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Teosofi: Jurnal Tasawuf dan Pemikiran Islam

Muslimah fashion models evolve at a breakneck pace, altering not only consumption but also the pe... more Muslimah fashion models evolve at a breakneck pace, altering not only consumption but also the perception of a person’s belief and piety. There are some wrangling overvalues, piety, and even the status of a Muslimah dressed in Islamic garb. The material and spiritual realms are fused in a dress symbol, which eventually leads to popular piety in everyday life. By integrating an ethical and aesthetic perspective into the material and spiritual realms, the existence and development of middle-class Muslimah clothing is an expression of an identity centered on the popularity of piety. By utilizing ethnographic methods such as interviews and observations of fashion trends and the Hijaber Mom Community in Indonesia, this article attempts to answer the question of whether fashion models should emphasize self-pity or follow current fashion trends. The article demonstrates how the religious practices of middle-class Muslimah have shifted. According to them, religious piety no longer occurs in...

Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 2021

As Indonesia’s leading Islamist party, the Prosperous Justice Party ( Partai Keadilan Sejahtera, ... more As Indonesia’s leading Islamist party, the Prosperous Justice Party ( Partai Keadilan Sejahtera, PKS) has attracted much scholarly interest, prompting debate on the extent to which the party’s inclusion in electoral politics has required it to moderate its initially strict ideological vision. In this article, we extend consideration of this “inclusion-moderation” thesis to the party’s attitudes and practices regarding women. PKS has a large and active female support base, but it emphasises that women’s political and social roles should be secondary to their primary duties in the domestic sphere. Through a close study of female PKS candidates in Indonesia’s 2019 legislative elections in East Java, we show that women members of the party are moderating the party’s anti-feminist stance. Though they do not explicitly challenge party ideology, they demonstrate significant independent agency in their campaign practices, engaging in outreach to female voters in a strongly practical rather ...

This research aims to scrutinize the meaning of religious expressed on the lifestyle of middle cl... more This research aims to scrutinize the meaning of religious expressed on the lifestyle of middle class Muslim women. It argues that religion and economy have strong connection to construct religious lifestyle of middle class Muslim women. It attempts to answer three questions. First, how do middle class Muslim women express and represent their religious lifestyle? Second, what are the background, motives and purposes of their religiosity? And third, how does their religious lifestyle look like? To answer these questions, this study uses the constructivism and applies phenomenology to interpret symbols and signs of religious lifestyle. This research found the fact that religious expression of middle class Muslim women is personal and social. They also represent a lifestyle through of economic and cultural activities. Besides the motives and purposes that are personal and economic, they tend to live such a religious lifestyle to show their identities as a middle class society among thei...

Fenomena Salafisme di Indonesia terutama pada area perkotaan menunjukkan kekhasan tersendiri. Sim... more Fenomena Salafisme di Indonesia terutama pada area perkotaan menunjukkan kekhasan tersendiri. Simbol keagamaan dan bahasa menjadi penanda perempuan salafi di kalangan kelas menengah. Pada perspektif budaya, Salafisme menjadi salah satu sebab proses reproduksi budaya yang berpengaruh pada aspek kehidupan sosial mereka, terutama pada perempuan. Berdasarkan argumen tersebut, tulisan ini akan menjelaskan bentuk reproduksi budaya mereka. Artikel ini juga menjawab pertanyaan yang lebih luas, apakah corak Salafisme yang diadopsi oleh kalangan perempuan Salafi tersebut bersifat politis atau apolitis.

Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 19th Annual International Conference on Islamic Studies, AICIS 2019, 1-4 October 2019, Jakarta, Indonesia, 2020

