Volume IV: Society, Culture, and Local Ecological Wisdom

Corporate-Based Islamic Education as a New Social Movement: Exploring Spiritual Resilience in Industrial Society

  • Deden Kurnia Adam UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung, Indonesia

Keywords

Corporate-Based Islamic Education; New Social Movement; Spiritual Resilience; Resource Mobilization; Spiritual Identity.

Abstract

This study examines corporate-based Islamic education through the lens of new social movement theory and explores its potential relevance to spiritual resilience among workers in industrial society. Employing a descriptive qualitative method within a sociological-interpretive perspective, the study combines a theoretically oriented literature review with in-depth interviews involving a human resource practitioner and a coordinator of a workplace Islamic study program. The data were interpreted using two complementary perspectives: an identity- oriented approach to new social movements and resource mobilization theory. The findings indicate that corporate-based Islamic education exhibits several characteristics associated with new social movements, particularly voluntary participation, emerging collective spiritual identification, and the mobilization of organizational resources. The HR informant reported relatively high voluntary employee participation in weekly Islamic study sessions, while corporate support included prayer facilities, scheduling flexibility, financial support for religious teachers, transportation and accommodation, institutional legitimacy, and internal coordination. The educational process was characterized by dialogical, non-judgmental, contextual, and solution-oriented learning, with an emphasis on self-development and practical religious concerns rather than political or excessively disputative issues. These practices provided employees with opportunities for religious meaning-making, ethical reflection, and social-spiritual support that may serve as resources for spiritual resilience. The findings further suggest that collective religious identification provides a motivational basis for voluntary participation, while resource mobilization enables the organizational continuity of workplace religious learning. The main contribution of this study lies in identifying pedagogical contextualization as a mediating mechanism through which corporate resources are translated into accessible and meaningful Islamic learning. Corporate-based Islamic education can therefore be interpreted as an educational phenomenon exhibiting characteristics associated with new social movements at the intersection of religious agency and institutional facilitation, thereby extending the institutional landscape of contemporary Islamic education into the everyday organizational life of industrial society.

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