scholarly journals POLA KEBERAGAMAAN MASYARAKAT MARGINAL

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-81
Author(s):  
Ahmad Muttaqin
Keyword(s):  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Test Site ◽  
Theory Of Action ◽  
Correctional Institution ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
Distinctive Character ◽  
Sociological Approach ◽  
Religious Rituals ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
Major Consideration

Abstract: This study examines the issue of the sociology of religion at the religious practices of local communities. Kampung Laut selected as a test site for two (2) major consideration. First, the practice of religion in the fom of ritual in Kampung Laut is different from the mainstream that is considered wrong and become targets for streamlining activities. Second, the typical characteristics of Kampung Laut people in the vortex of conflict govemment agencies on claims of ownership of natural resources. Correctional Institution (LP) as part of Kemenkumham, Cilacap regency govemment and PT. Perhutani conflict over land ownership arising from sedimentation along Segara Anak. Conflicts that exist tend to be maintained to a certain political interests. Even more, these institutions construct public issue by positioning Kampung Laut as threatening communities via label illegal loggers and destroyers of ecosystems. Bad image fomed through a process of marginalization is then formed the distinctive character of the community as a community of Kampung Laut resistant and latent. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative sociological approach. Through sociological analysis, practice different religious rituals that seem to have rationalization based on the theory of action Weber in the category of value-oriented rationality. Different actions with mainstream thought to have more benefits in the context of the struggle for existence of identity in the practice of marginalization carried out by institutions conflictual. Religiorn becomes the entry point of this issue given its massive, communal, and mobilized by the transcendental values. Keywords: Religion, Conflict, Ritual, Mainstream.

scholarly journals A sociological approach to the concept of God amongst Iranian youth

2011 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mina Safa ◽  
Habib Ahmadi
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Belief Systems ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Social Construct ◽  
God Concept ◽  
Concept Of God ◽  
Sociological Approach ◽  
Religious Rituals ◽  
History Of ◽  
Entire History

One of the most fundamental concepts in Sociology of Religion, the concept of God, was emphasised in this article. Although the God concept is not the same as the transcendental existence of God, it is this concept that is the most fundamental social construct in the entire history of world religions. The aim of this article was the conceptual reconstruction of God amongst the youth of Iran, who may be free from a theological approach. This article aimed to examine the God concept in the ‘epistemological’, ‘emotional’ and ‘social action’ domains. The Iranian society is in transition, faced with delusion about the traditional and modern belief systems, and multiplicity of interpretations and new presentation of One God Allah. A spectrum of these plural presentations of God embodies micro and macro social levels. Some of the most important of these concepts are: individual and personal concept of God, the God in family, in educational system, in religious rituals, and the dominant concept in the society.

scholarly journals POLA KEBERAGAMAAN MASYARAKAT MARGINAL

1970 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-156
Author(s):  
Ahmad Muttaqin
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Sociological Approach ◽  
Government Institutions ◽  
Religious Issues ◽  
The One ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

This is a research on sociology of religion, focusing on the issue of religious practices in a local community. Kampung Laut was chosen as the setting of this research for two reasons. First, the rituals of religion practices in the region are different from mainstream practices, which result in label and justification that their religiosity is not a part of or only a fragment of the mainstream religion and tend to be the target of correction. Second, this region raises conflicts among government institutions in relation to the rights of natural resources possession and utilization. The bad image built through this marginalization has formed Kampung Laut community as the one that is resistant and latent. This research used descriptive qualitative method with sociological approach. Rituals of religious practices that are different from the mainstream are explained on the basis of Weber’s theory of behavior categorized into value-oriented rationality. This kind of practices is considered to be more beneficial in the context of struggling for identity among the practices of marginalization experienced by Kampung Laut community. This condition gives a description to public that Kampung Laut community receives unfair treatments for their natural resources. Religious issues is made an entry for its massive, communal, and related to transcendental values.