This article argues that Hijrah has been artificial piety which puts a person within both apoliti... more This article argues that Hijrah has been artificial piety which puts a person within both apolitical and political positions. Hijrah has been nowadays a "magical word", which attracts women's attention. The Hijaber Mom Community (HMC) has been the first female community that introduces the concept of Hijrah with special reference to urban Muslim women. Within its spiritual and moral practices, the concept of Hijrah has shifted from normative piety into the material-mode aspect through fashion. In the public sphere, the HMC has endeavored to show its identity by creating an exclusive group and utilizing social media. It shows us how the patterns of culture have moved from ethical-ideological to aesthetic-existentialist mode. Besides, the trans-national cultural process has now experienced what so-called a "vague separation" between the theological aspect and stylish fashion mode. It can be seen, among others, from the creation of a trendy shar'i salafy fashion, which appears in bright colorful models. This phenomenon confirms an argument that a woman's body has become an object of presenting aesthetic-populist matters. Employing an interdisciplinary approach and ethnographical method this study attempts to answer a question whether the wear of shar'i fashion becomes an essential condition of Hijrah in which, ethically and normatively, it explains the identity of popular piety as well as confirms women's theological inclination and their politic of identity.

Religió: Jurnal Studi Agama-agama, 2015

The movement of Salafism constitutes part of the Islamic history of fundamentalism. They call the... more The movement of Salafism constitutes part of the Islamic history of fundamentalism. They call their self as Salafis, who etymologically means “what had passed through and gone before” or “the outdistancing group”. The appearance of Global-Salafism apparently starts from the will of coming back to the past, which is the period of as-Salaf ash-S{âlih}. In the next development, it had to deal with the shifting perspective from theological nuance into political movement (Jihad-Salafism) which well issued by the appearance of phenomenon of many radical movements. Discourse about Salafism therefore is actually being pretentious after the tragedy of World Trade Center (WTC), September 11, 2001. Salafism is Islamic radical movement which attempts to modify Islamic traditional legacy. Unlike other group on Islamic movement that use religious reform within their progress, Salafism uses retrograde process as practical method. This article aims to explore at least three issues concerning with S...

ISLAMICA: Jurnal Studi Keislaman, 2017

This article discusses Islamic culture that undergoes shift in meaning as a form of expression an... more This article discusses Islamic culture that undergoes shift in meaning as a form of expression and self-representation of Middle Class Muslim Women. Basically, the religious movement of women constitutes a form of identity assertion. The Middle Class Muslim Women unconsciously exhibit new culture, although it must be admitted that not all Middle Class Muslims in Indonesia follow popular lifestyle. Instead, they demonstrate culture different from what of fundamentalist groups with their turban, cloak, and veil of a specific color. Middle Class Muslim Women create an alternative lifestyle which conforms Islamic norms, flexible, not rigid to build Islamic identity. In general, Middle Class Muslim Women in Surabaya have a relatively similar lifestyle. They tend to be rationalistic in understanding religion. They prefer, for example, more scientific materials to enrich their religious knowledge. Although they are rationalistic and follow the values of modernity, they still adhere to norm...

Teosofi: Jurnal Tasawuf dan Pemikiran Islam, 2015

This article will discuss the cultural dimension is understood in the conventional sense, ie as b... more This article will discuss the cultural dimension is understood in the conventional sense, ie as beliefs, values, and a person"s lifestyle in everyday life. In addition, this article will examine the cultural phenomenon of the modern (or even postmodern) is by some regarded as an ethical culture that reduces the value of the community. These conditions then led to the birth of fundamentalism that offer Islamic culture. But in its development, this solution has not quite accepted by the Muslim urban middle class, as assessed ancient cultures offer, traditional or even outmoded, but on the other hand they also indicate a negation of the Western culture which is considered to damage the image of Muslims. Therefore, this group tried to make a synthesis of culture with other cultures raises and offering style that still offers a more modern Islam and not obsolete.

A city, modern in culture, offers variety of happiness, pleasures that similar with the paradise ... more A city, modern in culture, offers variety of happiness, pleasures that similar with the paradise in the world as mentioned in the holy scriptures. People think that such condition commonly lead to a negative assumption referring to people religious moral ethic. In one occasion, such condition effect to the fundamental movement that offers Islamic culture. However, it does not work on a certain group of people. In one hand, those who are called as urban middle class Muslim mostly refuse any fundamental culture that have believed as ways, ancient, traditional or even a backward. On the other hand, they also reject western culture since some assess that it can harm Islamic religion internally and externally. In this regard, this article aims to describe religious patterns of middle class society which is living in the city, where chronicles of modernity have appeared with their very artificial forms. For some people, living in the city is assumed as a threatening life to weaken moralit...

