Islam in the Echo Chamber: Ahmadiyya and Shi’a Identities in Indonesian and Malaysian Online Discourses

Schäfer, Saskia

doi:10.1163/22142312-12340087

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“…In this incident, three or more members of the Ahmadiya sect were killed in front of policemen. Some observers considered that there was a link between the anti-Ahmadiya fatwa (religious edict) released by MUI (Indonesian Islamic Scholar Council) and the violence, even if both the MUI and some Ahmadiya followers doubt this and hard proof could not be obtained (Schäfer 2018). Resistance against the Shi'a sect has also existed since long before Indonesian Independence, despite the fact that some Shi'a traditions were taught by few popular Muslim saints in Java, notably by Sunan Kalijaga and his followers (Sunyoto 1987).…”

Section: Overview Of Rising Conservatism and Religious Intolerance In Indonesiamentioning

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On Socio-Economic Predictors of Religious Intolerance: Evidence from a Large-Scale Longitudinal Survey in the Largest Muslim Democracy

2019

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Motivated by increasing religious intolerance, we study the socio-economic covariates of individual-level religious intolerance in Indonesia, the largest Muslim democracy in the world. We use panel data from 2007 and 2014 of more than 20,000 adult individuals (representing 83% of the population) and apply fixed-effect regression analysis to identify relevant socio-economic characteristics that are highly associated with religious intolerance at the individual level. We utilize survey questions on willingness to accept someone with different faith living in the same village, living in the same neighborhood, renting a house, marrying relatives or children, and building a place of worship in the neighborhood as our measures of religious intolerance. We find that higher individual income and educational attainment are positively correlated with the tolerance level. At the same time, a higher level of self-declared religiosity is negatively correlated with a tolerant attitude. For location-specific characteristics, higher income inequality and extent of poverty in the location where an individual resides are associated with a higher level of religious intolerance. These patterns are generally robust across different measures of religious intolerance, although there is heterogeneity in the magnitudes of the correlations, where these covariates have the smallest correlations with the willingness to accept interfaith marriage in the family.

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Section: Overview Of Rising Conservatism and Religious Intolerance In Indonesiamentioning

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On Socio-Economic Predictors of Religious Intolerance: Evidence from a Large-Scale Longitudinal Survey in the Largest Muslim Democracy

2019

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“…Di antaranya adalah ketika agama dapat menjadi landasan akan disinformasi yang tidak hanya mengarahkan pada situasi kecapakan wacana yang keliru (Grimwood, 2021;Maulana, Majid, dkk., 2021;Rudan, 2021), namun juga bahkan segragasi dan intoleransi antar umat beragama (Al-Zaman, 2019. Fenomena Echo Chamber adalah salah sebuah gambaran valid pengguna dunia maya yang hanya mencari dan mendengarkan gagasan pribadinya saja tanpa mengindahkan perspektif keagamaan orang lain, sehingga berkemungkinan untuk menyemai ide-ide intoleransi dan radikalisme yang mengganggu harmoni antar agama (Maulana, Awaludin, dkk., 2021;Schäfer, 2018;Yahya, 2019;Yahya & Mahmudah, 2019).…”

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Agama Digital (Digital Religion) dan Relevansinya Terhadap Studi Agama Interdisipliner: Sebuah Tinjauan Literatur

Maulana

2022

At-Tafkir

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This article aimed to offer another side of the discussion concerning digital religion commonly understood as an interaction between technological users and religious phenomena on the screen or electronic devices, Digital Religion served as an interdisciplinary subject inviting multiple perspectives to reveal a more profound and comprehensive view regarding religious communities, expressions, and symbols in the digital world. This research was conducted as a literature review combining and analyzing massive lists of reputable references related to the topic. In addition, this research also utilized a content analysis method to summarize crucial ideas and information needed by the study. This paper concluded that Digital Religion emphasized the interaction between technology users and religious expressions in the digital world assisted by internet access. These interactions gave birth to new religious views, systems, and symbols different from conventional religious discourse. Moreover, it is apparent that Digital Religion was able to attract other branches of science to work together responding to issues, realizing it as an interdisciplinary study.

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“…Islamic digital realms in Southeast Asia have evolved into such publics of debate, doubt, and offense where phenomena of discontent can be observed (see e.g. Schäfer 2018). Spoken and written words on today's social media platforms are both prone to affect Islamic sensibilities, not only if they comprise theological debate but also if they touch on issues of personal piety and the online representation of pious selves.…”

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Ambivalence, Discontent, and Divides in Southeast Asia's Islamic Digital Realms: An Introduction

Sláma

Hoesterey

2021

CyberOrient

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This introductory article to the special issue Ambivalence, Discontent, and Divides in Southeast Asia's Islamic Digital Realms discusses the latest transformations in the field of Islam in Southeast Asia with a particular focus on digital media. It introduces the three key themes – ambivalence, discontent, divides – through which the special issue approaches contemporary socioreligious phenomena in Islamic Southeast Asia as they find their expressions online, often in close relation with offline dynamics. This approach allows this special issue to uncover the possibilities and predicaments afforded by engagement with digital and social media across Islamic Southeast Asia, understanding the latter as the locus of complex contestations, unanticipated affect, and poignant uncertainty. This introduction points to such un‐ or underexplored phenomena that considerably add to our understanding of religious and sociopolitical developments in contemporary Southeast Asia. The articles are introduced by highlighting how they contribute to our understanding of a broad mosaic of Islamic digital realms and how the latter have become sites of ambivalence, discontent, and divides. From Sufis to Salafis, masculinities to queer identities, and serious theologies to ludic critique, the case studies of this special issue devote special attention to the ambiguity, uneasiness, and division that marks Muslim engagement with digital domains across Southeast Asia.

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Islam in the Echo Chamber: Ahmadiyya and Shi’a Identities in Indonesian and Malaysian Online Discourses

Cited by 7 publications

References 51 publications

On Socio-Economic Predictors of Religious Intolerance: Evidence from a Large-Scale Longitudinal Survey in the Largest Muslim Democracy

On Socio-Economic Predictors of Religious Intolerance: Evidence from a Large-Scale Longitudinal Survey in the Largest Muslim Democracy

Agama Digital (Digital Religion) dan Relevansinya Terhadap Studi Agama Interdisipliner: Sebuah Tinjauan Literatur

Ambivalence, Discontent, and Divides in Southeast Asia's Islamic Digital Realms: An Introduction

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