Transformation of Religious Extension during the Covid-19 Pandemic Campaigning for Religious Moderation in Society

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10.2991/assehr.k.220408.093How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Transformation of Religious Extension; Religious Moderation; Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

The purpose of this research is: (1) Describing the transformation of religious extension before and after social distancing due to the enactment of the new normal; (2) Explaining what religious extension campaigns for to the community during the Covid 19 pandemic; (3) Knowing the forms of methods and media that are widely carried out by Religious Extensionists in campaigning for religious moderation in the community; and (4) Explain the supporting factors and inhibitory factors encountered by Religious Extensionists in campaigning for religious moderation in the community. This research is descriptive-analytical. This study involved 34 sources from the Extension Office at the Ministry of Religious Affairs of the District / City, Pokjaluh. (Extension Working Group), and Islamic Extension in Bandung city and Bogor regency. Research locus is in Bandung city and Bogor regency in 2021. The data obtained is then analyzed using techniques put forward by Miles and Huberman, namely data reduction (sorting, attention-grabbing), presentation (display) of data, and withdrawal of conclusions. The study concluded that: (1) Religious Extension is a role transformation and a transformation of performance from offline to online. In addition, there is also a transformation of material needs and media use; (2) Religious Extension conveys the material to the public during the pandemic, namely about daily life, democracy, and moderation; (3) In the period before the pandemic extension, workers delivered material face-to-face while after the pandemic extension conveyed material through social media; and (4) Supporting and inhibiting factors include four things, namely; factors of religious attachment (number and quality of personal and digital competence), community factors of service users (concern for health protocols, readiness to follow spiritual counselling through social media, supporting characteristics), environmental carrying capacity factors (pandemic conditions, built area, geographical and budgetary conditions) and technological factors (effectiveness of social media, availability of devices and their supporters).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Reslawati Reslawati
AU  - M. Taufik Hidayatulloh
AU  - Dwi Purwoko
AU  - Ahsanul Khalikin
AU  - Warnis Warnis
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/04/27
TI  - Transformation of Religious Extension during the Covid-19 Pandemic Campaigning for Religious Moderation in Society
BT  - Proceedings of the 9th Asbam International Conference (Archeology, History, & Culture In The Nature of Malay) (ASBAM 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 664
EP  - 674
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220408.093
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220408.093
ID  - Reslawati2022
ER  -