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Religio : Jurnal Studi Agama-agama
ISSN : 20886330     EISSN : 25033778     DOI : 10.15642/religio
Core Subject : Religion, Social,
Jurnal yang mengeksplorasi gagasan kreatif dan solutif seputar tema agama dan sosial-budaya. Selain sebagai wahana sosialisasi, jurnal Religio diharapkan bisa menjadi ruang publik (public sphere) bagi masyarakat, khususnya bagi para akademisi, peneliti, dan praktisi. Substansi isi tulisan jurnal, lebih menitikberatkan pada agenda pengembangan pola pikir keberagamaan yang moderat, yang berpijak pada nilai-nilai demokrasi, pluralisme, multikulturalisme dan toleransi agama. Jurnal Religio didedikasikan untuk mewujudkan paradigma masyarakat agama yang harmonis, pluralis dan transformatif, baik dalam konteks lokal, nasional maupun internasional. Dengan demikian, kehadiran di tengah-tengah masyarakat, diharapkan dapat bermanfaat bagi pencapaian cita-cita bersama, yaitu membangun kehidupan beragama yang menjunjung tinggi nilai-nilai persamaan, keadilan dan perdamaian.
Arjuna Subject : Umum - Umum
Articles 417 Documents
Healing as Religious Diffusion: A Postcolonial Reading of the Igbe Orhe Religious Movement in Urhoboland, Nigeria Fortune, Afatakpa Onoseme
Religió Jurnal Studi Agama-agama Vol. 16 No. 1 (2026): March
Publisher : Department of Religious Studies, Faculty of Ushuluddin and Philosophy, Sunan Ampel State Islamic University Surabaya

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15642/religio.v16i1.4062

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This article examines the spread of Igbe Orhe, an indigenous African religion originating in Kokori, Delta State, Nigeria, highlighting the role of healing as a mechanism for religious expansion. Departing from the perspective of religious diffusion studies, which have focused on world religions, this study analyzes how Igbe Orhe spread beyond Urhoboland through therapeutic authority and healing practices. The study employs a qualitative approach, drawing on interviews, oral traditions, and archival sources, and is explained through Achille Mbembe’s postcolonial framework. The findings indicate that Igbe Orhe developed through contagious, relocational, and hierarchical spread. Central to this process are the therapeutic authority of Ubiesha Etarakpor and the healing of Idubor, who catalyze the religion’s expansion beyond the Urhobo community. The findings also demonstrate that Igbe Orhe possesses capacities for adaptation, reproduction, and expansion comparable to those of more established religious traditions. Thus, this study challenges the assumption that Indigenous African Religions (IARs) are static and confined to local contexts. The case of Igbe Orhe demonstrates that Indigenous African Religions have the capacity to expand beyond ethnic and geographical boundaries and provide insights into the universality of religion and the decolonization of religious studies.
Religious Conversion in the Era of Cyber Proselytism in Indonesia: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Social Media Religious Content Warsito, Loekisno Choiril; Ly, Le Ngoc Bich
Religió Jurnal Studi Agama-agama Vol. 16 No. 1 (2026): March
Publisher : Department of Religious Studies, Faculty of Ushuluddin and Philosophy, Sunan Ampel State Islamic University Surabaya

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15642/religio.v16i1.4069

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The proliferation of social media has transformed online spaces into arenas of active religious persuasion, as evidenced by conversion movements organized around hashtags such as #hijrah and #SaveMaryam. This study addresses religious conversion in the era of cyber through a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) of 68 purposively sampled content items drawn from Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, and WhatsApp, published between 2021 and 2025, encompassing both Islamic da’wa and Christian cyber evangelism. The analysis integrates Fairclough’s three-dimensional model, van Dijk’s socio-cognitive approach, and Wodak’s discourse-historical framework with digital religion theory and Rambo’s model of religious conversion. Four principal discursive strategies are identified: authenticity discourse; accessibility discourse; community discourse; and crisis discourse. These strategies constitute an integrated “persuasive ecology” in which each reinforces the others to address the cognitive, emotional, and social dimensions of religious persuasion simultaneously. The findings demonstrate that cyber proselytism is not traditional religious persuasion transposed into digital form but a qualitatively new discursive formation shaped by platform affordances and algorithmic logics.
Textual Delegitimization of Christian Scriptures in Izhar al-Haqq of Rahmatullah Kairanawi Al Masud, Abdullah; Zakaria , Mohammad; Mahmud, Md. Abdullah Al; Alfian, Anang Gunaifi
Religió Jurnal Studi Agama-agama Vol. 15 No. 2 (2025): September
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15642/religio.v15i2.3681

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Rahmatullah Kairanawi, a nineteenth-century Indian Islamic scholar and a groundbreaking critic of Christianity, witnessed the expansion of Christian missionaries sweeping across India. He responded through intellectual and polemical activism by producing several comparative theological works. His magnum opus, Izhar al-Haqq, fundamentally reshaped the understanding of Islam, providing a missiological apologia and influencing the peoples of both traditions. This paper is qualitative library research employing a content analysis approach. The primary source of this research is the book Izhar al-Haqq by Rahmatullah Kairanawi, while secondary sources include works on Muslim-Christian polemics, biblical studies, and historical accounts. The data are analyzed by identifying major themes, argumentative patterns, and discursive strategies used by Kairanawi in criticizing Christian scriptures and doctrines. The study finds that Izhar al-Haqq does not merely function as a refutational text but also constructs a textual delegitimization by exposing internal contradictions, anachronisms, and the historically contingent formation of biblical texts. The paper further demonstrates that Kairanawi’s approach represents an early model of modern Muslim apologetics that continues to shape contemporary Islam-Christian polemical engagements.
Ritual, Personhood, and Ecological Ethics: Negotiating Indigenous Ontology and Islam in Molamahu Badu Pakuna, Hatim; Rostitawati, Tita; Hunowu, Momy; Fadhilah, Amir; Daulay, Pardamean
Religió Jurnal Studi Agama-agama Vol. 15 No. 2 (2025): September
Publisher : Department of Religious Studies, Faculty of Ushuluddin and Philosophy, Sunan Ampel State Islamic University Surabaya

