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Religious: Jurnal Studi Agama-Agama dan Lintas Budaya
Published by Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung
ISSN : 25287230     EISSN : 25287249     DOI : -
Core Subject : Religion,
Religion
Religious: Jurnal Studi Agama-agama dan Lintas Budaya is a periodical academic journal which is published by ReligiousStudies Majors Ushuluddin Faculty UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung cooperate with: Asosiasi Studi Agama Indonesia (ASAI) publishes twice in the year (March-September). This Journal publishes new results studies and original researches on Religious studies related to the social and cultural context in Indonesia in the perspective of Comparative of Religion, Phenomenon of Religion, Anthropology, and Sociology of Religion.
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Regulating Religion and Expression in Indonesia: Blasphemy, Religious Authority, and the Transition from Article 156a(a) to Article 300 Desia Rakhma Banjarani; Rudi Natamiharja; Heni Siswanto; Meria Utama; Ros Amira bt Mohd Ruslan
Religious: Jurnal Studi Agama-Agama dan Lintas Budaya Vol. 10 No. 2 (2026)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15575/rjsalb.v10i2.21588

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Legal provisions regarding blasphemy and religion-related expression in Indonesia underwent a significant transition after Article 156a(a) of the old Criminal Code was replaced by Article 300 of the National Criminal Code. This study examines how that transition has altered the relationship between the protection of religion, religious authorities, and freedom of expression in Indonesia. The study employs a normative legal methodology, using both statutory and case-law approaches, through analysis of legislation, Constitutional Court decisions, a number of blasphemy cases, and relevant scholarly literature. The legal materials were analyzed using the principles of legality, legitimate purpose, necessity, and proportionality as reflected in the Siracusa Principles, while also taking into account international human rights standards regarding religious expression. The research findings indicate that the application of Article 156a(a) of the old Criminal Code relied heavily on judicial interpretation and religious authority in determining whether a particular expression could be categorized as blasphemy, thereby rendering the boundary between protected expression and criminal acts uncertain. Article 300 of the National Criminal Code marks a significant normative shift by shifting the focus of criminal protection from religion as an abstract object toward the protection of individuals, groups, or communities from hostility, hatred, violence, or discrimination based on religion or belief, and by explicitly exempting certain forms of objective, community-specific, and scientific expression from criminal liability. Nevertheless, the use of concepts that remain open to interpretation suggests that the effectiveness of the new framework will depend heavily on future judicial interpretations. This study contributes to the field of religion and law by demonstrating how criminal law reform reconfigures the relationship between religious authorities, state regulation, and freedom of expression, while also offering a framework for assessing whether the new regime can avoid the interpretive uncertainties present in the previous blasphemy laws.
Religious and Political Radicalism in Nigeria: Converging Networks of Violence and the Reproduction of Human Insecurity Peter O. O. Ottuh; Grace Ogelenya; Doris Udoka Uti
Religious: Jurnal Studi Agama-Agama dan Lintas Budaya Vol. 10 No. 2 (2026)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15575/rjsalb.v10i2.38574

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Political and religious radicalism in Nigeria has developed within overlapping ecologies of violence that intensify human insecurity. This study examines how these two forms of radicalism interact to produce and reproduce human insecurity. The study employs a qualitative-analytical case study design based on documentary data, including scholarly articles, reports from governments and international organizations, policy documents, security statistics, and credible media sources. The study analyzes the data thematically through a deductive-inductive approach and uses the Staircase to Terrorism model as its analytical lens. The findings show that political radicalism operates through electoral violence, patronage networks, identity-based mobilization, informal armed actors, and the politicization of resource conflicts, whereas religious radicalism persists through insurgencies conducted by JAS/Boko Haram and ISWAP. In 2025, Nigeria recorded 171 terrorism-related incidents and 750 deaths. ISWAP and Boko Haram accounted for approximately 80% of these deaths, while civilians constituted 67% of the victims. These two ecologies of violence converge through armed networks, kidnapping, illicit economies, and weak state protection, which drive forced displacement, loss of livelihoods, disruptions to education, and the erosion of social cohesion. This study contributes to the literature by integrating political radicalism, religious radicalism, the economy of violence, and institutional weakness into a unified empirical mechanism that explains the reproduction of human insecurity.
Religion and National Identity: Negotiating Democratic Governance in Israel Yaron Katz
Religious: Jurnal Studi Agama-Agama dan Lintas Budaya Vol. 10 No. 2 (2026)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15575/rjsalb.v10i2.39664

