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Steven Janny Palilingan
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Dari Berdoa Menjadi Berharap: “Kebenaran Baru”, Scientism, dan Negosiasi Makna Spiritual dalam Wacana Digital Steven Janny Palilingan; Suhartono Mudakir
Coram Mundo: Jurnal Teologi dan Pendidikan Agama Kristen Vol. 8 No. 2 (2026): Agustus : Coram Mundo : Jurnal Teologi dan Pendidikan Agama Kristen
Publisher : Sekolah Tinggi Teologi Injili Arastamar (SETIA) Ngabang

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.55606/corammundo.v8i2.780

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This article analyzes a case of digital religious discourse in which prayer, work, probability, and scientific authority intersect in public conversation. Using Norman Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis within a single-case design, the study examines a verbatim transcript of a 2024 Facebook talk show on “Ora et Labora.” The analysis is deliberately limited to discursive operations: semantic reconfiguration, analogy, epistemic modality, and reported speech. Four patterns emerge: (1) the resemanticization of “prayer” as “hope”; (2) a mechanistic robot analogy used to question the functional necessity of prayer for work; (3) the deployment of the vocabulary of correlation, causation, possibility, and probability as a source of epistemic authority; and (4) the circulation of derogatory labeling through reported speech. These findings are not treated as evidence of the speakers’ psychological intentions or as representative of Indonesian religiosity as a whole. Rather, they are interpreted as a bounded case of negotiation among empirical, philosophical, and theological claims. The critique of Scientism is therefore framed as an epistemological dialogue: scientific caution about correlation and causation is acknowledged as legitimate within empirical inquiry, while any extension of such caution into comprehensive metaphysical conclusions requires additional philosophical argument. This approach offers a more proportionate account of science, religion, and digital authority.
Co-Authors Suhartono Mudakir