Fikrah: Jurnal Ilmu Aqidah dan Studi Keagamaan
Vol 12, No 1 (2024): June 2024

The Rise of Interfaith Dialogue: Social Media, Youth, and Religious Inclusivity in Indonesia

Muhammad Alan Juhri (Universitas Islam Internasional Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
25 Jun 2024

Abstract

This paper investigates how interfaith dialogue discourse is now developing significantly with the role of social media and youth. Based on online research and virtual ethnography, this paper argues that creatively utilizing social media with involving youth as media-savvy is the main factor in significantly increasing the acceptance of interfaith dialogue discourse. In-depth content analysis with a focus on interfaith dialogue through YouTube podcasts reveals several strategies applied by the creator. This paper highlights several strategies, namely using hashtag and maximizing thumbnail, propagating podcasts with clickbait titles, consistenly uploading content, and connecting with other platforms. In addition, youth involvement also plays an important role in achieving significant interfaith dialogue such as by engaging them with humor and comedy, eye-catching appearance and millennial style, and visual persuasion. Finally, great acceptability achieved by interfaith podcasts on youtube has proven the existence of religious inclusivity in Indonesia.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

fikrah

Publisher

Subject

Religion Humanities

Description

We accept scholarly article that the subject covers textual and fieldwork studies with various perspectives of Aqidah: including religion thought, religion sectarian, Theology. Religious study: including inter-religion study, Islamic Islamic philosophy: Islamic philosopher thought, Islamic ...