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Erschienen in: Contemporary Islam 2/2019

24.09.2018

Digitalizing Islamic lectures: Islamic apps and religious engagement in contemporary Indonesia

verfasst von: Moch Fakhruroji

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Abstract

Contemporary mobile phone technology has brought millions of apps into the pockets of users, including a wide variety oriented towards religious concerns. Such apps appear to be creating new forms of religious engagement, a process that is particularly visible within Indonesia. This paper will examine the so-called ‘Aa Gym’ app, one of the Islamic apps launched by the Indonesian popular preacher, Abdullah Gymnastiar, an early adopter of mobile technology for religious purposes. The paper argues that the Aa Gym app illustrates how the mediatization of religion inherent in mobile technologies is reshaping the way that Indonesians engage with Islamic teachings. First, ‘Aa Gym’ app has created new forms of religious engagement through an extension of religious interaction and communication in a media landscape. Second, ‘Aa Gym’ app has described that media has become a new site for the discovery of religious meanings as a result of the spread of religious authority. Thirdly, ‘Aa Gym’ app is a kind of embodiment of accommodation of media logic performed by the religious figure in order to remain accessible to the public which is increasingly media-saturated.

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All interviews were conducted in Bahasa Indonesia which is also the first language of the author.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Digitalizing Islamic lectures: Islamic apps and religious engagement in contemporary Indonesia
verfasst von
Moch Fakhruroji
Publikationsdatum
24.09.2018
Verlag
Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in
Contemporary Islam / Ausgabe 2/2019
Print ISSN: 1872-0218
Elektronische ISSN: 1872-0226
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11562-018-0427-9

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