Workshop Description:

This course will elaborate various and different ways of being Muslim in a globalised and secularised world without necessarily being secular. Globalisation has significantly shaped our daily life, including our religious practices and sensibilities. The idea of being a Muslim has stimulated an animated discussion among scholars who have paid their attention to examining Muslims' attempts and efforts to grapple with the existential uncertainty and aspiration in their daily life by referring to Islam as the primary source of reference. Studies on Muslim cultures and societies have drawn their attention to investigate how Muslims produce themselves as pious and modern Muslims. For instance, Dale Eickelman and James Piscatori’s workMuslim Politicshas marked a new perspective in elaborating Islam and modernity in a changing social and cultural context of Muslim countries. They claim that Muslims in many parts of Muslim countries have experienced modernity through what they call ‘objectification of religion'.

Sociologically, Nіlüfer Göle (2002) demonstrates that the notion of being a modern Muslim in broader academic debates is related to the changing phases of Islamism. She reveals that the first phase started at the end of the 1970s and it reached its peak with the Iranian Islamic revolution in 1979. This phase of Islamism is characterised by mass mobilisation, Islamic militancy, a quest for an Islamic collective identity, and the implementation of political and religious rule. Meanwhile, the second phase of Islamism is characterised by the blending of the actors of Islamism into modern urban spaces, using global communication networks, engaging in public debates, following consumption patterns, learning market rules and entering into secular time.

Requirements:

This workshop is intended for Master students 3rdsemester of Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies (IIS) who take the course :Contemporary Islam and Globalisationand Doctoral Programs first semester of School of Graduate Studies UIN Sunan Kalijaga, who take the course:Religion and Global Issues

Lecturer:

Dr. Jan Ali (University of Western Sydney)

Dr. Ahmad Muttaqien (School of Graduate Studies, UIN Sunan Kalijaga)

Dr. Najib Kailani (Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies, School of Graduate Studies, UIN Sunan Kalijaga)

Date:

11-14thSeptember, 2023

Quota:

25 Seats Only

Regristration:

https://forms.gle/x1Fy6mYNEQbFVL3a9

For more information:

Master Program +62 897-0290-090

Doctoral Program +62 857-2917-0995