Establishing Student's Social Piety through Religious Activities

摘要

Social piety refers to the behavior of people who are concerned with Islamic values in society. The values include being polite to others, helpful, concerned with other people's problems, paying attention to and respecting the rights of others; being able to think based on other people's perspectives, being able to empathize or being able to feel what is felt by others. These values may enable people to feel comfortable, peaceful, and willing to interact, cooperate, and associate with each other. This descriptive study investigates the establishment of students' social piety through religious activities either included in the co-curricular or extracurricular activities at one of an Islamic Elementary School in Bandung Regency, West Java. The study was done by conducting interview to the principal, vice principal, and teachers at the school, doing observation, and documentation. The results show that the students' social piety is the ultimate goal of all religious activities implemented in the investigated school. It is the real implementation of the vision, mission and goal of the school. The religious activities at the research site which is done by habituating the students to perform routine worship have function to foster the students' good morals and attitude either toward God, humans, or toward other creatures which is the reflection of one's social piety.