Summary: | MTA can be called as purification movements because it aims to restore religion literally
or scriptually to Al Quran and Hadits. MTA strongly refuses religious experiences which
accomodate local cultures. The movement�s purpose is to empower the quality of Islamic
community in Indoensia in particular, but on other hand the movement puts its followers as
subject with keeping them in loyalty and collecting the funds from them. Although MTA puts its
followers as a subject of the movements as a purification movements it gains the followers in
rural area while the assumption of puritanism is associated as an urban phenomena (Tamney,
1980). The purposes of this study include, first, to find out how MTA design the movement.
Second, this study will review the factors that affect the participation of the MTA's rural
communities through: first, determine the ability of MTA in using resources that affect the
participation of MTA�s member, second to know how the individual participation process in the
movement, and the influence between the acceptability of the movement against environmental
conditions, especially in villages. Third, the study aims to determine the attraction of interest
between the MTA and its followers behind the jargon of religious purification as a form of
religious commodification (Kitiarsa, 2008, 2010). This thesis argues that idealism and
pragmatism in religious movement can not be separated. In the case of MTA, its idealism as
Puritanism corresponds with its pragmatism to put its followers as a subject to its development.
On the other hand there is reciprocal of interest between the movement and its followers behind
the process of their participation in MTA taking example from what happen in Watu Gedhe
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