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Journal of Contemporary Rituals and Traditions
Published by Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung
ISSN : -     EISSN : 29885884     DOI : https://doi.org/10.15575/jcrt
Core Subject : Religion, Humanities, Social,
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The Journal of Contemporary Rituals and Traditions is a scholarly publication dedicated to the exploration and analysis of contemporary rituals and traditions from diverse cultural, social, and religious contexts. The journal provides a platform for interdisciplinary research and critical discourse on the significance, evolution, and meaning of rituals and traditions in the modern world. JCRT welcomes contributions from scholars, researchers, and practitioners in anthropology, sociology, religious studies, cultural studies, folklore, and performance studies. The journal publishes original research articles, theoretical discussions, comparative analyses, and case studies that shed light on various aspects of contemporary rituals and traditions, including their cultural, social, psychological, and symbolic dimensions.
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Ritual Practice and Cultural Continuity in Urban Diaspora: Nias Catholics in Bandung, Indonesia Hadrianus Tedjoworo; Stefanus Deliati Hulu
Journal of Contemporary Rituals and Traditions Vol. 4 No. 1 (2026)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15575/jcrt.1488

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Purpose: This study examines how Nias Catholics in Bandung maintain their religious and cultural identity within a multicultural urban diaspora. It focuses on religious practices, community support, cultural preservation, and the need for inculturation in Church life. Methodology: The study employed a qualitative descriptive design supported by descriptive frequency counts derived from coded open-ended questionnaire responses. Data were collected through an online questionnaire completed by 32 respondents, one focus group discussion involving six participants, and in-depth interviews with six key informants. The data were analyzed thematically, while questionnaire responses were categorized and presented using frequencies and percentages. Findings: The findings show that religious practice remains an important foundation of identity. Twenty-nine respondents (90.6%) participated in church activities, and 20 respondents (62.5%) attended Sunday Mass. However, community support was uneven: 9 respondents (28.1%) reported receiving no support, while 10 respondents (31.3%) perceived no cooperation between KNKB and the local Church. In addition, 16 respondents (50.0%) reported the absence of culturally based faith formation. Respondents also emphasized Nias-language liturgy, stronger community formation, digital engagement, and intercultural dialogue as important strategies for sustaining identity. Implications: The findings highlight the need for stronger coordination between KNKB and the local Church, more inclusive community outreach, contextual catechesis, culturally grounded liturgy, and the use of digital media to support dispersed members. Intercultural dialogue is also important for maintaining cultural distinctiveness while encouraging openness and coexistence within Bandung’s multicultural environment. Originality and Value: This study offers an integrated empirical analysis of religious practice, community support, and inculturation among an internal Catholic diaspora in Indonesia. Its originality lies in showing that Nias religious and cultural identities are maintained simultaneously and continually negotiated through liturgical participation, community relationships, and culturally meaningful practices.
Negotiating Faith, Ritual, and Ecology: Islamic–Hindu Acculturation and Interreligious Cohesion in the Petik Laut Ritual of Pengambengan, Bali Abdul Karim; Jumhur Jumhur; Cucu Setiawan; Maulani Maulani; Nidal Rabbani
Journal of Contemporary Rituals and Traditions Vol. 4 No. 1 (2026)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15575/jcrt.2014

