Drawing the Boundaries of Non-Catholic Religions in Argentina and Brazil: Conversion to Islam and the Return to Orthodox Judaism (Teshuva)

Siebzehner, Batia; Senkman, Leonardo

doi:10.1007/s41603-019-00069-z

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“…So that the shift to the objective of Islamic education generates not only workers but also individuals who can compete and develop their prospects (job opportunities) based on being innovative, creative, with character, and with an entrepreneurial spirit. So that it has a direct impact on the welfare, progress, and independence of the nation's economy (Siebzehner & Senkman, 2019).…”

Section: The Concept Of Practice In Islamic Education In the 40 Eramentioning

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Transformation of Islamic Religious Education in the Revolution 4.0 Era

Randa¹,

Arsyam

2023

IJSOC

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Technological developments demand adjustments in various fields, including the field of education. In order to meet the educational needs of the millennial generation, it is necessary to modernize Islamic Religious Education based on character education. This study aims to see how the future challenges of Islamic Religious Education and solutions so that Islamic Religious Education can survive in Indonesia. This research is a qualitative research. This research method is a literature study with data obtained from research results and previous studies that are still relevant to the research content. The results of this study then found a need for transformation in Islamic religious education to face future challenges. This transformation is in the form of changes in the face and curriculum of Islamic Religious Education. The forms of this transformation include the improvement of the applicable regulations; Future-oriented education; Curriculum review and improvement; Madrasa Management Quality Improvement; Increasing Madrasah Leadership Capacity and Capability; Teacher Competency Improvement; Community involvement in developing Madrasas; Digitalization of academic, administrative, and learning services.

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Section: The Concept Of Practice In Islamic Education In the 40 Eramentioning

confidence: 99%

Transformation of Islamic Religious Education in the Revolution 4.0 Era

Randa¹,

Arsyam

2023

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“…Other religious leaders have a conversionary missionary identity, drawing on their experience with a particular religious group in one place to revitalize religious belief in another. Reviving belief, especially in the Jewish movement of baal teshuva , involves an audience not changing faiths but instead “convert[ing] to their own religion” by restoring lapsed belief and sacred observance (Davidman and Greil 1993; Siebzehner and Senkman 2019). A missionary identity also corresponds to keen interest in developing mobilized and educated communities capable of studying religious texts (Woodberry 2012).…”

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Identity, Incentives, and Religious Defense of Human Rights: Marshall Meyer and the DAIA in Argentina's Dirty War

Edwards,

Esparza

2023

Scientific Study of Religion

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Whether religious groups advance or limit human rights has been a topic of recent debate among human rights scholars. This article studies the conditions under which religious leaders advance human rights in the context of Argentina's Jewish community during the country's 1976–1983 military dictatorship. Three major influences on religious support for human rights—autonomy from a religious community's establishment, a missionary‐reformer identity, and congregational mobilization—are highlighted. Original archival research from the papers of U.S.‐born rabbi Marshall T. Meyer illustrates his defense of human rights in Argentina, contrasting his work with the inaction of a major established Jewish organization. Quantitative cross‐national analysis extends the case study findings by showing a relationship between religious institutions’ autonomy from the state and defense of human rights.

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“…The volume Islam and the Americas, edited by Khan (2015) also contains valuable case-studies but mostly concentrates on Central and North America and has a notable specialization on Caribbean communities. A recent journal issue edited by Frank Usarski (2019) about Judaism and Islam in Latin America contains recent research and a number of interesting cases, although the only contribution dealing with Argentina is a comparative perspective of conversion to orthodox Judaism and Islam, see Siebzehner and Senkman (2019a), for a version in Spanish see Siebzehner and Senkman (2019b). Studies about Sufism in Argentina are still rare.…”

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Gender Reconfigurations and Family Ideology in Abdul Rauf Felpete’s Latin American Haqqaniyya

Diaz

2022

Religions

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This article discusses the ideas about gender contained in the Enseñanzas Sufíes Para Los Tiempos Actuales, a text by Abdul Rauf Felpete, the leader of the Naqshbandiyya Haqqaniyya in Latin America, probably the largest Sufi group in the continent. I analyse these ideas against the backdrop context in which they were produced: on the one hand, a conservative Sufi Islamic frame inspired by Nazim al-Haqqani’s ideas, and on the other, an Argentinian society that was incurring profound gender-related societal changes at the time when the shaykh delivered the sermons contained in the book. This historical moment was characterised by a growing feminist and LGTBQ+ activism and the arrival of a progressive government in Argentina, which over time, positioned this Latin American country in the vanguard of gender and sexual equality rights in the Spanish speaking world. In this context, Rauf Felpete proposes a gender model inspired in a Haqqani form of Islamic conservatism as a remedy to address what he perceives as the threat of civilizational decadence brought about by these changes. I discuss Rauf Felpete’s family ideology, a set of moral norms based on gender determinism and pronatalism, articulated through two key concepts, first, domesticity, understood as a way to regulate female behaviour and, second, motherhood, viewed as a Godly ordained natural instinct. In order to put into practice these gender norms, the devout Haqqani is called to move to the countryside; rural communes are presented as the only possible way of living a pious and authentically Islamic life, a mode of living that implies profound reconfigurations of gender (and of lifestyle, more generally) for his Latin American followers.

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Drawing the Boundaries of Non-Catholic Religions in Argentina and Brazil: Conversion to Islam and the Return to Orthodox Judaism (Teshuva)

Cited by 5 publications

References 26 publications

Transformation of Islamic Religious Education in the Revolution 4.0 Era

Transformation of Islamic Religious Education in the Revolution 4.0 Era

Identity, Incentives, and Religious Defense of Human Rights: Marshall Meyer and the DAIA in Argentina's Dirty War

Gender Reconfigurations and Family Ideology in Abdul Rauf Felpete’s Latin American Haqqaniyya

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