A SYMBOLIC VIOLENCE BEHIND THE CONSTRUCTION OF "NEW ISLAM": A CASE IN CHAPTER 10 OF THE BOOK OF "pai DAN BUDI PEKERTI"

Abstract

This research investigates the symbolic violence in the book Pendidikan Agama Islam (PAI) dan Budi Pekerti (Islamic Education and Morality) for the eleventh grade students of SMA published by KementerianPendidikandanKebudayaan (Kemdikbud)/Ministry of Education and Culture. Its purpose is to prove that there is the symbolic violence practices found in the texts. The study focuses on the construction of the concept of New Islam written in the book. The Critical Discourse Analysis developed by van Dijk and Symbolic Violence developed by Pierre Bourdieu are used to analyze the problem of the research. This research used descriptive-qualitative method to depict the phenomena in the data related to the implementation of symbolic violence through critical discourse analysis. The data of this research were taken from the book on page 168-170 about Modern Islam. The results of the analysis show that the book applied the symbolic violence in the form of forcing doxa of Salafi-Wahabi sects, as identified through Authors’ Partiality, and externalization of Salafi-Wahabi Ideology.