The Religious Culture’s Development in Modern Technology Era

Abstract

The background of the study is the lack of religious habituation in non-religious-based private schools. It causes a lack of education and character formation in the school. Besides, SMP Telkom Purwokerto is a non-religious and technology-based school. However, it can develop and perform religious culture well. The study aims to describe and analyze the religious culture’s development, particularly Islamic culture in SMP Telkom Purwokerto. The study used a qualitative approach and was examined by triangulation technic. The result of the study shows that the model of religious culture’s development in SMP Telkom Purwokerto is a structural model which has three explanations, such as (1) the process of religious culture’s values development, such as religious values internalization in vision, mission, and aim of the school, rules, curriculum content, religious program, and daily behavior of school’s members; (2) the process of religious culture implementation such as religious values’ socialization, action plan’s arrangement as performed by Pagi Barokah program, Dhuhur prayer, Friday prayer, religious school atmosphere formation, online monitoring for student’s behavior, competition’s participation, religious extracurricular, and give a reward to an achievement; (3) Religious culture’s artifact such as the display the student’s works, the posters which contain moral values, and the recommendation for using polite uniform.