Pub Date : 2023-11-15DOI: 10.1007/s11562-023-00541-w
Sareh Larijani
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Abstract The aim of this study is to investigate factors associated with the applications of child marriage dispensation submitted to the Religious Courts during the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia, particularly in 2019–2021. The number of child marriage dispensation cases was analyzed together with other socioeconomic variables, including poverty and jobless rates, junior and senior high school completion rates, number of cerai talak (a divorce initiated by the husband) and cerai gugat (a divorce initiated by the wife) applications, number of COVID-19 positive cases, and number of deaths by COVID-19. The differences between 2021 and 2019 were analyzed using the paired t -test and repeated measures analysis of variance (ANOVA). The relationship between variables was analyzed using the Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient. Hierarchical multiple regression with the entering method was used to determine the predictors of the number of child marriage dispensation cases in the years 2019, 2020, and 2021 and the change from 2019 to 2021. New dispensation underage marriage applications in 2019, 2020, and 2021 were 24,457 ( M =843, SD =1519), 63,391 ( M = 2186, SD = 4085), and 62,167 ( M = 2144, SD = 4058), which were significantly different ( F (1.0, 28.6) = 7.63, p = .01) and positively correlated with poverty rate, jobless rate, cerai talak , cerai gugat , COVID-19 positive cases, and COVID-19 death cases. The multiple regression analysis for the change of dispensation underage marriage applications in the pandemic and before (years 2021–2019) was statistically significant, ( F (6,22) = 117.62, p < .001), which the final model was able to account for 97% of the variance in new dispensation underage marriage applications. Collaborative multi-sector works are needed to decrease the skyrocketing child marriage numbers, especially in a crisis situation like the COVID-19 pandemic.
{"title":"Factors associated with child marriage during the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia","authors":"Andrian Liem, Very Julianto, None Kamsi, Arini Haq, Raydinda Laili Shofa, None Kamilatissa’adah","doi":"10.1007/s11562-023-00545-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11562-023-00545-6","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The aim of this study is to investigate factors associated with the applications of child marriage dispensation submitted to the Religious Courts during the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia, particularly in 2019–2021. The number of child marriage dispensation cases was analyzed together with other socioeconomic variables, including poverty and jobless rates, junior and senior high school completion rates, number of cerai talak (a divorce initiated by the husband) and cerai gugat (a divorce initiated by the wife) applications, number of COVID-19 positive cases, and number of deaths by COVID-19. The differences between 2021 and 2019 were analyzed using the paired t -test and repeated measures analysis of variance (ANOVA). The relationship between variables was analyzed using the Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient. Hierarchical multiple regression with the entering method was used to determine the predictors of the number of child marriage dispensation cases in the years 2019, 2020, and 2021 and the change from 2019 to 2021. New dispensation underage marriage applications in 2019, 2020, and 2021 were 24,457 ( M =843, SD =1519), 63,391 ( M = 2186, SD = 4085), and 62,167 ( M = 2144, SD = 4058), which were significantly different ( F (1.0, 28.6) = 7.63, p = .01) and positively correlated with poverty rate, jobless rate, cerai talak , cerai gugat , COVID-19 positive cases, and COVID-19 death cases. The multiple regression analysis for the change of dispensation underage marriage applications in the pandemic and before (years 2021–2019) was statistically significant, ( F (6,22) = 117.62, p < .001), which the final model was able to account for 97% of the variance in new dispensation underage marriage applications. Collaborative multi-sector works are needed to decrease the skyrocketing child marriage numbers, especially in a crisis situation like the COVID-19 pandemic.","PeriodicalId":44785,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Islam-Dynamics of Muslim Life","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136346989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-29DOI: 10.1007/s11562-023-00539-4
Sabiha Allouche
