuk melakukan diskusi dengan tema menangkal radikalisme. Kegiatan-kegiatan tersebut efektif dalam rangka membendung radikalisme oleh Nahdlatul Ulama di wilayah Cabang Pati.Kata kunci: politik kebangsaan; radikalisme; PCNU Kabupaten Pati.

On Women, Power, and Politics During the Last Phase of the Ilkhanate

Arabica ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 59 (6) ◽  
pp. 709-723 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hend Gilli-Elewy
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Study ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
The Other ◽  
Political Fragmentation ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Conversion To Islam ◽  
Cultural Exchanges ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
The One

Abstract As a social and cultural study, this article is an attempt to contribute to the discussion around the end of the Ilkhanate by looking at the question of assimilation of Muslim and Mongol traditions during Abū Saʿīd’s rule (reg. 716-736/1316-1335). By studying this period through the main focus of women’s roles, it hopes to draw connections between the traditional Turco-Mongol status of elite women, the process of Islamization of the Ilkhanate, and the Ilkhanate’s inability to ensure continuity of government after the death of Abū Saʿīd. It will highlight the role of women of the ruling house during this period that on the one hand was seen as a Golden Age of the Ilkhanate, but on the other hand was marked by political fragmentation, confusing alliances, marriages, and numerous rebellions which ultimately led to its dissolution. The tension between choosing to remain loyal to traditional Turco-Mongol values and the processes of cultural exchanges, integration, and especially conversion to Islam becomes particularly interesting when studying the role of women in the late Ilkhanid court.

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