Youth: Mosque Religious Discourse And Practices

Abstract

Every Friday, Muslim mosques witness imams delivering religious sermons known as Friday sermons, which address various topics and issues in Islamic doctrine. It is well known that these sermons aim to preach to people, guide them, and satisfy their spiritual needs, and they are important in preserving the spirit of religion. However, what appears at first glance to the researcher or even the observer of reality is that there is a difference between what is presented inside mosques and delivered in sermons and what happens in daily social life. Let us look, for example, at the rise in cases of violence and crime, the exacerbation of deviant phenomena, and the emergence of dysfunction and disorder within society. Let us put the religious discourse in opposition to reality and compare them.