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Journal of Religion and Decoloniality
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Religion Arts Humanities Environmental Science Social Sciences
Journal of Religion and Decoloniality (JRD) is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary academic journal exploring the intersections of religion, spirituality, and decolonial thought. It explores how religious traditions, theological frameworks, and spiritual practices are implicated and can respond to histories and structures of coloniality. This journal provides a critical platform for scholars, practitioners, and activists who engage with religious traditions, institutions, and epistemologies through decolonial lenses. The journal is published under Elkuator Research and Publication.
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Decolonizing Education and the Green Economy: Religious and Indigenous Resistance to Extraction in Indonesia Sopian Lubis; Husayn Muhyideen Ali; Ali Ali
Journal of Religion and Decoloniality Vol. 1 No. 1 (2025): Journal of Religion and Decoloniality
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24260/jrd.1.1.40

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Indigenous communities in Indonesia often face serious challenges, especially when dealing with conflicts related to resistance to epistemic dominance in extractive economic practices. This resistance is manifested through a decolonial educational approach rooted in spiritual and religious values. This research uses a qualitative document analysis method, by examining various academic literature, laws and regulations, and empirical case studies. In this study, the form of resistance of indigenous peoples is not only physical or material, but also includes the dimension of knowledge and perspective on nature and development. This study specifically highlights the case of the Mollo and Orang Rimba communities, as well as the role of two major religious organizations in Indonesia, namely Muhammadiyah and Nahdlatul Ulama. All three are understood as a more grounded alternative to the concept of green economy which tends to be state-centric. The ritual practices of indigenous peoples and religious fatwas are a form of profound criticism of the current direction of development. However, contradictions also arise when religious organizations begin to negotiate with community-oriented state policies. The researchers' findings suggest that the decolonization of education and the enforcement of ecological justice are crucial. Both function as a plural and inclusive epistemological foundation in responding to colonialism that has been rooted in the relationship between indigenous peoples, religions, and the state. Therefore, the active involvement of indigenous peoples and religious organizations that prioritize spiritual values as well as a commitment to ecological sustainability and environmental governance has the potential to realize a transformation towards a more just and sustainable life, within the framework of an ecological human rights that respects the rights of indigenous peoples.
Freedom on Whose Terms? A Decolonial Re-Examination of Religion in Indonesia Kurnia; Andi Miftahul Maulidil Mursyid
Journal of Religion and Decoloniality Vol. 1 No. 1 (2025): Journal of Religion and Decoloniality
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24260/jrd.1.1.43

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Restrictions on freedom of religion in Indonesia lead to discrimination against religious groups and generate social pressures reinforcing practices of intolerance. This situation highlights the urgency of rethinking the decolonial process in the legal framework of religious freedom, particularly regarding the recognition of the rights of indigenous belief systems (aliran kepercayaan) and religious minorities. This study employs a qualitative approach grounded in decolonial theory, drawing on data from Setara Institute reports spanning from 2014 to 2024. It addresses three central questions: How can decoloniality be interpreted within the context of religion in Indonesia; How does religious freedom challenge contemporary manifestations of colonialism, and; How do colonial legacies continue to shape current religious expressions and legal structures? First, colonial-era thought structures still influence the persistence of religious intolerance in Indonesia; Second, the existing legal framework continues to reproduce exclusive interpretations of religious freedom, contributing to the ongoing marginalization of minority groups, and; Third, dominant political-legal frameworks perpetuate conditions that lead to the violation of religious freedom. These findings suggest that freedom of religion in Indonesia has terms and conditions that must be critically examined.
Countering Cultural Stigmatization in a Decolonized System of Inter-ritual Encounters in Aceh, Indonesia Muhammad Maulana
Journal of Religion and Decoloniality Vol. 1 No. 1 (2025): Journal of Religion and Decoloniality
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24260/jrd.1.1.45

