Everyday
religion is a way to differ the practice of daily activity from the official
teaching of religion. This term implies that every religion has their own
teaching, but also has their own practices from its adherents. The differences
arose because there are many ways for understanding of teaching by people.
Everyday religion is other version of ways of understanding by ordinary or
common people in the modern era.
The term of
everyday religion contains with two contradictions. The first is about the distinguishing
between ordinary people and non-ordinary people, or “official people”. This
term is so problematic because in reality there is no distinguishing among the
society. If the different factor is coming from the power to translate of
understand the religious teaching, it will be useless. Nothing “official
people” can be the only one trusted for translating, there are many other
“official people” also. So, the problem is not merely about the ordinary people
understanding, but also the different understanding from “official people”.
The second is
about the term of modern era. According to Berger and Ammerman, everyday
religion happens only in modern society. This term of Modern refers to Western
history, such as enlightenment, industrial revolution, and capitalism era, and
so forth. If the point of view of everyday religion is about the different
understanding about religious teaching, obviously many religions have their own
experience. For instance, many conflicts happened in the early Islamic history
among Khawarij, Sunni and Shiite. It obviously happened because of the sharp
difference of understanding the teaching of Islam. So, in pre modern era also
happened many everyday religions.
Everyday
religion contains contradictions arose from the term itself. Two of them are
about the confusing distinguishing between ordinary and no-ordinary people, and
the problems of modern society. Historically, there are no clear different from
the problems arose except the sharp difference about understanding of religious
teaching.
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