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Students’ perspectives on religious moderation: A qualitative study into religious literacy processes

Yusuf Hanafi, Muhammad Saefi, Tsania N. Diyana, M. Alifudin Ikhsan, Nur Faizin, Titis Thoriquttyas, Nurul Murtadho
HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies | Vol 78, No 1 | a7638 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v78i1.7638 | © 2022 Yusuf Hanafi, Muhammad Saefi, Tsania N. Diyana, M. Alifudin Ikhsan, Nur Faizin, Titis Thoriquttyas, Nurul Murtadho | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 13 April 2022 | Published: 19 July 2022

About the author(s)

Yusuf Hanafi, Department of Arabic, Faculty of Letters, Universitas Negeri Malang, Malang, Indonesia
Muhammad Saefi, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universitas Islam Negeri Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang, Malang, Indonesia
Tsania N. Diyana, Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
M. Alifudin Ikhsan, Department of Pancasila Education and Civics, Faculty of Social Sciences, Universitas Negeri Malang, Malang, Indonesia
Nur Faizin, Department of Arabic, Faculty of Letters, Universitas Negeri Malang, Malang, Indonesia
Titis Thoriquttyas, Department of Arabic, Faculty of Letters, Universitas Negeri Malang, Malang, Indonesia
Nurul Murtadho, Department of Arabic, Faculty of Letters, Universitas Negeri Malang, Malang, Indonesia

Abstract

Research exploring how students develop their perspectives on religious moderation through reading and understanding the Qur’an is underexplored. This study aims to investigate students’ religious literacy tenet as a process of constructing meaning about religious moderation from the verses of the Qur’an. The participants involved were three students with an excellent ability to read the Qur’an and who had a great interest in the study of the Qur’an. The data were collected through the process of reading the verses of the Qur’an and its textual and contextual translation. The results of this study indicate that students with high translation amendments (adding, removing and replacing words and phrases) tend to have more ability to interpret the verses of the Qur’an widely as a form of verbalisation of thoughts.

Contribution: This study provides clarification on student interactions, the interpretation process and the construction of the meaning of the verses of the Qur’an. Furthermore, the results of this study encourage lecturers to reconstruct the process of learning to read the Qur’an at the university level.


Keywords

Qur’an; religious literacy process; reading Qur’an; religious moderation; textual translation; contextual translation

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