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 purpose of this study is to investigate the development and the implementation of religious education curriculum developed by senior high schools [SMA] under religious foundations. This is a case study of SMA Muhammadiyah I Palangkaraya. Research design applied in this study is Stufflebeam's CIPP [Context, Input, Process, Product]. The result how: 1)SMA Muhammadiyah I Palangkaraya develops …
This paper basically argues that the many social problems that we are now faced are in fact product of the system of our religious education. The educational system of our Madrasas has not thus far shown its ability to address the spiritual needs of our students. This resulted in students absorbing the physical and at best the intellectual dimension of education by ignoring the moral and behavi…
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…
Since the enactment of the Law No. 32/2004 on local government, direct executive elections have been conducted in all regions in Indonesia. This has transfered the mandate of electing heads of local executive governments [governors, regents and mayors] from political elites, i.e. members of local parliaments, to the general people. This change has affected the way leader candidates use to gain …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…