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This article examines how inter-ritual encounters in Aceh, Indonesia, serve as a decolonized system countering cultural stigmatization by challenging dominant narratives and reshaping religious boundaries through community-based interactions. Addressing prevalent perceptions of Aceh as socially exclusive due to its strong Islamic identity, this study emphasizes everyday interreligious engagements emerging through ritual presence, communal participation, and reciprocal social practices. Utilizing qualitative data drawn from digital archives, online media, and visual documentation, the research explores how Muslim communities participate in Hindu Tamil and Chinese festivals, while non-Muslim residents engage with Islamic spaces and events. These interactions, such as observing public rituals, providing technical assistance, food sharing, and visiting sacred sites, represent localized forms of mutual recognition rooted in community proximity and historical coexistence. The findings demonstrate that these inter-ritual practices constitute relational strategies affirming coexistence and rejecting externally imposed stigmas of intolerance. Framed within a decolonial perspective, the article highlights how everyday ritual interactions reflect alternative epistemologies grounded in lived social realities rather than institutional or legal frameworks. The study contributes to broader discussions of interreligious dynamics, suggesting its relevance to other global contexts where religious majorities significantly shape public life and interreligious relations, thus expanding the understanding of cultural coexistence and mutual respect in diverse religious environments.
A Colonized Islam: Pesantren, Resistance, and the Challenge of Religious Moderation in Indonesia Haris Fatwa Dinal Maula
Journal of Religion and Decoloniality Vol. 1 No. 1 (2025): Journal of Religion and Decoloniality
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24260/jrd.1.1.48

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Decoloniality confronts the persistent colonial frameworks and narratives that continue to influence global perceptions, including religious activities. Colonial discourses have frequently mischaracterized Islam, portraying it as intolerant and violent. This colonial heritage has concealed the authentic nature of Islam, especially its potential for moderation and peace. The lack of religious moderation among certain Muslims, influenced by colonial conceptions, has resulted in actions that are antithetical to the fundamental principles of Islam.  In response, Islamic boarding schools (pesantren) in Indonesia have adopted educational frameworks that prioritize moderation and challenge colonial myths. Pesantren Bumi Cendekia in Yogyakarta employs the four academic pillars to cultivate a moderate and progressive comprehension of Islam among its pupils (santri). This method promotes religious moderation while simultaneously countering the colonial legacies that have influenced Islamic education. Bumi Cendekia encourages students to engage with many religious and cultural traditions through these four pillars, fostering an inclusive and decolonized perspective of Islam. This qualitative study, integrating fieldwork and literature evaluation, examines how Bumi Cendekia’s educational method represents a decolonial reaction to global religious discourses, enabling students to adopt a moderate, progressive, and global-engaged Islam.
Liberating Women From Patriarchal-Colonial Reasoning: Vandana Shiva and amina wadud's Proposition on God and Nature Yazid Imam Bustomi
Journal of Religion and Decoloniality Vol. 1 No. 1 (2025): Journal of Religion and Decoloniality
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24260/jrd.1.1.53

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This study critically examines the construction of patriarchal culture in both religious and ecological spheres, shaped by distorted interpretations of religious teachings and maldevelopment in the environment. It delves into the thoughts of amina wadud and Vandana Shiva, analyzing the impact of colonialism in perpetuating women’s marginalization in the public sphere and the need for decolonization. Employing a qualitative and library research approach, this research highlights key findings on gender decolonization within the contexts of religion and ecology. Firstly, male-dominated interpretations of sacred texts should incorporate women’s experiences to avoid bias and conflict, including patriarchal prejudices against humans and the environment. Secondly, women must have equal access to natural resource management, as their sustainable practices contrast with the exploitative modern management practices. Lastly, to achieve a just social order, women should be trusted and empowered to play active roles in all areas of life, challenging patriarchal assumptions. By providing a theoretical framework for liberating women from patriarchal colonial legacies, this research makes a meaningful contribution to the discourse on gender decolonization.
Book Do Not Kill, the Readers Do So: Reflections on the Violence-Breeding Employment of Christianity Najib George Awad
Journal of Religion and Decoloniality Vol. 1 No. 2 (2025): Journal of Religion and Decoloniality
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24260/jrd.1.2.57

