PERAN POLITIK KYAI DI MASYARAKAT (Studi Tentang Bentuk dan Variasi Peran Politik Kyai di Pedesaan)

Abstract

The study of the role of clerics in society has many
conducted by researchers. Both the typology and variations
forms of political involvement in rural communities. Studies on
these clerics interesting to talk about at least since two reasons:
(1) The difference of understanding of clerics still occur among
researchers; (2) The modernization process has seen lower
their roles and functions as a character kyais religion in society.
In any event, the involvement of clerics is needed in the
community because sociologically kyais is part of the religious
life. The study discusses typology clerics and other forms of
involvement in politics in rural communities. Kyai can be
categorized not just as spiritual religious scholars, clerics
advokatif, adaptive and political clerics political clerics critical
partners, as expressed by the Imam Suprayogo, but also
clerics and religious scholars nasab fate, seen from In terms of
his descendants and spiritual religious scholars, clerics
movements, political clerics accommodating pragmatic and
ideological clerics accommodative political views in terms of
activity and political affiliation in the community.