Islamic Children Literature in Digital Media as Religious Literacy Movement

Abstract

Islamic children literature, which transformated, in new media was viewed as a part of religious movement. This movement was assumed as social reality in this era. The video children animation, Dodo and Syamil take as case. This paper explores social reality from the religous movement phenomena. Ian Watt’s sociology literary theory is used in this paper, especially the genre and the ideological expression to express social world. Data in this paper includes topic, genre, formula, and idea in the Dodo and Syamil phenomena. The data interpretation is done by relating between topic, formula, and ideological concept to find social reality. The result of this paper is that social reality based on religios islamic movement in modernity context. This movement manifested with several topic, such as faith, worship, and characters. NCR Production is a part from islamic movement which was banned by political and ideological situation.

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“…They are present to fill offline bookstores, online, and book fairs. The proliferation of these books can be assumed as a religious literacy movement but besides that it can become a commercial movement (Wati & Susanto, 2019). Instead of seeing these Islamic children's stories as works that adhere to literary standards, these stories have been transformed into a religious literacy movement because they show and teach children the morality of the Islamic religion.…”

“…In the context of Islamic children's literature, parents also need to be careful in determining which Islamic stories are appropriate for children to be read. The topics raised in the digital film media of Dodo and Syamil children's stories include affirmation of faith, worship, and morals (Wati & Susanto, 2019). These topics do reflect the existence of a religious literacy movement, but if you look at the ideological side, from the structure of stories and images, it is alleged that the story of Dodo and Syamil shows an attempt to reproduce puritanism as a step to bring back Islam in accordance with the Qur'an and Hadith.…”