Religious performance in Malang, Indonesia: Linguistic landscape on worship sign

The name of the worship place is closely related to history, ideology, power, and society. Naming a worship place is a symbol of how power is represented through text in public spaces. This study aims to look at an environmental print by investigating the performance of religions in Malang, Indonesia, through the use of language in the names of worship places. Data was taken through photography totaling 157 names of worship places including mosques, churches, Buddhist temples, Hindu temples, and Chinese temples. Linguistic landscape analysis was carried out to investigate information and symbolic functions. The results show that writing the name of a place of worship involves seven languages, namely Bahasa Indonesia, Arabic, English, Javanese, Sanskrit, Dutch, and Chinese. Monolingual, bilingual, and multilingual forms emerge with Bahasa Indonesia's involvement in all patterns. These findings indicate that Bahasa Indonesia has a high level of language competence in society, in addition to language policy, power, and prestige. Bahasa Indonesian is used in all places of worship. It is also found in English. These two languages combine to support the existence of religious ideologies in the region. Other languages are only able to characterize religious and ethnic identities.

STUDI EMPIRIS : PERAN IKLIM KERJA KREATIF DAN KESESUAIN TUJUAN TERHADAP PEMENUHAN KONTRAK PSIKOLOGIS SERTA DAMPAKNYA PADA KINERJA RELIGIUS

The creation of a positive climate must be carried out by an organization to support the development of the creativity of people who are members of the organization. The creation of a climate that supports creativity, especially in improving the performance of individuals and organizations / companies, of course, must bring about a match between goals between individuals and organizations. The organization must also pay attention to the rights of its members in addition to demanding full obligations. Fulfillment and violation of psychological contracts will have an impact on individual performance in general where the majority of Indonesia's population has a religious side that is still high. Religious performance is a hope and belief that what we do has a religious value. Thus the organization must be able to build and provide complete facilities in supporting the religious side of the members of the organization. The focus of this writing is how the creative work climate and goal congruence for the fulfillment of psychological contracts and their impact on religious performance. This writing uses relevant literature studies. This research is expected to be empirical study capable of presenting a picture of the creative work climate and Goal Congruence able to give effect to the fulfillment of psychological contracts and their impact on improving the performance of Religious employees.

Solidaritas Sosial di Era Post-Modern: Sakralitas Komunitas Salawatan Jaljalut Indonesia

This study attempts to elucidate the emergence of forms of Islamic spirituality in Indonesian Islam identified as the Jaljalut community of Salawatan. This group has proliferated on Java in the last two decades both in urban and rural areas. This group also has attracted followers from a wide social base to their practices, hence contributing significantly to the improvement of religious performance and social solidarity among Indonesian Muslims. By using Durkheim’s approach of social solidarity and phenominological approach, this paper presents how religious community functions in the integration process, especially in the face of modernity. Social solidarity is the main theme discussed by Durkheim as a moral source for forming social order in society. Conclusions indicated from this study include the proposition that religious community can contribute to integration which is called by Durkheim a collective conscience and collective representations.Keywords: social solidarity, Jaljalut community, modernity. Artikel ini menjelaskan munculnya bentuk spritualitas Islam di Indonesia yang direpresentasikan oleh komunitas salawatan Jaljalut. Komunitas ini tumbuh dan berkembang di Jawa baik di daerah perkotaan maupun pedesaan. Komunitas ini diikuti oleh pelbagai kelompok kelas sosial yang kemudian berkontibusi besar dalam pembentukan karakter keberagamaan serta penguatan solidaritas sosial. Dengan menggunakan teori Durkheim tentang solidaritas sosial dan pendekatan fenomenologis, artikel ini mendedah bagaimana komunitas keagamaan salawatan Jaljalut di tengah tantangan modernitas dapat berkontribusi signifikan dalam membentuk kohesi sosial di tengah masyarakat. Solidaritas sosial menjadi tema utama yang dikaji oleh Durkheim sebagai sumber moral untuk membentuk tatanan sosial di masyarakat. Studi ini menegaskan bahwa komunitas keagamaan yang lahir dari solidaritas mekanis dapat berkontribusi pada penguatan integrasi yang disebut oleh Durkheim sebagai nurani kolektif dan representasi kolektif.Kata kunci: solidaritas sosial, komunitas Jaljalut, modernitas.

Andrea Pozzo and the Jesuit “Theatres” of the Seventeenth Century

Considered within the context of Jesuit theatre and liturgy, and within the broader culture of spectacle and ritual in the era of Counter-Reform, the works of art and architecture commissioned by the Jesuits in the seventeenth century can be read as “theatres” of religious performance. This concept is given an ideal case study in the work of Jesuit artist Andrea Pozzo (1642–1709). In this essay I present Pozzo’s work within the context of ritual and prayer for which it was produced, focusing on two of his religious scenographies and two of his lesser-known painting projects. As I consider their use of allegory, emblems and symbols, visual narratives, spatial illusions, and architecture, I argue that both the scenographies and the permanent church decorations achieve persuasion through the engagement of the observer as a performer in a ritual involving both internal and external performance.

THE CORRELATION BETWEEN RELIGIOUS PRACTICE, ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE AND ENGLISH COMPETENCE OF THE ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS FACULTY STUDENTS OF MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY PALEMBANG

English competence is always needed in this globalization era. TOEFL test is always used due to measure students’ ability in understanding English spoken and written. Grade Point Average (GPA) and religious performance practice are suspected whether or not influence students English language competence. In this paper, religious practice and Grade Point Average (GPA) correlated to English language competence at the economic and business students’ faculty of Muhammadiyah University Palembang. Recent research demonstrated a positive correlation between religious practice and academic performance to English competence. Students’ religiosity was measured using Centrality of Religiosity Scale (CRS) ready-made questionnaire, while academic performance was measured by Grade Point Average (GPA) and TOEFL test was used to determine students’ English language competence. The statistical analysis revealed that there was no significant correlation between students’ religious performance to English language competence. Meanwhile, Grade Point Average showed positive correlation to English language competence.

Hinglaj Devi

The shrine of the Goddess Hinglaj is located in the desert of Balochistan, Pakistan, about 215 kilometers west of the city of Karachi. Notwithstanding its ancient Hindu and Muslim history, the establishment of an annual festival at Hinglaj took place only recently, “invented” in the mid-1980s. Only after the construction of the Makran Coastal Highway (MCH), a road that now—coincidentally—connects the formerly distant desert shrine with urban Pakistan, was the increasingly confident minority Hindu community able to claim Hinglaj as their main religious center, a site for undisturbed religious performance and expression. This book describes the dynamics that emerged after this dislocation, examining the political and cultural influences at work at the Hinglaj temple, and tracks this remote desert shrine’s rapid ascent to its current status as the most influential Hindu pilgrimage site in Pakistan. Primary among these dynamics is the influence that the temple organization, the Hinglaj Sheva Mandali (HSM), has exerted and continues to exert on the holy site’s ascent to prominence. The book demonstrates how the HSM’s members from the Lohana community (a Sindhi merchant caste) utilize discourses of rationality and enlightenment to propagate and solidify their own parochial beliefs and rituals at the shrine, holding them out as the only “proper” interpretation of the tradition for the Goddess’s worship. The book deals with the overarching theme of the Pakistani-Hindu community’s beliefs and practices at their largest place of worship in the Islamic Republic today.