%0 Thesis
%9 Skripsi
%A Nugie Valdizaktie, NIM.: 19105020039
%B FAKULTAS USHULUDDIN DAN PEMIKIRAN ISLAM
%D 2025
%F digilib:73148
%I UIN SUNAN KALIJAGA YOGYAKARTA
%K Sakral, Profan, Hierofani, Desakralisasi, Simbol, Rumah Sakit, Ambivalen
%P 157
%T SIMBOL AGAMA DI RUMAH SAKIT BERBASIS RELIGIUS: ANTARA SAKRAL DAN PROFAN DALAM PENGALAMAN INDIVIDU
%U https://digilib.uin-suka.ac.id/id/eprint/73148/
%X This research examines how individuals interpret religious symbols in faith-based hospitals and how these symbols function in producing hierophany (sacred manifestation) or undergo desacralization within the profane domain of medical institutions. The study is grounded in the fact that hospitals, as modern medical institutions characterized by rationality and technocracy, also contain religious symbols that create a dialectic between the sacred and the profane in the experiences of patients and medical staff. Using a descriptive qualitative approach, this research employs Mircea Eliade’s theory of the sacred and the profane as the main analytical framework, supported by perspectives from Jason Josephson Storm and René Girard to sharpen the analysis. Data were collected through open questionnaires and in-depth interviews with 16 informants consisting of patients, visitors, and medical staff from Islamic, Christian, and Catholic hospitals (Christian medical staff in Islamic hospitals, Muslim patients in Catholic hospitals), and were analyzed thematically.  The findings reveal that religious symbols in hospitals are interpreted in diverse ways. For some individuals, they serve as gateways to sacred experiences, fostering inner peace, strengthening prayer, and nurturing hope for healing, through Qur’anic calligraphy, recitations of the murottal, or communal prayers that generate hierophanic moments. For others, however, religious symbols are reduced to institutional markers or decorative ornaments, thus undergoing desacralization. This dialectic indicates that the meaning of symbols is never singular but continuously negotiated through social context, religious affiliation, and emotional conditions. Moreover, while differences in religion may lead to feelings of estrangement or concerns about potential fanaticism, they also create opportunities for tolerance, sympathy, and interfaith empathy amid the shared experience of illness. Accordingly, religious symbols in faith-based hospitals function ambivalently: they can serve as mediums of hierophany while at the same time being susceptible to desacralization, depending on individual experiences and contexts of interaction.
%Z Drs. Rahmat Fajri, M.Ag.