Abstract My contribution to this special issue is non-orthodox. Far from Islamic Feminism's hermeneutics, and bearing in mind the limitations of anthropological works and representative paradigms in Orientalist critique, I take cues from postcolonial scholar Edouard Glissant’s (1990) seminal work, Poetics of Relations , notably his notions of détour , retour , and érrance , and draw on my experience in teaching gender studies in relation to the Middle East in UK higher education institutions to posit a “pedagogy of opacity” when producing knowledge on Othered bodies —in this instance, the fictive category of the “Muslim woman”. We see how a pedagogy of opacity forces home, self, and early mis/information about the other to realign and confront each other. This triadic realignment showcases the workings of home (the UK)—not of a geographically distant Islamic culture—in the manufacturing of the Muslim woman Other.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-12DOI: 10.1007/s11562-023-00538-5
Mashuq Kurt
Abstract Scholarship on political Islam has often addressed settings where Islamist movements and political parties operate as anti-colonial and oppositional entities. On the other hand, this article focuses on a less explored aspect of Islamist governmentalities in a case when Islamism becomes a part of the governing canon and rules over its Muslim others. I investigate situations where Islamist politics incorporates neo-imperial, nationalist, and colonial practices in creating a desired Muslim ummah at home and abroad. I explore marginalized critical discourses and praxes within this imagined Muslim ummah in Turkey and examine its transnational reverberations among the Kurdish and Turkish communities and mosques in Europe. In other words, I examine the dialectical relation between the formation of the Turkish Islamist canon and its non-Western critiques that comes from within and the margins through protests and critiques of Anti-capitalist Muslims in Turkey; examples of Civil Friday prayers (Sivil Cuma namazları) of the Kurdish imams; and the reconfiguration of Kurdish mosques of liberation in Europe. In doing so, I present how religious practices and discourses are instrumentalized for Islamist colonial governmentalities on the one hand but also serve as a decolonial critique to deconstruct contemporary Muslimness and open room for a plurality of Muslim perspectives excluded from the overly militarized and nationalist rhetoric espoused in Turkish Islamist discourses and practices.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-22DOI: 10.1007/s11562-023-00540-x
Muzzamel Hussain Imran
{"title":"Social distancing during COVID-19 pandemic: the perspectives of Islam regarding religious congregations","authors":"Muzzamel Hussain Imran","doi":"10.1007/s11562-023-00540-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11562-023-00540-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44785,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Islam-Dynamics of Muslim Life","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45014998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-05DOI: 10.1007/s11562-023-00537-6
M. Woodward
{"title":"Ramadan in the plague year: Indonesian Muslim responses to the onset of COVID-19","authors":"M. Woodward","doi":"10.1007/s11562-023-00537-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11562-023-00537-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44785,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Islam-Dynamics of Muslim Life","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41783472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-04DOI: 10.1007/s11562-023-00536-7
J. Selby, Rehan Sayeed
{"title":"Religious authorities in the digital age: the case of Muslims in Canada","authors":"J. Selby, Rehan Sayeed","doi":"10.1007/s11562-023-00536-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11562-023-00536-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44785,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Islam-Dynamics of Muslim Life","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47827411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-01DOI: 10.1007/s11562-023-00535-8
Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen
{"title":"Islamists, civil rights, and civility: the contribution of the brotherhood siras","authors":"Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen","doi":"10.1007/s11562-023-00535-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11562-023-00535-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44785,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Islam-Dynamics of Muslim Life","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44762391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-13DOI: 10.1007/s11562-023-00534-9
K. Mastor, M. Samuri, Fariza Md Sham, Fazilah Idris, Mohd Izhar Ariff Mohd Kashim, Peter Hopkins
{"title":"The acceptance of COVID-19 pandemic control measures during congregational prayer on Muslims’ emotional and social interaction","authors":"K. Mastor, M. Samuri, Fariza Md Sham, Fazilah Idris, Mohd Izhar Ariff Mohd Kashim, Peter Hopkins","doi":"10.1007/s11562-023-00534-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11562-023-00534-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44785,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Islam-Dynamics of Muslim Life","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49186795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}