This study is entitled THE USES OF RELIGIOUS SYMBOL TO REPRESENT ISLAM (A Study on Religious Soap Opera Bukan Islam KTP). The background of the research is based on the facts of the arbitrary use of symbols to represent Islam shown on Indonesian televisions. The pattern of the use of religious symbols, either verbal or non-verbal symbols are generally explicit, but when examined using appropria…
This paper aims to discuss the acculturation of Islamic spectrum and local customs with special reference to the “cultural change” mechanism that reflected in Sundanese local incantations. In the tradition of Sundanese oral-literature, particularly those are widely used by “pananyaan” (local shaman), there are several magical spells that creatively assimilate with the Islamic symbols. …
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…
Islamic religious education or dakwah Islamiyah which has been run well in Indonesia has significantly succeeded to develop the symbols of religiosity. However, when these symbols are not followed by the increasing of moral quality, in fact, it is degenerated. Therefore, the role of religion has been critized as the pillar of the nation morality. There is the education of fundamental value, nam…
Right wing and left wing are the terms used by many people in judging the emergence of two giant paradigms: islam and marxism. Righ wing describes the appearance of Islam, while left wing is attributed to the concept and application of marxism. Substantially, righ" has the nation of good
Various social anomalies that occurred in this nation can represent the people (individuals) who are sick". The values of this nation in reality have not been able to effectively stem the rampant phenomenon of anomalies above. Various factors can cause the condition
The texts of the Qur'an may be understood as a collection of symbols, and cannot be interpreted in isolation from the context as their background. If semiotics is a science of symbols, then the texts of the Qur'an must be the fertile object for the study of semiotics. In the science of semiotics. In the science of semiotics, texts are deemed to have no end in themselves, meaning that we must no…
When humans interact each other, he wanted to manage the impression that he hopes will grow on other people to it. Goffman's dramaturgy approach views that every person doing the show for others. Dramaturgy theory approach also attempts to connect action with its meaning, and behavior with the determinant. In view of the dramaturgy of social life, the meaning is not the cultural heritage, socia…