Ustadi Hamsah

Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta · Department of Religious Studies

span lang="EN-US">As a religious phenomenon, pilgrimages have varying orientations. The diversity of orientations is determined by the level of motivation and meaning of the symbols attached to the pilgrimage. The connection between exposure and awareness of pilgrimage becomes the basis for pilgrims to interpret deeper aspects. The problem that ari...

Disease prevention is almost always done with a modern approach through medical science or other public health sciences. This approach is the primary reference in mitigating the spread of the disease. In fact, in Indonesian society, there are local wisdoms in the traditions of each ethnic group in tackling the spread of disease, for example, the Ja...

One of the big questions frequently asked by Senior High School Students who were interested in studying Religious Studies is about the career opportunity of the department’s alumni. Unlike other applied sciences that have a clear path of the alumni’s career, religious studies seem to vague in providing jobs for its alumni due to its pure/basic sci...

Islam has been known as a religion of Rahmatn lil’alamiin which guarantees inclusion and maintains a treatise on all humanity. However, the interpretation of universality of Islam does not meet a common understanding even though within Muslim community itself. Those diverse interpretations have resulted in how the universality of Islam has been exp...

This article aims to see the traditions associated with the existence of the Absolute which will give birth to a unique and distinctive ritual system in the ritual of ruwatan dreadlocks in Dieng. Perception of myths and cultural phenomena with a sublimated perspective and is an innovation for the central tradition in the Ngayogyokarto Hadiningrat P...

This article aims to explain the case of female college students who use the veil in the college campus area, and deal with the prohibition of the college leadership. The study uses qualitative methods, conducted in 2018 at several state Islamic universities (UIN) in the regions of Java, Sumatra, Kalimantan and Sulawesi. The data source comes from...

Kajian mengenai hubungan antar agama merupakan kajian yang terus akan menjadi topik yang strategis. Hal ini disebabkan oleh karena fenomena agama merupakan sesuatu yang selalu lekat dengan dinamika kehidupan manusia kapan pun dan di mana pun. Kemudian, persoalan agama juga merupakan sesuatu yang menyangkut kesadaran dan penghayatan emosional manusi...

Identity is the basic principle of the society. The search for identity and effort to build and defend identity is the fundamental struggle for society. Theoretically, the prosperous society depends on the strength of its identity. The society can achieve the social advancement, extraordinary ethos, and creativity because of their strong identity....

A discourse of women empowerment has been understood to be based on social capital , from the existence and the role of women themselves. This article is an attempt to enrich the discourse of women empowerment based on mosque. The function and the role of mosque will be socially linked to the patterns of women’s empowerment in creating food securit...

In the context of modern science, Religious Studies is a branch of science that has been emerged in the “structure of plausibility” of Western traditions. As a scientific knowledge, Religious Studies differs from Theology and Philosophy in which scholars, like Friedrich Max Müller, applied the scientific and empirical method in their research. In t...

Religion always offers both peace and steady, but negates war and violence. In the history of human civilization, religion is present in the course of human life. Religion, in one side, serves as a cure in the hard situation of human history such as starvation, death and disaster, however, either war or violence is ironically triggered by human’s v...