Da’wah and Politics Among Muslim Preachers in Contemporary Indonesia
This paper discusses how politics shapes the landscape of Islamicda’wah in Indonesia. In this context, Muslim preachers use da’wah as aninstrument of politics. One of the tools used by Muslim preachers to rollpolitical influence into da’wah is through preaching on digital media. Throughqualitative s...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2021
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Intellectual discourse
Year: 2021, Volume: 29, Issue: 1, Pages: 35-52 |
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| Summary: | This paper discusses how politics shapes the landscape of Islamicda’wah in Indonesia. In this context, Muslim preachers use da’wah as aninstrument of politics. One of the tools used by Muslim preachers to rollpolitical influence into da’wah is through preaching on digital media. Throughqualitative studies based on library data, websites and social media, this papershows that Muslim preachers in contemporary Indonesia can be seen fromthe critical preaching to the existing secular government. They attempt atIslamizing the state by criticizing the secular state. This article finds that thediscourse of globalization has allowed them to get information about Islamicmovements in other countries. Second, the rise of Muslim political preachers isinfluenced by government policies towards the political, social and economicfields. Third, their preaching for political Islam is not focused on normativegoals such as the formation of an Islamic state. Instead, they focus on pragmaticgoals. Politicians also support their popularity. On the one hand, it providesthe diversity of da’wah in Indonesia, but on the other hand, it challenges theestablished political Islam model. |
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| ISSN: | 2289-5639 |
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