scholarly journals The New Ustad in Religious Authority: Challenge and Dynamic of Fatwa in the New Media Era

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Afandi ◽  
Arif Rofiuddin ◽  
Arif Zamhari ◽  
Yusuf Rahman ◽  
Ade Farida ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Religious Authority

scholarly journals EVERYDAY QUR’AN DI ERA POST-KONSUMERISME MUSLIM

MUTAWATIR ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 179
Author(s):  
M. Endy Saputro
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
Religious Authority ◽  
Basic Approach ◽  
Emerging Issues ◽  
Preliminary Draft ◽  
Innovative Concept

<p>This paper aims to give a preliminary draft to formulate an innovative concept in the Qur’anic studies world in the age of post-consumerism Muslim. Recent studies on tug of war between globalization and religion have been identifying salient social transformation in some parts of Muslim world, such as the rise of new (media) religious authority, religious commodification trends, varieties of Islamic consumption, the emergence of public Islam and so forth. Apart from these recent scholarships, which successfully grasp the globalization’s influence toward religion (Islam), this paper offers the concept of everyday Qur’an as an alternative basic approach of understanding the cultures of Qur’an in this changing (Muslim) world and at the same time, seeking to briefly explain its emerging issues. Some exemplary issues then have analytically discussed to reflect how the proposed theory applied. Thus, everyday Qur’an can contribute the discourse of cultures based technology in the context of Qur’anic Studies. </p>

Remaking Ancient Virtues for the Virtual World

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fan Zhang
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Virtual World ◽  
Religious Authority ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Spiritual Leader

This article explores the use of communication technology for the dissemination of Buddhist narratives in post-Mao China. It presents a case study of how a thousand-year old Buddhist Longquan Monastery located in the outskirts of Beijing became an avant-garde of modern Buddhism in China with the help of communication technology. The analysis focuses on online rhetoric of Master Xuecheng, the abbot of Longquan and president of China's Buddhist Association, and new media strategies used by the proponents of modern Buddhism to form connections and to create new meaning. The author seeks to determine (a) whether new identities concerning citizenship and nationalism are forged; and (b) whether technology serves as a platform to popularize Buddhism online and offline. The argument is made that by constructing rhetoric that links technology with Buddhism and utilizing new media, the monks of Longquan strive to constitute the religious authority of modern Buddhism and its spiritual leader, Master Xuecheng.

Religious Authority and the New Media

2007 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryan S. Turner
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Religious Authority

scholarly journals Indonesian Islamic Studies: Selected Dissertation Bibliography 2000-2016

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 387
Author(s):  
M. Endy Saputro
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
New Media ◽  
Gender Issue ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Islamic Banking ◽  
Religious Authority ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Nahdlatul Ulama ◽  
New Framework ◽  
Islamic Organizations

The shifting of religious authority has been a primary issue of (un)published dissertations on Indonesian Islam. The collapse of Soeharto regime, more or less, takes salient effect on the rise of new religious authorities; while on the same time it provokes social change in the society. New religious mass organizations, such as Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia, Front Pembela Islam and Front Umat Islam, seem to be main critical discussion in certain dissertation in line with some topics which problematizes prominent Islamic organizations, Muhammadiyah and Nahdlatul Ulama, under new framework of analysis. New media and Islamic banking have to be other domain authorities that carefully discussed in some dissertation. Put it in another topics, gender issue take a untrivial position. In short, these dissertations topics tend to discuss more on Islam in popular authorities.Keywords:Islamic Studies, Bibliography, Dissertation, Indonesia

scholarly journals Television and the Gospel of Entertainment in Ghana

Exchange ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 144-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marleen de Witte
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
New Media ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Religious Authority ◽  
Critical Questions ◽  
Reality Show ◽  
Religious Subjectivity ◽  
Persuasive Power ◽  
Effective Source

Abstract Charismatic-Pentecostal ‘media ministries’ have become very successful in Africa’s new media fields. They shape new forms of public religiosity that spill over into various forms of popular culture and resonate with broad audiences. This article explores the emergence of new Pentecostal publics at the intersection of media, religion, and entertainment in Ghana, raising critical questions concerning the relations between these domains. It analyses two different religious television broadcasts: a television ministry by a well-known celebrity pastor and a gospel reality show featuring a preaching competition for youth. It also considers the debates and concerns such programmes evoke locally. The analysis shows that Pentecostalism’s employment of popular media and entertainment styles is an effective source of persuasive power, but also poses challenges with regard to binding people as committed Christians. The blurring of boundaries between religion and entertainment business causes insecurities about the authenticity of religious authority and religious subjectivity.

