Mubalig Kondang: A Sociological Overview of Religiosity

¹ Student of Doctoral Program of Literature, Faculty of Humanities, Indonesia University, Depok, Indonesia
² Faculty of Humanities, Diponegoro University, Semarang, Indonesia

^* Correspondingauthor: sukarjowaluyo@gmail.com

Abstract

The approach of literary sociology is one of the literary approaches that specialize in the study of literary works taking into account social aspects of society. Mubalig Kondang [1] is interesting to study because it tells how the author’s expression of the religiosity problem that existed in the society of the Javaneses antri (students of traditional Islamic boarding school in Java) in particular, as well as Indonesia in general. Pengajian (mass teaching of Islam in the village) that becomes the habits and traditions of the santri community as well as the symbol of the author’s heart disclosure. Pengajian is a common religious ritual around us still a kind of ‘thing’ that could be questioned. The religious ritualisonly a compensation of some people who are from the complexity of the problem.