Sharia Housing: Religious Commodification and the Urban Muslims’ Politics of Space

Umam, Fawaizul Umam (2021) Sharia Housing: Religious Commodification and the Urban Muslims’ Politics of Space. Tashwirul Afkar, 40 (01). pp. 23-47. ISSN 1410-9166

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Abstract

The demand of Sharia housing intensely emerge in various cities with urban moslem population. The Sharia-labeled housing has gradually become a new business icon in the property sector due to the religious commodification strategy by developers. Its presence is a symbolic sign of the revival of religious conservatism. This leads to the potential problem of exclusivism in residential life style, as Sharia housing often seems implementing segregation in social spaces. This potentially create intolerances and threaten social coexistence among Sharia housings residents and/or between the residents and surrounding communities. Meanwhile, the urban Islamists have shown an agenda of the politics of space, namely institutionalizing the Islamism spirit in the public sphere of Sharia housing through family institutions. This paper argues that these potential problems are is a side effects of the religious commodification in the Sharia housing business. This is not just a matter of business ethics, but it potentially desacralizes religion so as to be a mere commodity. What is more, it can be a catalyst of the politics of space which facilitates Islamism to delegitimize the existence of the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	22 PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES > 2204 Religion and Religious Studies > 220405 Religion and Society
Depositing User:	Fawaizul Umam
Date Deposited:	13 Apr 2023 05:10
Last Modified:	13 Apr 2023 05:10
URI:	http://digilib.uinkhas.ac.id/id/eprint/22461

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