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Purpose: This study examines how Petik Laut, a coastal sea thanksgiving ritual in Pengambengan, Jembrana, Bali, functions as a negotiated arena of Islamic–Hindu acculturation, interreligious cohesion, and coastal environmental ethics. It addresses the need to move beyond viewing coastal rituals merely as cultural heritage, syncretic practice, or one-way Islamization by analyzing how religious boundaries, shared participation, and ecological responsibility are produced within a multi-religious fishing community. Methodology: This study employed a qualitative ethnography of religion. Data were collected during the 2025 Petik Laut ritual cycle through participant observation, semi-structured interviews with 15 key informants, and visual documentation. Informants included religious leaders, civic leaders, committee members, senior fishermen, youth participants, and community members. The data were analyzed using thematic analysis and Geertzian thick description to interpret symbolic transformation, boundary-making, interreligious cooperation, and ecological meaning. Findings: The study reveals three main findings. First, Islamic-Hindu acculturation occurs through symbolic relabeling, Islamic liturgical adaptation, and committee-based theological boundary-making. Ritual elements such as offerings, larung (the ritual release of offerings into the sea), decorated boats, and prayers are not erased but reinterpreted to remain culturally meaningful while reducing theological ambiguity. Second, interreligious cohesion is produced through gotong royong (communal mutual assistance), joint committee work, shared ritual space, differentiated participation, and collective maritime narratives such as the idea that “the sea belongs to everyone.” Third, ecological ethics are embedded through the understanding of the sea as rezeki (divinely granted sustenance or blessing), the use of biodegradable materials, plastic reduction, beach cleaning, youth monitoring, and informal social control. However, the ritual’s sustainability is challenged by declining youth involvement, tourism commodification, and debates over religious orthodoxy. Implications: The findings suggest that sustaining Petik Laut requires community-based ritual governance, stronger youth participation, ethical tourism management, and clearer environmental rules. The ritual should not be treated merely as a cultural festival, but as a local institution linking pluralism, maritime identity, and ecological responsibility. Originality: This study contributes to ritual studies by showing that a coastal ritual can simultaneously function as a mechanism of religious negotiation, an infrastructure of interreligious cohesion, and a medium of religious ecology. It challenges one-way narratives of Islamization by demonstrating that Muslim and Hindu actors jointly negotiate ritual authority, symbolic meaning, and environmental ethics within a shared ritual cycle.
Postdigital Rituals in Laptop Orchestras: Human–Computer Interaction and Second-Order Resonance Charles White; Lawrence Wilde
Journal of Contemporary Rituals and Traditions Vol. 4 No. 1 (2026)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15575/jcrt.3081

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Purpose: This study examines how rituals operate within laptop orchestras as postdigital performance environments. Although laptop orchestras have commonly been discussed as technological innovations and pedagogical models, their ritual structures and their role in mediating human–computer interaction (HCI) remain underexplored. This article therefore investigates how ritual practices are adapted across different laptop orchestra contexts and how they contribute to second-order resonance in technology-mediated collective performance. Methodology: The study employs a qualitative interpretive design that combines comparative performance analysis with autoethnographic observation. It focuses on three performances: Nonspecific Gamelan Taiko Fusion (2006) by the Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk), Twilight (2013) by the Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk), and Farben (2024) by the Postdigital Laptop Ensemble at the University of Siegen (PULSE). The data consist of audiovisual recordings, photographs, stage diagrams, program notes, contextual documentation, and autoethnographic fieldnotes produced during rehearsals, technical setup, and performance. Findings: The study finds that ritualized spatial arrangements, gestural coordination systems, and symbolically charged technological objects structure collective performance across the three cases. These ritual forms stabilize technology-mediated interaction, organize collective creativity, and transform digital devices into meaningful performance artifacts. Across the cases, rituals function as interactional infrastructures that mediate HCI and support sustained collective engagement. Implications: The findings suggest that laptop orchestras should be understood not only as technological or musical innovations, but also as ritual environments that organize distributed agency between performers and technological systems. This has implications for ritual studies in digital society, performance pedagogy, and research on technology-mediated collective creativity. Originality and Value: This study contributes to postdigital scholarship by conceptualizing laptop orchestras as postdigital ritual environments and by extending the concept of second-order resonance into technology-mediated artistic practice.
Yoruba Ritual Cosmology in Contemporary Streaming Media: Spiritual Obligation and Liminality in Aníkúlápó: Rise of the Spectre Theophilus Adedokun
Journal of Contemporary Rituals and Traditions Vol. 4 No. 1 (2026)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15575/jcrt.3148

