Woman Empowerment Through Mosque-Piety Activities

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201113.019How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Women’s empowerment, mosque, religious activities, power relations

Abstract

This paper intends to explore religious activities in Taqwa Mosque, Menggala, Tulang Bawang Regency, the province of Lampung, and how do these activities help to empower women members of the mosque. In fact, the religious activities in Taqwa mosque are dominated by male worshipers, while women almost never involve or being involved even in congregational prayer in the mosque. Although there is no emphasis or argument that requires a woman to pray at the mosque, this does not mean there was no space for women to conduct other religious activity, such Islamic studies, teaching in TPA (Al-Quran learning center) and the other religious matters. Because of this reason, this article will analyze the issues of woman empowerment in this mosque, by using Foucault’s theory of power relation. To do so, this study will pay ample attention to the discourse that exist in the community of this mosque, and provides an understanding which could be used as a knowledge. This research concludes that it the role and function of the mosque are not understood properly by members of the mosque, so that there is refraction in understanding the function of the mosque.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Rini Setiawati
AU  - Sulistiawati
AU  - Afif Umi Kalsum
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/11/13
TI  - Woman Empowerment Through Mosque-Piety Activities
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st Raden Intan International Conference on Muslim Societies and Social Sciences (RIICMuSSS 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 99
EP  - 104
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201113.019
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201113.019
ID  - Setiawati2020
ER  -