Some trends in the sociology of religion in the USA

1966 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 237-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.O. Moberg
Keyword(s):  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Research Association ◽  
Grand Nombre ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
Research Journal ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Sociological Society ◽  
Six Dimensions ◽  
Seconde Guerre Mondiale

Des liens étroits unissent les Etats-Unis et l'Europe dans le domaine de l'étude de la sociologie de la religion. Ces deux continents appartiennent à la même culture occidentale et l'on y rencontre les mêmes grandes religions. La théologie judéo-chrétienne met fortement l'accent sur l'unité du genre humain. Européens et Américains ont beaucoup à s'apprendre mutuellement. Aux Etats-Unis, la sociologie de la religion s'est fort développée depuis la seconde guerre mondiale. Les recherches sociologiques dans le domaine de la religion ont été introduites dans un grand nombre d'universités, centres de formation relevant des grandes confessions religieuses etc. L'American Sociological Association a créé une section spéciale dans ce domaine et chaque année elle tient ses assises dans le cadre des congrès de l'association. La Religious Research Association, la Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, l'American Catholic Sociological Society et l'American Jewish Committee contribuent toutes à promouvoir l'essor de cette spécialité. Citons enfin pour mention les plus importantes publi cations périodiques qui ont vu le jour: Sociological Abstracts, Review of Religious Research, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion et Sociological Analysis. Les développements de cette discipline dans l'après guerre furent stimulé par l'éveil d'un intérêt très grand pour la religion comme phénomène général de culture. Des recherches firent connaitre l'énorme importance de la religion dans la vie moderne et suscitèrent de la part des responsables religieux des attentes des résultats de telles recherches. Les cinq 'dimensions-clés' de la religiosité proposées par Glock consti tuent de ce point de vue une contribution méthodologique très impor tante. La dimension 'ritualistique' de la religion correspond aux compor tements extérieurs et pratiques religieuses; la dimension 'idéologique' se réfère aux croyances; la dimension 'intellectuelle' ou 'cognitive' se rapporte à la connaissance, 'l'expériencielle' aux sentiments et la dimen sion 'conséquentielle' enfin consiste dans les effets des quatre premières. Toutefois, il est d'autres aspects de la religiosité personnelle qui échap pent à cette catégorisation, notamment quand il s'agit des religions chrétiennes. C'est donc une sixième dimension 'transcendentale' ou 'spirituelle' qui fait l'objet de la discussion dans cet article. Elle relève de l'essence même de la vie religieuse et se rapproche de ce que Sturzo appelait 'la vrai vie' dans sa sociologie du surnaturel. Une évidence de type 'verste hende', c'est-à-dire prenant sa source dans l'intuition, la théologie, des arguments de nature philosophique et l'expérience subjective vécue par l'homme, plutôt qu'un ensemble de faits de type empirique condui sent en effet à penser que cet aspect de la nature humaine est plutôt une réalité proprement ontologique et non un objet réifié. Il n'est pas impossible que l'on puisse un jour sonder la nature spirituelle de l'homme à l'aide de données purement empiriques. Entretemps, il faut faire preuve d'humilité scientifique et d'une grande prudence de juge ment. Tenir compte à la fois des six dimensions de la religiosité fera de nous de meilleurs sociologues de la religion.

scholarly journals Conceptualising the role of cities in the governance of religious diversity in Europe

2017 ◽  
Vol 66 (5) ◽  
pp. 810-827 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Martínez-Ariño
Keyword(s):  
Religious Diversity ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Medium Size ◽  
The Public ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
Informal Practices ◽  
Legal Frameworks

The sociological literature has devoted less attention to cities than to nation-states as contexts for the regulation of religion and religious diversity in Europe. Drawing on ideas from the literature on migration, urban studies, geography and the sociology of religion, as well as empirical material from fieldwork conducted in three medium-size cities in France, the author conceptualises the governance of religious diversity in cities as complex assemblages where (1) the political interests and claims of various unequally socially positioned actors over (2) a number of domains and objects of the public expression of religiosity are (3) subjected to a variety of municipal interventions, which are (4) shaped by the interplay of supranational legal frameworks, national legislation, policies, institutional arrangements and local contextual factors. The result of these regulation processes are particular (and often contested) normative definitions of ‘accepted’ or ‘legitimate’ public expressions of religiosity, subsequently enacted by a variety of local actors through both formal procedures and informal practices.

scholarly journals Theatre as Art: Philosophical and Sociological Analysis in the Space of Reality