Teosofi: Jurnal Tasawuf dan Pemikiran Islam

Muslimah fashion models evolve at a breakneck pace, altering not only consumption but also the pe... more Muslimah fashion models evolve at a breakneck pace, altering not only consumption but also the perception of a person’s belief and piety. There are some wrangling overvalues, piety, and even the status of a Muslimah dressed in Islamic garb. The material and spiritual realms are fused in a dress symbol, which eventually leads to popular piety in everyday life. By integrating an ethical and aesthetic perspective into the material and spiritual realms, the existence and development of middle-class Muslimah clothing is an expression of an identity centered on the popularity of piety. By utilizing ethnographic methods such as interviews and observations of fashion trends and the Hijaber Mom Community in Indonesia, this article attempts to answer the question of whether fashion models should emphasize self-pity or follow current fashion trends. The article demonstrates how the religious practices of middle-class Muslimah have shifted. According to them, religious piety no longer occurs in...

Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 2021

As Indonesia’s leading Islamist party, the Prosperous Justice Party ( Partai Keadilan Sejahtera, ... more As Indonesia’s leading Islamist party, the Prosperous Justice Party ( Partai Keadilan Sejahtera, PKS) has attracted much scholarly interest, prompting debate on the extent to which the party’s inclusion in electoral politics has required it to moderate its initially strict ideological vision. In this article, we extend consideration of this “inclusion-moderation” thesis to the party’s attitudes and practices regarding women. PKS has a large and active female support base, but it emphasises that women’s political and social roles should be secondary to their primary duties in the domestic sphere. Through a close study of female PKS candidates in Indonesia’s 2019 legislative elections in East Java, we show that women members of the party are moderating the party’s anti-feminist stance. Though they do not explicitly challenge party ideology, they demonstrate significant independent agency in their campaign practices, engaging in outreach to female voters in a strongly practical rather ...

This research aims to scrutinize the meaning of religious expressed on the lifestyle of middle cl... more This research aims to scrutinize the meaning of religious expressed on the lifestyle of middle class Muslim women. It argues that religion and economy have strong connection to construct religious lifestyle of middle class Muslim women. It attempts to answer three questions. First, how do middle class Muslim women express and represent their religious lifestyle? Second, what are the background, motives and purposes of their religiosity? And third, how does their religious lifestyle look like? To answer these questions, this study uses the constructivism and applies phenomenology to interpret symbols and signs of religious lifestyle. This research found the fact that religious expression of middle class Muslim women is personal and social. They also represent a lifestyle through of economic and cultural activities. Besides the motives and purposes that are personal and economic, they tend to live such a religious lifestyle to show their identities as a middle class society among thei...

Fenomena Salafisme di Indonesia terutama pada area perkotaan menunjukkan kekhasan tersendiri. Sim... more Fenomena Salafisme di Indonesia terutama pada area perkotaan menunjukkan kekhasan tersendiri. Simbol keagamaan dan bahasa menjadi penanda perempuan salafi di kalangan kelas menengah. Pada perspektif budaya, Salafisme menjadi salah satu sebab proses reproduksi budaya yang berpengaruh pada aspek kehidupan sosial mereka, terutama pada perempuan. Berdasarkan argumen tersebut, tulisan ini akan menjelaskan bentuk reproduksi budaya mereka. Artikel ini juga menjawab pertanyaan yang lebih luas, apakah corak Salafisme yang diadopsi oleh kalangan perempuan Salafi tersebut bersifat politis atau apolitis.

Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 19th Annual International Conference on Islamic Studies, AICIS 2019, 1-4 October 2019, Jakarta, Indonesia, 2020

