Doing Business in the House of God: Negotiation Space between Worship and Economics on Friday Prayer
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This article describes about  negotiation space between worship and economics on Friday prayer at Masjid Ulul Albab (MUA) Medan. The main focus on this research is the appearance of pedagang kagetan (sudden traders) on Friday pray laying down their merchandises such as worship equipments, Moslem clothing, meal, snack, mineral water, etc around the mosque. The findings of this articles is the phenomenon where there is  there is a change  function of the mosque becomes a market. To understand the phenomenon, there are two questions appear:  what are the factors that contribute to the negotiations of worship and the economy and how the practice of economic progress. This paper explains that the factors pushing this situation because there is  “blurring†between the room of worship and economic boundaries. Thus there is dominance of economic  in the worship space. It happens because there is mutual need between merchants and pilgrims. It is done to meet the needs of the merchant family.Downloads
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Interviewee
Raka (38 tahun), 25/12/2015.
Djafar (40 tahun), 25/12/2015.
Waiz (54 tahun), 03/01/2016.
Ayhan, Irem and K. Mert Cubukcu, “Explaining Historical Urban Development using the Locations of Mosques: A GIS / Spatial Statistics-Based Approachâ€, Applied Geography, 30, 2 (2010).
Beyer, Peter, “Privatization and the Public Influence of Religion in Global Societyâ€, Global Culture: Nationalism, Globalization and Modernity, ed., Mike Featherstone (London: SAGE Publications, 1997).
Bowen, John R., “Salat in Indonesia: The Social Meaning of an Islamic Ritualâ€, Man, New Series, 24, 4 (1989).
Foucault, Michel, Power / Knowledge: Selected Interview and Other Writing, 1972-1977 (New York: Pantheon Books, 1980).
Geertz, Clifford, “The Bazaar Economy: Information and Search in Peasant Marketingâ€, The American Economic Review, 68, 2 (1978).
Clifford Geertz, Agricultural Involution: The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia (Los Angeles, California: University of California Press, 1963).
Lefebvre, Henri, “Space: Social Product and Use Valueâ€, Critical Sociology: European Perspective, J. ed., Freiberg (New York: Irvington Publisher, 1979).
Lefebvre, Henri, The Production of Space, trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith (Oxford: Blackwell, 1991).
McLoughlin, Sean, “Mosques and the Public Space: Conflict and Cooperation in Bradfordâ€, Journal of Ethic and Migration Studies, 31, 6 (2005).
Muslim, Azis, et.al., “A Mosque-Based Economic Empowerment Model for Urban Poor Communityâ€, International Journal of Social Science Research, 2, 2 (2014).
Odean, Terrance, “Volume, Volatility, Price and Profit when all Traders are Above Averageâ€, The Journal of Finance, 53, 6 (1998).
Shiner, Larry E., “Sacred Space, Profane Space, Human Spaceâ€, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 40, 4 (1972).
Weix, G.G., “Islamic Prayer Groups in Indonesia Local Forums and Gendered Responsesâ€, Critique of Anthropology, 18, 4 (1998).
Interviewee
Raka (38 tahun), 25/12/2015.
Djafar (40 tahun), 25/12/2015.
Waiz (54 tahun), 03/01/2016.
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2016-10-02
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Yafiz, M. (2016). Doing Business in the House of God: Negotiation Space between Worship and Economics on Friday Prayer. IBDA` : Jurnal Kajian Islam Dan Budaya, 14(2), 277–292. https://doi.org/10.24090/ibda.v14i2.679
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