Developing Faith and Character to Develop the Nation: Perspectives from an Elite Indonesian Catholic School

Larson, Erica M.

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“…While many studies on religious attitudes toward digital media have focused on discourses within one particular religious community (with the exception of Ferguson et al (2021)), this article focuses on discourses circulating within educational communities primarily comprised of Protestant, Muslim, and Catholic students and educators. In Indonesia, in public as well as private religious educational settings, religion is typically viewed as a public good, and students are encouraged to become more pious in their own religious traditions as a way of becoming good individuals and upright citizens (Larson, 2018). Here, taking an approach which considers both Christian-and Muslim-influenced discourses about smartphones in educational settings is particularly instructive in demonstrating the similarities among religious communities and the way in which smartphones are ambiguously viewed as both potentially morally edifying and problematic for youth in Indonesia.…”

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Smartphones and the education of religious youth in Indonesia: Highway to hell or path of righteousness?

Larson

2023

Social Compass

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Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in secondary schools in Manado, Indonesia, this article examines digital infrastructures and their accompanying (im)moral potentialities in the development of Christian and Muslim youth as evaluated by educators. On the one hand, smartphones are portrayed as portals to a globalizing world in which youth might succumb to negative influences (with a particular anxiety surrounding pornography) based on their perceived inchoate moral development and insufficiently strong religious foundation. On the other hand, these teachers and administrators recognize the potential that smartphones have to be used for deepening spiritual engagement, connection, and proselytization. This particular case study offers insights into the ways in which institutions charged with religious and moral development of youth seek to leverage rather than categorically reject mainstream culture, navigating the globalizing influences of the secular world toward the possibility of attaining a greater good.

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Smartphones and the education of religious youth in Indonesia: Highway to hell or path of righteousness?

Larson

2023

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Religiosity, ethics education and incorruptibility of accounting students

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Betaken

2024

Cogent Business & Management

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Learning to navigate the ethics of boundaries: schools, youth, and inter‐religious relationships in Manado, Indonesia

Larson

2022

Royal Anthropological Inst

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Contributing to recent debates on ethical self‐making, this article considers how Christian and Muslim youth in Manado, Indonesia, draw on various moral frameworks, and consequentially on both individual and community‐oriented modes of subjectivity in navigating inter‐religious encounters. The discussion foregrounds attitudes towards and normative expectations regarding inter‐religious marriage as an important lens through which the shifting salience of inter‐religious boundaries becomes apparent. Public discourses emphasize two contradictory frameworks for coexistence, projecting inter‐religious marriage alternatively as the foundation for coexistence and as a major social threat. A focus on high schools demonstrates how public ethical debates are channelled through institutions and relate to the ways that youth grapple with coexisting ethical frameworks in a religiously plural society. In addition, the article makes a case for investigating the role of institutions in moral learning, taking into account the normative work accomplished in schools as teachers and students deliberate about and circulate ethical frameworks.

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Developing Faith and Character to Develop the Nation: Perspectives from an Elite Indonesian Catholic School

Cited by 3 publications

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Smartphones and the education of religious youth in Indonesia: Highway to hell or path of righteousness?

Smartphones and the education of religious youth in Indonesia: Highway to hell or path of righteousness?

Religiosity, ethics education and incorruptibility of accounting students

Learning to navigate the ethics of boundaries: schools, youth, and inter‐religious relationships in Manado, Indonesia

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