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This essay offers an overview of the phenomenon of violence in today’s public squares from a Christian perspective. It tries to anatomize the link that connects religiosity with violence and whether the latter is the by-product of the former at every case or not. It demonstrates that studying violence from a Christian perspective avoids approaching the religion-violence relation from either ‘all organized violence is religiously inspired’ or ‘religion is entirely benevolent’ one-sided position. The essay, then, proposes that there are considerably factual situations of secularly, politically, culturally and socially rooted violence that generates its own version of religious explanation and manifestation to implement in the service of its legitimization and longevity and for the sake of endowing its existence with necessity and significance.
A Review of Reza Shah-Kazemi's Common Ground Between Islam & Buddhism Arief Arman
Journal of Religion and Decoloniality Vol. 1 No. 1 (2025): Journal of Religion and Decoloniality
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24260/jrd.1.1.64

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At its core, this book offers crucial insights on the similarities between Islam and Buddhism at the transcendental level. The captivating text explores ideas around several relevant and significant themes that fall within three chapters: Setting the Scene, Oneness: The Highest Common Denominator, and Ethics of Detachment and Compassion. Shah-Kazemi expertly weaves through the intricacies of comparing the two distinct faith systems. The assessment is thorough and opens the possibility of looking at both traditions in a different light – the view which expresses a perennial truth that human beings are both simultaneously embedded and transcendent, with the immense potential for spiritual growth. The London-based academic points out that the objective of his work is to be as inclusive as possible, both as regards to ‘the other’ and to the Muslim perspective. Its implication is that the text is not just to reach out to Buddhists as an invitation to consider the Islamic tradition, but to also explain central concepts within Buddhism which might not be too familiar to Muslims.
Beyond State-Centered Sharia: Muslim Women, Decolonial Feminism, and Islamic Legal Authority in Aceh and Mindanao Syarifah Huswatun Miswar; Isnira Arap Baginda
Journal of Religion and Decoloniality Vol. 1 No. 2 (2025): Journal of Religion and Decoloniality
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24260/jrd.1.2.79

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Muslim‍ women in the Isla​mi​c peripherie​s of Aceh and M​indanao face complex challeng‍es ami​d persistent⁠ tensions⁠between official Islamic legal authority and ev⁠eryday social re⁠alit⁠ies. D‍e‌sp‌i‍te recognized⁠ religious aut‍onomy through Qanun Jinayat in‍ Aceh and‍ the Ba​ngsamoro Organic Law (BOL)‍ in‌ Min‌danao,‍ the i⁠nterpretation and en⁠forcem⁠ent of these legal f​rameworks rem⁠ai⁠n‌ domi‌n‍ated by male‍ aut⁠horities, producing gendered restr⁠ictions that fre​q​uent‍ly s⁠it u‍neasily with nati‍onal‌ human‍ rights guarantees in Indonesia an⁠d​ the P‌h⁠ilippines. This article employs decolonial feminist‍ approach to ex⁠amine‌ how Muslim women⁠ r‌espond to the‍se c‌ons⁠traints by drawing on liv‍e‍d experience, co‌ll‌ective memory, and g​ender‌ cons‌cious‍ r‌e‍ad⁠i‍ngs of​ Islamic t‌exts. Us‌ing a qualitative, docum⁠ent based comparativ‌e analys‌i‌s of l​egal provisions, policy⁠ documents, a‍n⁠d exi‌sting qualitative stud​ies on women in Ac⁠eh and Mindanao, it traces how patriarchal Islamic leg​al aut​h‍ority operates within plu⁠ral le‌gal systems and how wo​men contest it in practic‍e. The findi‍ngs s⁠h⁠ow that wome​n in‌both regions do not s‍i‍mply comply with state c⁠entred r⁠el‍igious⁠ law, b‍ut actively na​vigat‌e, res‍ist, and rein​terpret d⁠ominant lega⁠l system⁠s​ by en‌gaging Islamic ethical princ​iples, national huma⁠n rights di‍scourses, and community‌ based activism. Ace‍h and Mindanao thus exe⁠mplif‌y how I⁠slamic​ legal au​thority can be retho⁠ug‌ht⁠ fro‌m periph‌eral, gender sensitive persp‌ective⁠s. Th‌e article​ argu​es that these pract‍i‍c​es of epistemic dissen⁠t streng​then Isla​mic feminism and broaden the religious voices discourse in So​ut‍heast Asia by⁠ fore​gro⁠und​i⁠ng Muslim women as act‌ive co c‌reato‌rs of r⁠el⁠igiou​s meaning rather tha‌n pa‍ssive legal subjec​t.  
Decolonizing Buddhist Authority: Religious Nationalism and State-Sanctioned Violence in Myanmar Muhammad Maulidan
Journal of Religion and Decoloniality Vol. 1 No. 2 (2025): Journal of Religion and Decoloniality
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24260/jrd.1.2.84