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 576-584 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrei Atanov ◽  
Ekaterina Zimina
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
Philosophical Analysis ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
Sociological Approach ◽  
Demographic Group ◽  
Institutional Approach ◽  
The World ◽  
The Spectator

The article presents a deep socio-philosophical analysis of theatre. The essence of theatre is considered as entirely based on real experiences and on the principle of reality that not necessarily refers to personality and often, being in the world as a community of the ultimate order, only indicates the presence of individuals. The plots offered to the spectator by theatre and theatrical art are considered. The sociological approach in the article appears as a form of obtaining knowledge about actuality in the framework of reality and can indicate the context of what is happening: what people are interested in, why they have this interest and what form it turns into. The institutional approach is used for considering theatre. The characteristics of theatre as a social institution are analyzed. The article presents the findings of the focus group, whose aim was to identify young peoples views as a major socio-demographic group about the place of theatre in the modern space.

scholarly journals Revisiting methodological basis of religiousity research in sports

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-62
Author(s):  
E. E. Gres
Keyword(s):  
Religious Commitment ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Semantic Content ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Blind Spot ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Religious Rituals ◽  
Sacred Stories ◽  
Sports Activities

Sport is still a «blind spot» in religious studies; meanwhile, the phenomenon of modern sport, from the point of view of its sociocultural determination, value and semantic content, is of great interest to the sciences of religious rituals. At first glance, the empirical facts about sport are quite ordinary. For all participants and attentive observers, physical efforts and sport results are fed by carefully constructed worlds of sacred stories, symbols and personal rituals. The increasing number of athletes involved in sports activities claim the priority of spiritual growth in the process of training and competitions over physical metamorphoses. Champions talk frankly about their religious views and demonstrate confessional affiliation, building bridges between personal rituals and their victories or defeats, which makes it possible to think about including sports in the field of religious studies. The objective of the present research is to analyze the theoretical and methodological foundations of studying the phenomenon of athletes’ religious commitment, as well as adapting existing approaches to distinguishing types of religious and non-religious individuals, taking into account the specifics of this group. Based on the results of empirical studies of the last twenty years developed in Russian sociology of religion, the author reveals their potential for solving urgent problems. In this article, the author focuses on the methods of studying the religiosity of modern athletes. One of the problems is the construction of classification demonstrating athletes’ religiosity taking into account the specifics of their activities, as well as the possibilities of representing their beliefs through religious practices before / during / after competitions.

Sociology of the Sacred

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan Moebius
Keyword(s):  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Theory Of Action ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Collège De Sociologie

This article analyzes three key stages in the development of the sociology of the sacred: the Durkheim school, the Collège de Sociologie, and the work of Hans Joas. First, it shows that the Collège de Sociologie was deeply influenced by the Durkheimians’ studies on religion and the gift but interpreted them in a very specific way. Whereas the Collège and the Durkheim school agree on the importance of the sacred for social cohesion, they disagree on other important theoretical, methodological, and political issues. Second, it compares Hans Joas’s studies on sacralization processes to the Durkheimian sociology of religion and the sacred sociology of the Collège. It argues that Joas’s analyses, even though they are inspired by Durkheim, in particular go beyond the Durkheim school and the Collège in three respects: (a) they provide an account of the articulation of the experience of the sacred; (b) they ground sacralization processes in a theory of action; and (c) they contextualize sacralization processes in terms of a sociology of institutions and power.

Has globalization eroded firms’ responsibility for their employees? A sociological analysis of transnational firms’ corporate social responsibility policies concerning their employees in the Netherlands, 1980–2010

2012 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Sander Quak ◽  
Johan Heilbron ◽  
Romke van der Veen
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Economic Globalization ◽  
Labor Policy ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
Corporate Policies ◽  
Sociological Approach ◽  
Corporate Social

Since the 1970s many firms expanded their operations across national borders and were restructured to fit the changing economic conditions during these times of economic globalization. Using a sociological approach to transnational firms, in this article the authors research the consequences of these developments for the responsibility of two transnational firms towards their employees in the Netherlands. These firms experienced a shift in their dual embeddedness in national and transnational economic fields, with the latter gaining importance. In response, they adjusted their corporate policies and structure to fit the competitive conditions of these fields, causing a centralization of their corporate labor policy on the transnational level, the polarization of this policy and the instrumentalization of labor and labor policy. This also meant that their responsibility for their employees was restructured and reduced.