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15642/religio.v15i2.3721

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This article examines Mopo’a Huta, an indigenous ritual practiced by the Molamahu community in Gorontalo, Indonesia, as a site where ecological ethics are enacted through lived religious practice. Existing studies have often framed such rituals either as remnants of pre-Islamic spirituality or as implicit forms of eco-theology. Moving beyond these approaches, this study employs a qualitative descriptive method informed by the concepts of relational personhood and lived religion. Based on participant observation and in-depth interviews, the study shows that Mopo’a Huta is grounded in a relational ontology in which humans, non-human beings (lati-latiyalo), and the natural environment are understood as moral participants in a shared socio-ecological world. Ecological norms emerge not from formal theological reflection but from ritualized relationships and communal practice. Islamic elements incorporated into the ritual reflect ongoing negotiation of religious legitimacy rather than a linear transformation of belief. This study argues that Mopo’a Huta functions as a form of lived religion in which indigenous ontologies and Islamic normativity coexist and are continually renegotiated. By foregrounding ritual practice as the locus of ecological ethics, this study contributes to broader discussions on religion and ecology and indigenous Muslim environmental ethics.
Mediated Religious Literacy: From Digital Escalation to Institutional Closure in the Shalom Aleichem Controversy Pikri, Zainal; Muthmainnah, Inna
Religió Jurnal Studi Agama-agama Vol. 15 No. 2 (2025): September
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15642/religio.v15i2.3745

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This article examines how religious literacy is produced through mediated public discourse by analyzing the controversy surrounding Panji Gumilang and the circulation of Shalom Aleichem (SA) and Havenu Shalom Aleichem (HSA) in Indonesian media. Rather than treating religious literacy as theological knowledge or individual competence, the study conceptualizes it as a mediated achievement shaped by discursive practices in digital and broadcast media. Using qualitative discourse analysis of YouTube content and televised discussions—particularly on TVOne—the article traces how initially ambiguous religious expressions were progressively reclassified through labeling, repetition, and moral framing. Media narratives transformed SA from an interreligious greeting into a marker of religious deviance and geopolitical suspicion, linking it to Judaism, Zionism, and perceived threats to religious and national order. The analysis shows that religious literacy in this context does not emerge through dialogical understanding or theological clarification, but through mediated processes that reduce ambiguity and produce moral certainty. Media actors function as key agents in stabilizing religious meaning by defining what counts as legitimate, deviant, or dangerous religious expression in public space. By foregrounding media discourse as a site of religious meaning-making, this article demonstrates how religious literacy in contemporary Indonesia is shaped through mediation, power, and governance rather than neutral knowledge transmission.
Dondy Tan’s Da‘wah Model on Christology: A Virtual Ethnography Study Musadad, Ahmad; Mohammad Ali Hisyam; Baihaqi; Mochamad Syaifudin; Tri Pujiati; Fauzi, Alfa Zaidanil
Religió Jurnal Studi Agama-agama Vol. 15 No. 2 (2025): September
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15642/religio.v15i2.3763

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The digital da‘wah increasingly occupies an important place in contemporary Islamic studies, particularly amid growing interfaith interaction and media cultural transformation. This article examines an emerging da‘wah model of Christology developed by Dondy Tan, a Chinese Indonesian Muslim convert. His da‘wah has attracted significant attention among Indonesians, particularly among those seeking to deepen their interfaith theological awareness. This research employs a qualitative digital ethnography with a descriptive-analytical design. The data is mainly collected from Dondy Tan’s YouTube channel, podcasts, and related media sources from 2023 to 2025. In addition, the theoretical frameworks of media convergence, interreligious dialogue, and identity transformation are used to analyze and interpret the phenomenon of digital da‘wah. This study found that Dondy Tan’s da‘wah on Christology is a transformative convergent da‘wah: it converges digital technology and active virtual participation, creating an inclusive and moderate interreligious debate and dialogue, and it transforms individuals, as the da‘wah is institutionally providing religious counselling and social commitment for converts.
Digital Patriarchy and the Framing of Religious Authority: Narratives of Muslim Women on Instagram Maf’ula, Nur Rahmah Hanim; Zamzami, Mukhammad; Aljahsh, Muhammad Ahmad Ibrahim
Religió Jurnal Studi Agama-agama Vol. 15 No. 2 (2025): September
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15642/religio.v15i2.3857

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The study investigates the operation of digital patriarchy through the framing of religious narratives on the Indonesian Instagram account of @ukhtiakhiantiselfie. Employing a descriptive-interpretive approach grounded in Robert N. Entman’s framing theory, the article analyzes how visual content and hadith-based texts construct Muslim women’s bodies as subjects of moral regulation. The findings reveal that women are consistently framed as inherent “moral risks”, legitimizing control through selective, literalist interpretations of sacred texts. However, by engaging with Nur Rofiah’s Islamic feminist hermeneutics and Heidi Campbell’s theory of digital religious authority, the study demonstrates that these digital spaces also serve as arenas for negotiating religious meaning. Ultimately, this research highlights the political and epistemological tensions between the reinforcement of patriarchal norms and the potential for the feminist reconstruction of religious authority in contemporary digital Islam.

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