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This paper discusses the involvement of religious authorities in the reproduction of violence against the Rohingya community in Myanmar. Using Johan Galtung's triangle of violence theory, this paper shows that violence does not only appear in physical forms, but is also institutionalized through state structures and normalized by religious narratives. This study traces how the 2017 military operations, the 1982 Citizenship Law, and the emergence of Buddhist nationalist movements such as Ma Ba Tha and the 969 Movement are part of a systematic process that legitimizes violence in the name of protecting religion and the nation. Rather than viewing Buddhism as a peaceful doctrine or its opposite, this paper highlights how religion is used as a tool of legitimation in postcolonial state-building projects. Religion serves to draw lines of identity between “us” and “them,” thereby enabling the state to exclude groups deemed incompatible with an exclusive national identity. Within Galtung's framework, direct violence against the Rohingya cannot be separated from structural violence that institutionalizes exclusion, and cultural violence that makes it appear legitimate. These three forms of violence reinforce each other and demonstrate that violence is not merely an aberration, but rather part of a planned and sustained logic of power. This article contributes to studies on religious nationalism, state violence, and the role of sacred authority in exclusionary politics
Embodied Queer Muslim Resistance: Negotiating Islam, Gender, and Sexuality from Pesantren Nanda Tsani Azizah
Journal of Religion and Decoloniality Vol. 1 No. 2 (2025): Journal of Religion and Decoloniality
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24260/jrd.1.2.98

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This article examines the intersections of queerness, faith, and resistance in the lived narratives of queer Muslims in Indonesia, with particular attention to the pesantren (Islamic boarding school) context. While dominant global narratives of LGBTQ rights have emerged from Western experiences—centered on visibility politics, Pride parades, and legal recognition—this study interrogates how such frameworks can marginalize queer Muslims whose lives are shaped by different cultural, religious, and political realities. Drawing from narrative interviews with three queer Muslims and one ally who spent years in pesantren environments (boarding house where santri or students learning Islamic teachings, etc.; a cottage), this research employs a decolonial and intersectional lens to highlight how participants navigate Islam, gender, and sexuality in their everyday lives. The findings show that pride and resilience among queer Muslims cannot be understood through Western liberal models alone but are expressed through alternative practices of belonging, storytelling, and religious embodiment. By engaging Melissa M. Wilcox’s concept of queer religiosities alongside decolonial critiques, this article argues that four Indonesian queer Muslims i.e. Ji, Ro, Durga, and Fik contribute new epistemologies that challenge the universality of Western queer theory and religious studies. Ultimately, the study underscores the need to provincialize dominant frameworks and recognize the multiplicity of queer life-worlds in the Global South.

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