scholarly journals Analisis Wacana Pesan Komunikasi Dakwah Ali Syari’ati

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-220
Author(s):  
Dudi Rustandi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Micro Structure ◽  
Distinctive Character ◽  
Analysis Methodology ◽  
Discourse Model ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Economic

The purpose of this study is to explore the hidden message in the message of communication (da'wah) and the rhetoric conveyed by someone is a response from the social reality of the community that surrounds a Muballigh who shows his attitude and character. This gave birth to a distinctive character, different from other people's messages. It also refers to the social, political, economic, social and cultural context in which a person lives. This can be found from the preaching messages of Ali Shariati. Using the Teo A. Van Dijk model discourse analysis method, the researcher described the da'wah message based on the framework of the discourse elements; first, macro structure, Second; superstructure, third; micro structure. The use of the Discourse model is intended to interpret the latent intent of the message. The results of the study concluded that Ali Shari'ati's message of preaching emphasized a lot of aspects of aqeedah and morals, with the following characteristics; (1) The content of Shari'ati's message of preaching uses the historical sociological analysis methodology using reasoning or logic of comparison, (2) Tawhid becomes the basis of every content of Shari'ati's message, (3) The message is always progressive, this is characterized by new interpretations and meanings, (4) have a commitment to the culture and traditions of the local community, (5) Islam must be the basis of movement and side with the weak, (6) More emphasis on moral character.AbstrakTujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengeksplorasi pesan tersembunyi di dalam pesan komunikasi (dakwah) dan retorika yang disampaikan seseorang  merupakan respon dari realitas sosial masyarakat yang melingkupi seorang Muballigh yang menunjukan sikap dan karakternya. Hal tersebut melahirkan karakter pesan yang khas, berbeda dari pesan orang lain. Hal tersebut merujuk pula pada konteks sosial politik, ekonomi, sosial, dan budaya dimana seseorang hidup. Hal ini dapat ditemukan dari pesan-pesan dakwah Ali Syariati. Dengan menggunakan metode analisis wacana model Teo A. Van Dijk, peneliti menguraikan pesan dakwah berdasarkan kerangka elemen-elemen wacana; pertama, struktur makro, Kedua; superstruktur, ketiga ; struktur mikro. Penggunaan model Wacana dimaksudkan untuk menafsirkan maksud laten dari pesannya. Hasil penelitian dapat disimpulkan bahwa pesan dakwah Ali Syari’ati banyak menekankan aspek akidah dan akhlak, dengan ciri-ciri sebagai berikut; (1) Isi pesan dakwah Syari’ati menggunakan metodologi analisis sosiologi sejarah  dengan menggunakan penalaran atau logika komparasi, (2)Tauhid menjadi basis dalam setiap isi pesan dakwah Syari’ati, (3) Isi pesannya selalu menggungah dan progresif, hal ini dicirikan dengan penafsiran dan pemaknaan baru, (4) mempunyai komitmen terhadap budaya dan tradisi masyarakat setempat, (5) Islam harus menjadi basis pergerakan dan memihak kaum lemah, (6) Lebih menekankan aspek akidah akhlak.

scholarly journals Etika Berhias Perspektif Tafsir Al-Munir: Sebuah Kajian Sosiologis

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-113
Author(s):  
Muhamad Yoga Firdaus
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Sociological Approach ◽  
Surrounding Environment

This study aims to discuss the ethics of decorated with the Tafsir Al-Munir perspective. This research method is qualitative through literature study with a sociological approach. The results and discussion of this research include the understanding of ethics, the meaning of the Tafsir Al-Munir, and the ethics decorated with the perspective of Tafsir Al-Munir on sociological analysis. This research concludes that decorating is a necessity of human life that must be equipped with ethics. The ethics inherent in decorative activities can give rise to good views from the surrounding environment to create collective goodness in the sphere of social life. This study recommends that further research be carried out related to ethics and decoration based on other interpretive perspectives.

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