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The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) has issued an illegitimate fatwa against smoking in mosques because it endangers the health of worshippers and interferes with the comfort of worshippers. This study aims to investigate smoking behaviour in mosques and violations of fatwas from ulama and governor regulations. This study follows a cross-sectional design conducted by interviewing 531 Muslims who have prayed in the mosque for the last 14 days and observed the compliance of the mosque in implementing a smoke-free policy in 315 mosques. Frequency distribution and cross-tabulation were carried out using JASP 16 software using cross-tabulation. The results of this study indicate that the implementation of the smoke-free policy for mosques in Medan has been violated many times (57.8%), especially the violation regarding smoking in mosques (32.1%); cigarette butts were still found in the yard of the mosque (44.1%). Violations of the policy of fatwa smoke-free areas occurred in public mosques (61%) and muhammadiyah mosques (46.5%). Smoking behaviour in mosques was seen in the last 2 weeks, namely smoking behaviour carried out by worshippers (57.6%), smoking behaviour carried out by mosque administrators (39.2%), smoking behaviour carried out by community leaders in mosques (19.4%) and smoking behaviour that ulemas carried out in mosques (14.3%). Worshippers must comply with the rules against smoking in mosques because it can endanger the health of other worshippers. Cigarette smoke in the mosque will make other worshippers uncomfortable to worship so that it can damage the solemnity of the congregation to worship in the mosque.

An effective method to develop the activities of nonresidents in the area of the Tenkawa shrine is to offer extraordinary experiences in which people can participate casually through “ko” to enhance religious culture based on the shrine's history. This can also increase the sustainability of the area where the shrine is located, as the charm of the shrine has attracted several households, which have moved into the village in recent years. Revitalization of the shrine through building relationships outside and inside the parishioner area

At its best, all Christian worship is led by the Holy Spirit. But is there a distinctive theology of Pentecostal worship? The Pentecostal church or the renewal movement is among the fastest-growing parts of the body of Christ around the world, which makes understanding its theology and practice critical for the future of the church. In this volume in IVP Academic's Dynamics of Christian Worship (DCW) series, theologian Steven Félix-Jäger offers a theology of renewal worship, including its biblical foundations, how its global nature is expressed in particular localities, and how charismatic worship distinctively shapes the community of faith. With his guidance, the whole church might understand better what it means to pray, \"Come, Holy Spirit!\" The Dynamics of Christian Worship series draws from a wide range of worshiping contexts and denominational backgrounds to unpack the many dynamics of Christian worship—including prayer, reading the Bible, preaching, baptism, the Lord's Supper, music, visual art, architecture, and more—to deepen both the theology and practice of Christian worship for the life of the church.

In The Spirit of Praise, Monique Ingalls and Amos Yong bring together a multidisciplinary, scholarly exploration of music and worship in global pentecostal-charismatic Christianity at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The Spirit of Praise contends that gaining a full understanding of this influential religious movement requires close listening to its songs and careful attention to its patterns of worship. The essays in this volume place ethnomusicological, theological, historical, and sociological perspectives into dialogue. By engaging with these disciplines and exploring themes of interconnection, interface, and identity within musical and ritual practices, the essays illuminate larger social processes such as globalization, sacralization, and secularization, as well as the role of religion in social and cultural change. Aside from the editors, the contributors are Peter Althouse, Will Boone, Mark Evans, Ryan R. Gladwin, Birgitta J. Johnson, Jean Ngoya Kidula, Miranda Klaver, Andrew Mall, Kimberly Jenkins Marshall, Andrew M. McCoy, Martijn Oosterbaan, Dave Perkins, Wen Reagan, Tanya Riches, Michael Webb, and Michael Wilkinson.

In \"Individuals and Materials in the Greco-Roman Cults of Isis\" Valentino Gasparini and Richard Veymiers present a collection of reflections on the individuals and groups which animated one of Antiquity’s most dynamic, significant and popular religious phenomena: the reception of the cults of Isis and other Egyptian gods throughout the Hellenistic and Roman worlds. These communities, whose members seem to share the same religious identity, for a long time have been studied in a monolithic way through the prism of the Cumontian category of the “Oriental religions”. The 26 contributions of this book, divided into three sections devoted to the “agents”, their “images” and their “practices”, shed new light on this religious movement that appears much more heterogeneous and colorful than previously recognized.

A theological framework for the liturgical arts rooted in John Calvin Both detractors and supporters of John Calvin have deemed him an enemy of the physical body, a pessimist toward creation, and a negative influence on the liturgical arts.But, says W.David O.Taylor, that only tells half of the story.

The religion of the traditionalists in this area of the country gave birth to the art of shrine painting. They make use of concrete elements such as images, colours, patterns and symbols in the religious beautification of the shrines meant to house the spirits, deities and the ancestors. Custodians and knowledgeable people as well as the adherents of various traditional religions were interviewed to compare their submissions regarding paintings used to meet the feelings of confidence and assurance of the deities. The shrine paintings in Yoruba speaking areas conform to certain universal pattern elements in the act of honouring, soothing and cooling the gods and likewise influence their decisions to favour man in his incessant struggle on earth. It is worthy of note to add that both the painters and their clients (worshippers) have to spiritually contribute to the iconographic and aesthetic features of the painting. These eventually reflect in worship value, which draws the worshippers closer to their deities that are deemed to have their comfort in the decorated shrines. For this reason, there is an urgent need to document this aspect of Yoruba conceptual association with the universe. Lastly, the goal of this paper is to highlight and to bring to the fore the salient, cultural values embedded in Yoruba shrine painting. In a like vein, this paper intends to serve an aspect of the most radiant cultural atmosphere in human religious history, thereby proclaiming it as a veritable source for tourism in the study areas.

The current research develops an interpretative proposal based on Saint Miguel Archangel, venerated figure by the Religious Celebration done by the Original Caciques (mapuches) from Calbuco (Chile) and its cultural interpretation produced by the popular religious expression. This work is based on a theorical-critical and empirical frame, given by Miquel Rodrigo Alsina's intercultural communication contribution and his social semiotic model.

Towards Liturgies that Reconcile reflects upon Christian worship as it is shaped, and mis-shaped, by human prejudice, specifically by racism. African Americans and European Americans have lived together for 400 years on the continent of North America, but they have done so as slave and master, outsider and insider, oppressed and oppressor. Scott Haldeman traces the development of Protestant worship among whites and blacks, showing that the following exist in tension: African American and European American Protestant liturgical traditions are both interdependent and distinct; and that multicultural communities must both understand and celebrate the uniqueness of various member groups while also accepting the risk and possibility of praying themselves into an integrated body, one new culture. Contents: Preface; Liturgical theology in context; 'Once you were no people...now you are God's people': an analytical narrative of the construction of African-American Protestant liturgical traditions; 'Cities on hills': an analytical narrative of the construction of European-American Protestant liturgical traditions; Barriers built, barriers broken: the intersection of African-American and European-American liturgical traditions; 'Discerning the body': US racism, Protestant worship, and sacramental theology; Notes to text; Bibliography; Index. Scott Haldeman is Assistant Professor of Worship at Chicago Theological Seminary, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Founding convener of the African American Liturgical Traditions Seminar of the North American Academy of Liturgy, he studies worship traditions in U.S. Protestantism too often neglected by scholars in order to sketch a truer portrait of the diversity of worship among the churches, both historically and today. His publications include \"American Racism and the Promise of Pentecost\" in Liturgy: No Longer Strangers 14:4 (Washington, DC: The Liturgical Conference), 34-50.