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This study examines how religion and national identity interact with democratic governance in Israel, addressing the limited integration of institutional, electoral, and identity-based analyses in previous scholarship. Employing a qualitative case-study design, the research uses thematic documentary analysis supported by descriptive secondary quantitative evidence from legal documents, policy materials, official statistics, electoral data, and public-opinion surveys. The findings show, first, that religious influence on policymaking is domain-specific, coalition-dependent, and institutionally mediated, operating through religion–state arrangements in personal status, education, public funding, military service, and related policy domains. Second, religious–secular differentiation is reflected in socioeconomic participation, electoral behavior, and contrasting public assessments of Israel’s Jewish and democratic character. Third, Jewish national identity has clear constitutional expression, while minority recognition, political inclusion, and social cohesion vary across communities and institutional contexts. These findings imply that democratic governance requires institutional mechanisms capable of balancing religious autonomy, accountable representation, and equal citizenship. The study contributes an original integrated framework showing that religion, coalition politics, and national identity shape democratic governance through conditional and interconnected institutional processes.
From Religious Gathering to Ethnic Visibility: The Danu Son See Yar Day Festival and Identity Construction in Myanmar Ven. Javanasami
Religious: Jurnal Studi Agama-Agama dan Lintas Budaya Vol. 10 No. 2 (2026)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15575/rjsalb.v10i2.40557

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This article examines how the Danu Son See Yar Day (DSSYD) festival functions as a religious-cultural medium for strengthening ethnic visibility and identity among the Danu community in Myanmar, addressing the limited scholarly attention to festival-based minority identity formation. Using a qualitative research design, the study draws on documentary materials, participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and group discussions, with the data analyzed thematically. The findings show that Danu identity historically had limited public visibility due to weak symbolic and linguistic differentiation, dispersed interregional connectivity, limited cultural promotion, and comparatively low public-political visibility. DSSYD created a recurring shared arena where dispersed Danu communities could gather, strengthen social connections, and reinforce collective belonging through religious rituals and cultural performances. The festival also contributed to clearer ethnic visibility and broader coordination associated with the Danu National Conference and the Danu National Affairs Organization. These findings demonstrate that religious-cultural festivals can function as mechanisms of social visibility, communal solidarity, and institutional consolidation among minority communities. The study contributes an original account of how recurring festival interaction can connect ethnic identity formation with relational coordination and more durable forms of minority representation.
Religious Moderation and National Commitment at Sukorejo Pesantren, Indonesia: A Phenomenological Study Hosaini Hosaini; Kandiri Kandiri; Minhaji Minhaji; Luluk Maktumah; Zohaib Hassan Sain
Religious: Jurnal Studi Agama-Agama dan Lintas Budaya Vol. 10 No. 2 (2026)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15575/rjsalb.v10i2.40576

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Religious moderation is widely promoted in Indonesian Islamic education, yet less is known about how institutional values become meaningful in the everyday lives of pesantren communities. This study examines how religious moderation and national commitment are institutionalized, experienced, and interpreted at Salafiyah Syafi’iyah Sukorejo Pesantren, East Java. Using a qualitative single-case study with a phenomenological orientation, the study draws on semi-structured interviews with 11 purposively selected participants, field observations, and institutional documents. Data were analyzed through iterative thematic comparison across participant accounts, observed practices, and documentary evidence, with Berger and Luckmann’s social construction perspective used as a sensitizing framework at the interpretive stage. The findings identify four analytically related dimensions: institutional foundations, educational mediation, communal experience and habituation, and subjective civic-moral orientation. Religious moderation was embedded in institutional philosophy, curriculum, leadership, dialogical pedagogy, bahtsul masail, exemplary conduct, residential routines, civic activities, and social service. Participating santri interpreted these recurring experiences in terms of respect for difference, social responsibility, service, and national commitment compatible with Islamic moral identity. The study highlights the importance of educational culture and communal experience in moderation education and cautions against reducing moderation to formal curricular content or symbolic nationalism. Its originality lies in a case-based model that conceptualizes relationships among institutional, pedagogical, communal, and experiential dimensions without treating them as a fixed causal sequence.
Ritual Authority and Cultural Memory: Competing Narratives of Azan Pitu in Cirebon, Indonesia Ading Kusdiana; Wawan Hernawan; Husnul Qodim; Ahmad Suganda
Religious: Jurnal Studi Agama-Agama dan Lintas Budaya Vol. 10 No. 2 (2026)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15575/rjsalb.v10i2.44436

