Religious gift and environmental conservation: case study on the movement of GSR (Gerakan Seribu Rupiah) in Semarang municipality Central Java

Elizabeth, Misbah Zulfa (2017) Religious gift and environmental conservation: case study on the movement of GSR (Gerakan Seribu Rupiah) in Semarang municipality Central Java. In: The 2nd Joint International Seminar Green Religion, Science and Technology: Prospect and Challenge for Sustainable Life, 2017, Semarang.

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Abstract

Religious gift is a phenomenon that is commonly found in various religious communities. In Islam the terms like zakat, infaq, and shadakah referred to the kinds of religious gift. Indeed religious gift is one of the religious orders having the purposes to care for those less fortunate. Although the religious order is common but what is interesting is that the practices of religious gift varied between communities. Religious gift which is practiced in rural area will be differed to the one practiced in urban area. The variation is related to the type of community in which the practice implemented. There is an interesting phenomenon in a residential neighbourhood in Semarang Municipality, the capital of Central Java Province. In this neighbourhood there is a mosque-based movement naming Gerakan Seribu Rupiah (One thousand rupiahs movement). The movement was initiated and executed by women . It has many activities that are oriented to family empowerment. Some of the activities are delivering scholarship, loan for school tuition, loan for family support in economic empowerment, and food aid. What the most interesting of the program is related to a specific way for fund raising that involved all the residents in the residential housing. The program combined garbages from all the residents of the residential housing and support that the garbages given must be intended for religious gift. For the purpose of the description on this phenomenon, this article will show the Gerakan Seribu Rupiah (GSR) as a religious community movement having concern on natural conservation. The detail that will be described are the profile of GSR, religious value of the garbages based fund rising, and the effects of the program toward community in general. This kind of description will inspire another community movement which is based on religious gift.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords: Semarang Municipality; Gerakan Seribu Rupiah; Mosque; Women; Religious gift
Subjects: 200 Religion (Class here Comparative religion) > 290 Other religions > 297 Islam and religions originating in it > 297.5 Islamic ethics, practice > 297.54 Zakat (Wakaf, Hibah, Infak, Sedekah, dll.)
300 Social sciences > 360 Social services; association > 363 Other social problems and services
Divisions: Prosiding/Conference paper
Depositing User: Miswan Miswan
Date Deposited: 03 May 2021 06:27
Last Modified: 03 May 2021 06:28
URI: https://eprints.walisongo.ac.id/id/eprint/12707

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