Religion is considered as the essential value that controls behavior of each individual of society. Functionalism says that superstructure of ideology is the main standard which affects the framework in social structure and infra-structure. To understand religiosity of a certain society depens on how we deeply know the life style of them. Later, it also depens on their social structure. In this…
The activities of religious proselytizing are associated with various elements. They do not only involve religious proselytizer and those who are being invited to this call only, but also elements of the environment surrounding the proselytizing activity. Religious activity as a system contains many components such as input, conversion, output, feedback, and environment which all of them influe…
The curriculum of Islamic education applied in private senior high schools is not the same from one to another because they are permitted to implement the curriculum legalized by the Ministry of National Education on one hand, and local curriculum [the curriculum issued by their own foundations] on the other; and the curriculum of each school has its own characteristics. The main purpose of thi…
The objective of this research is to understand the religious freedom and the process of democratization in Indonesia. The result of this research shows that the religious freedom in Indonesia is regulated by the law. In this sense, religious freedom means freedom to choose and believe in certain religion, it does not mean that people have freedom to be atheism. In fact, the religious freedom i…
The article observes the features of Medieval Muslims' contributions on study of religions [religionswissenchaft]. A number of Muslim scholars penned more than a few works relating to religious and inter-cultural studies. Yet, the majority of modern western scholars had a similiar focus in religious studies by scientific studies, while others went further with a deep elaboration about their rel…
Religion continues to become a political resource in Indonesian politics. This has become more noticiable during the process of local elections. This article presents the results of the study on the use religious symbols during the election of the major [walikota] of the City of Jambi, Province of Jambi, held in 2008. The study focuses on two questions: 1)what are types of religious symbols use…
In this article, the author presents the results of the research on the use of religious symbols during the election of the governor of Lampung held in 2008. It focuses on three main questions: 1)forms of religious symbols used by candidates for governatorial office during their campaigns; 2)motifs of such a use of religious symbols; and 3)public perceptions on the use of religious symbols by g…
This article aims at describing the use of religious symbols during the election of the head of the city of Batam in 2006. Using a qualitative approach, this study found several forms in which religious symbols were used by each pair of candidates to win the vote, such as the expression of religious greetings and idioms during public campaigns, the distribution of religious-nuanced pamphlets, a…
Using the 2008 dataset on religious conflicts produced by Balai Litbang Agama Jakarta, the Ministry of Religious Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia, the author describes the patterns of religious conflicts in 10 provinces in teh western part of Indonesia during the periode 2004-2007. The patterns of religious conflicts include their types, trends across time, geographic distribution, forms, a…
Lampung is one Indonesian province which is geographically situated between the Provinces of South Sumatra and Banten. The latter two provinces are known to have cultural legacies of the past, including religious manuscripts, from the Darussalam Sultanante of Palembang and the Sultanante of Banten respectively. Given its geographic location, it is expected that lampung have received some influe…