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This study examines how conflicting narratives regarding the Azan Pitu contribute to the formation of ritual authority and cultural memory in Cirebon, Indonesia. It explores the tension between the seven forms of the muezzin that have become established in contemporary practice and the heterogeneous representations found in various textual, historiographical, oral, and contemporary sources. This study employs a qualitative historical design that combines document analysis, historical source criticism, comparative narrative analysis, and a corpus audit of eleven textual sources, editions, and historiographical works related to the Cirebon tradition, supplemented by documented oral traditions, contemporary research, cultural documentation, and media reports. The findings indicate that the corpus of texts under study does not provide a single consistent narrative regarding the Azan Pitu: one source describes a protective call to prayer performed by a single figure, while another source depicts disturbances, fires, or threats to the mosque without mentioning the involvement of seven muezzins. The concept of seven muezzins is most clearly documented in oral, academic, and contemporary media representations. Despite their factual differences, these narrative layers converge around recurring motifs such as crisis, sacred space, spiritual authority, sacred voice, protection, loss, and the restoration of order. These findings suggest that the authority of the Azan Pitu is best understood through the interplay of cultural memory, ritual practice, and various forms of transmission rather than through a single, recoverable origin narrative. As a conceptual contribution, this study proposes cumulative narrative legitimation to explain how historically non-identical and even contradictory narratives can remain associated with the same ritual and provide symbolic resources through which ritual authority is articulated over time.
The Kudus Minaret as a Material-Symbolic Medium of Theological Acculturation and Social Tolerance in Contemporary Javanese Islam Moh Muhtador; Irzum Farihah; Ahmad Farid Fanani; Ni’matus Solihah
Religious: Jurnal Studi Agama-Agama dan Lintas Budaya Vol. 10 No. 2 (2026)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15575/rjsalb.v10i2.46689

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This study analyzes the Kudus Minaret in Indonesia as an expression of theological acculturation and examines how contemporary communities interpret its symbolism in relation to social tolerance in Kudus. This study is important because previous research has tended to examine the Kudus Minaret separately through architectural, historical, or tourism perspectives. The study employs a historical-interpretive qualitative approach, drawing on a literature review and semi-structured interviews with seven participants: one mosque administrator, three local residents, and three pilgrims. The findings show that the Hindu-Javanese architectural elements of the Kudus Minaret have been interpreted in the literature as forms of acculturation that integrate local symbols into an Islamic framework. The findings also show that the teachings of Sunan Kudus, particularly the prohibition against slaughtering cattle, continue to serve as a moral reference for promoting tolerance and mutual respect among religious communities. However, interpretations of the Kudus Minaret’s symbolism vary and are not uniformly understood in social life. These findings contribute to the study of Javanese Islam by positioning religious artifacts as spaces of social interpretation. The originality of this study lies in its integration of architectural, theological, and contemporary social-experiential dimensions in interpreting the Kudus Minaret.
How Religion Becomes Public: Identity, Authority, Governance, and Cultural Memory Busro Busro
Religious: Jurnal Studi Agama-Agama dan Lintas Budaya Vol. 10 No. 2 (2026)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15575/rjsalb.v10i2.59905

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This editorial asks a central question for contemporary Religious Studies: How does religion become public? Moving beyond approaches that locate religion primarily in belief, doctrine, or formal institutions, it examines how religious meanings acquire visibility, authority, political consequence, and durability in public life. Using a comparative interpretive reading of the seven research articles in this issue, this editorial identifies four interconnected processes. First, religion becomes visible through collective performance, identity-making, institutional habituation, and social recognition. Second, it becomes authoritative through institutional formation, expertise, legal interpretation, ritual legitimation, and boundary-making. Third, religion becomes politically consequential when religious identities, claims, and authorities are connected to institutions and networks that organize governance, citizenship, representation, resources, security, and power. Fourth, religion becomes publicly durable through cultural memory, ritual repetition, sacred sound, architecture, materiality, and other forms of mediation. Read together, these processes show that religion does not enter public life as an autonomous or self-contained force. Its public effects emerge through historically situated configurations of actors, institutions, practices, networks, media, materials, and memories. The editorial, therefore, proposes understanding religion as a relational and mediated public force and cautions against reducing it to belief, institution, identity, or a singular cause of political and social outcomes. It concludes by advancing a research agenda attentive to comparative and multi-sited analysis, internal diversity, minority voices, migration, political economy, digital mediation, platforms, algorithms, networked publics, and artificial intelligence as emerging infrastructures through which religion becomes visible, authoritative, contested, politically consequential, and publicly durable.

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