Mosques, Churches, and Civic Skill Opportunities in Indonesia

This article examines the role of houses of worship as institutions where individuals acquire civic skills that can be deployed for political participation in the world's largest Muslim-majority democracy: Indonesia. Drawing on participant observation and interviews in Muslim, Protestant, and C...

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Auteur principal: Lussier, Danielle N. (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Wiley-Blackwell [2019]
Dans: Journal for the scientific study of religion
Année: 2019, Volume: 58, Numéro: 2, Pages: 415-438
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Indonesia / Religious institution / Social skills / Civil society
RelBib Classification:AD Sociologie des religions
AX Dialogue interreligieux
KBM Asie
Sujets non-standardisés:B Political Participation
B civic skills
B Islam
B houses of worship
B Indonesia
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Résumé:This article examines the role of houses of worship as institutions where individuals acquire civic skills that can be deployed for political participation in the world's largest Muslim-majority democracy: Indonesia. Drawing on participant observation and interviews in Muslim, Protestant, and Catholic religious communities in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, this article investigates three questions: (1) What opportunities exist for individuals worshipping in Indonesian churches and mosques to develop and practice civic skills as part of their religious engagement? (2) Does civic skill opportunity vary across religious denominations? and (3) What factors might explain variation across different religious settings? The study shows that mosques offer fewer prospects for their worshippers to develop civic skills than do churches. These denominational differences can be explained by a house of worship's management practices, which are shaped by its degree of autonomy, style of worship, and the relative size of the religious denomination.
ISSN:1468-5906
Contient:Enthalten in: Journal for the scientific study of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/jssr.12589