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Background: Nigerian popular television had increasingly engaged indigenous African cosmologies as narrative frameworks, yet scholarly analysis of how these systems were represented with cultural fidelity remained limited. Nollywood (the Nigerian film industry) productions centring Yoruba traditional belief offered a productive but underexamined site for interrogating the intersection of indigenous epistemology and postcolonial media practice. Purpose: This study examined Aníkúlápó: Rise of the Spectre (2024), a Nigerian Netflix series, as a cultural text engaging Yoruba cosmology, death rituals, and spiritual obligation. It investigated how the series constructed metaphysical order, moral accountability, and political authority, and whether these representations sustained or merely aestheticized African indigenous frameworks in postcolonial media production. Method: The study adopted a qualitative design employing cultural textual analysis across all six episodes. Three complementary strategies were applied. Narrative analysis traced how ritual elements structured character motivation and plot development. Semiotic analysis decoded the symbolic functions of key objects including a ritual amulet, palm wine, and cowries. Cultural criticism evaluated representational authenticity against Yoruba ethnographic scholarship. The framework drew on theories of ritual practice, liminality, gift exchange and reciprocal obligation, and postcolonial African cinema criticism. Results: The series effectively visualised Yoruba beliefs about the soul's journey after death, the moral weight of interfering with divinely ordained death, and the binding nature of spiritual obligations between the living and the dead. The protagonist functioned as a psychopomp, a figure who guided souls between realms, whose unresolved threshold existence drove the central conflict. However, the series failed to sustain its cosmological logic as spiritual debts were deferred without consequence, sacred objects were reduced to plot devices, and patriarchal structures constraining female characters were depicted without critical interrogation. Conclusion: The study demonstrated that the representation of African traditional religion in popular media required sustained engagement with the philosophical frameworks underlying ritual practice rather than visual spectacle alone. Cosmological coherence and critical depth proved essential accompaniments to aesthetic ambition for such productions to serve as meaningful vehicles of cultural transmission. Contribution: This study provided the first systematic thematic analysis of the series as both a ritual enactment and a postcolonial media text. It advanced scholarship on African cosmologies in popular media, indigenous ritual performance, and Nollywood's evolving role in cultural preservation, offering a replicable analytical model for examining ritual representation in African screen media.
Besesandingon, Melangun, and Ritual Healing among the Suku Anak Dalam: A Marcelian Interpretation of Relational Health during COVID-19 Pahmi Pahmi; Khairun Najib; Edi Kurniawan
Journal of Contemporary Rituals and Traditions Vol. 4 No. 1 (2026)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15575/jcrt.3178

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Purpose: This study examines how Suku Anak Dalam (SAD) customary leaders classify illness, implement besesandingon and melangun in response to perceived epidemic threats, and integrate spiritual rituals with plant-based healing. It also interprets the relational logic connecting these practices through Gabriel Marcel’s philosophy of intersubjectivity. Methods: The study employed a qualitative mini-ethnographic case study conducted from September to November 2020 in the Air Hitam and Kejasung SAD communities, located near Bukit Duabelas National Park in Jambi, Indonesia. Data were obtained from seven key customary leaders and three supplementary participants through participant observation, unstructured and joint interviews, group conversations, and contemporaneous field notes. The data were analyzed manually using open and focused thematic coding. Findings: Three interconnected dimensions were identified. First, SAD diagnosis combined bodily symptoms with customary conduct, contact with outsiders, ecological signs, and spiritual relations. Second, besesandingon regulated localized risks through distancing, temporary separation, indirect communication, and customary authorization, whereas melangun involved broader residential relocation associated with death, misfortune, or communal danger. Third, medicinal plants were embedded within basale/bedeki, guidance from Badewo, observance of pantangaon, family participation, and access to Tanah Gedong Obat. These findings indicate that diagnosis, prevention, and healing were organized through a relational rather than individually centered logic. Research implications: Health engagement with SAD communities should involve recognized customary authorities and respect community protocols governing access, ritual knowledge, and ecological resources. The findings are ethnographic and do not establish botanical, clinical, or epidemiological effectiveness. Originality/value: This study integrates SAD disease cosmology, epidemic-response practices, and ritual–herbal healing within a single analytical framework. Marcel’s concept of esse est co-esse is used to clarify their relational coherence without equating SAD cosmology with Western philosophical categories.

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