Islam dan Budaya: Strategi Kultural Walisongo dalam Membangun Masyarakat Muslim Indonesia

• Main Author: Suparjo Suparjo
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: IAIN Purwokerto 2015-03-01
• Series: Komunika
• Subjects: Walisongo; local cultures; Islamic doctrines; acculturation; and muslim society
• Online Access: http://ejournal.iainpurwokerto.ac.id/index.php/komunika/article/view/100
• ISSN: 1978-1261; 2548-9496

This paper intends to analyze how Walisongo applied their cultural strategies to construct Indonesia Muslim society. It aims to give an alternative view in solving the discourse on the effective impact of cultural strategy in constructing society. To do so, it applies a socio-historical perspective. As a result, Walisongo successfully constructed Muslim society as an inclusive and transformed people towards local cultures. However, Walisongo did not apply syncretism or integration between Islam and local culture but they just acculturated some of Islamic doctrine within local cultures. Therefore, there were many elements of local cultures adopted by Walisongo as elements of Islamic cultures by internalizing Islamic doctrines within them. Since Walisongo’s cultural strategy successfully played an important role in constructing society, the question then could it be adopted until nowdays?