scholarly journals Da'wa in Social Media: The Views of Ustad Hanan Attaki and Felix Siauw to The Hijrah Phenomenon

Afkaruna ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. Layouting
Author(s):  
Nafik Muthohirin
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Current Trend ◽  
Religious Authority ◽  
Religious Texts ◽  
Muslim Youth ◽  
New Space ◽  
Religious Thinking ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
A Current

This article examines the views of Ustad Hanan Attaki (UHA) and Ustad Felix Siauw, who use social media as a medium of preaching. The utilization of the internet as a new way of preaching Islam has helped shape contemporary forms of religious thinking and behavior for Muslim youth in Indonesia. One of them is marked by the emergence of the trend of hijrah in their community. This study aimed to explain the Islamic views of UHA and Siauw, which have implications for the emergence and development of the hijrah trend. This research focuses on extracting data through observations on a number of predetermined social media accounts, field participation and interviews, and puts forward literature studies on the fragmentation of religious authority as a result of the emergence of a number of popular ustadz who use social media as a new space for preaching. Regarding the fragmentation of religious authority, this article is based on the thesis of Eickelman and Anderson, which states that the current religious authorities are those who have succeeded in transmitting religious texts and preaching them through new media. In more detail, this study discusses two important issues, namely the trend of Islamic da'wa on social media and, in particular, the implications of the Islamic views of UHA and Siauw for the emergence of the trend of hijrah Muslim youth. This article concludes that according to UHA, hijrah is a message of Islamic da'wa that not only tells about individual repentance but also as a current trend that young Muslims must follow. Meanwhile, Siauw interprets it as an effort to awaken the spirit of Muslims to achieve the establishment of the Islamic Khilafah.

scholarly journals British Muslims Navigating between Individualism and Traditional Authority

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hira Amin
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Online Discussions ◽  
Religious Authority ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Authority Figures ◽  
British Muslims ◽  
Do It Yourself ◽  
Traditional Authorities ◽  
The One ◽  
Personal Understanding

According to some sociologists, one of the hallmarks of modernity is the end of ‘pre-determined’ identities and its replacement with bricolage projects in which people literally create ‘do-it-yourself’ identities. This has also significantly impacted the religious sphere, where it has been argued that traditional authorities are constantly undermined by individualistic cultures, print media, rising literacy rates and, more recently, the internet. Through analysing online discussions, this article explores how some young, devout British Muslims navigate between individualism and their own personal understanding of Islam on the one hand and following traditional religious authority figures on the other. This article argues that British Muslims who are consciously trying to practise their faith are neither following traditional religious authoritative figures or institutions blindly nor fully rationalising and individualising their faith. Rather, they are involved in a complex process of choosing and self-restricting themselves to certain scholars that they believe are representative of Islam and thereafter critically engaging with the scholar and his or her verdicts by adding in their own opinions, experiences and even Islamic textual evidence. While this illustrates how religious authority is transforming in the age of new media, the persistent engagement with scholars also indicates how they still play a significant role in the shaping of Islam in Britain.

scholarly journals Potret dan Segmentasi Mad’u Dalam Perkembangan Media di Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (01) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Asna Istya Marwantika
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Religious Authority ◽  
Active Audience ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Echo Chambers ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Mass Media ◽  
Linear Nature

This article discusses portrait and segmentation of mad'u / da'wah audience in the development of media in Indonesia. Using descriptive analysis and audience concept from Dennis McQuail it was found that da'wah activities are basically always segmented, where messages and patterns of da'wah will always try to be adapted to the context of the audience. Correspondingly, da'wah activities and movements have emerged and evolved in various forms mediated by the mass media (print, radio and television) which are linear in nature and categorize the medium as a passive audience, while preaching activities mediated by new media (digital ) non-linear nature categorizes the madness as an active audience. This active category of mad'u passive-mad'u also has consequences and challenges such as the adaptation of the format of da'wah in the media, the commodification of religion, the shift of religious authority (preachers), the exposure of radicalism, it produce hoaxes, and echo chambers namely echo space that contains the views of people who think the same and one taste so it does not produce a good dialogue.

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