This article argues that Hijrah has been artificial piety which puts a person within both apoliti... more This article argues that Hijrah has been artificial piety which puts a person within both apolitical and political positions. Hijrah has been nowadays a "magical word", which attracts women's attention. The Hijaber Mom Community (HMC) has been the first female community that introduces the concept of Hijrah with special reference to urban Muslim women. Within its spiritual and moral practices, the concept of Hijrah has shifted from normative piety into the material-mode aspect through fashion. In the public sphere, the HMC has endeavored to show its identity by creating an exclusive group and utilizing social media. It shows us how the patterns of culture have moved from ethical-ideological to aesthetic-existentialist mode. Besides, the trans-national cultural process has now experienced what so-called a "vague separation" between the theological aspect and stylish fashion mode. It can be seen, among others, from the creation of a trendy shar'i salafy fashion, which appears in bright colorful models. This phenomenon confirms an argument that a woman's body has become an object of presenting aesthetic-populist matters. Employing an interdisciplinary approach and ethnographical method this study attempts to answer a question whether the wear of shar'i fashion becomes an essential condition of Hijrah in which, ethically and normatively, it explains the identity of popular piety as well as confirms women's theological inclination and their politic of identity.

Religió: Jurnal Studi Agama-agama, 2015

The movement of Salafism constitutes part of the Islamic history of fundamentalism. They call the... more The movement of Salafism constitutes part of the Islamic history of fundamentalism. They call their self as Salafis, who etymologically means “what had passed through and gone before” or “the outdistancing group”. The appearance of Global-Salafism apparently starts from the will of coming back to the past, which is the period of as-Salaf ash-S{âlih}. In the next development, it had to deal with the shifting perspective from theological nuance into political movement (Jihad-Salafism) which well issued by the appearance of phenomenon of many radical movements. Discourse about Salafism therefore is actually being pretentious after the tragedy of World Trade Center (WTC), September 11, 2001. Salafism is Islamic radical movement which attempts to modify Islamic traditional legacy. Unlike other group on Islamic movement that use religious reform within their progress, Salafism uses retrograde process as practical method. This article aims to explore at least three issues concerning with S...

ISLAMICA: Jurnal Studi Keislaman, 2017

This article discusses Islamic culture that undergoes shift in meaning as a form of expression an... more This article discusses Islamic culture that undergoes shift in meaning as a form of expression and self-representation of Middle Class Muslim Women. Basically, the religious movement of women constitutes a form of identity assertion. The Middle Class Muslim Women unconsciously exhibit new culture, although it must be admitted that not all Middle Class Muslims in Indonesia follow popular lifestyle. Instead, they demonstrate culture different from what of fundamentalist groups with their turban, cloak, and veil of a specific color. Middle Class Muslim Women create an alternative lifestyle which conforms Islamic norms, flexible, not rigid to build Islamic identity. In general, Middle Class Muslim Women in Surabaya have a relatively similar lifestyle. They tend to be rationalistic in understanding religion. They prefer, for example, more scientific materials to enrich their religious knowledge. Although they are rationalistic and follow the values of modernity, they still adhere to norm...

Teosofi: Jurnal Tasawuf dan Pemikiran Islam, 2015

This article will discuss the cultural dimension is understood in the conventional sense, ie as b... more This article will discuss the cultural dimension is understood in the conventional sense, ie as beliefs, values, and a person"s lifestyle in everyday life. In addition, this article will examine the cultural phenomenon of the modern (or even postmodern) is by some regarded as an ethical culture that reduces the value of the community. These conditions then led to the birth of fundamentalism that offer Islamic culture. But in its development, this solution has not quite accepted by the Muslim urban middle class, as assessed ancient cultures offer, traditional or even outmoded, but on the other hand they also indicate a negation of the Western culture which is considered to damage the image of Muslims. Therefore, this group tried to make a synthesis of culture with other cultures raises and offering style that still offers a more modern Islam and not obsolete.

A city, modern in culture, offers variety of happiness, pleasures that similar with the paradise ... more A city, modern in culture, offers variety of happiness, pleasures that similar with the paradise in the world as mentioned in the holy scriptures. People think that such condition commonly lead to a negative assumption referring to people religious moral ethic. In one occasion, such condition effect to the fundamental movement that offers Islamic culture. However, it does not work on a certain group of people. In one hand, those who are called as urban middle class Muslim mostly refuse any fundamental culture that have believed as ways, ancient, traditional or even a backward. On the other hand, they also reject western culture since some assess that it can harm Islamic religion internally and externally. In this regard, this article aims to describe religious patterns of middle class society which is living in the city, where chronicles of modernity have appeared with their very artificial forms. For some people, living in the city is assumed as a threatening life to weaken moralit...