Digital Living Qur’an: Recitation, Identity, and Social Action in Indonesia’s ODOJ Community

Dede Rodin; Zaenuri; Zulfikar Ali Maulana

Article Details

Digital Living Qur’an: Recitation, Identity, and Social Action in Indonesia’s ODOJ Community

Authors:

Dede Rodin | Zaenuri | Zulfikar Ali Maulana

Publisher:

Quranic and Tafsir studies Programme at Ushuluddin Faculty

Main Topics:

Religion

Journal:

Al-Bayan: Jurnal Studi Al-Qur´an dan Tafsir Vol.11 Issue 1, pp.0-0

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

1/2026

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001874116

pISSN:

2528-1054

Abstract:

 Living Qur'an scholarship has largely focused on locally bounded communities, whereas digital religion studies have paid limited attention to the reception of sacred texts in online environments. This article examines the One Day One Juz (ODOJ) community in Indonesia as a digital living Qur'an phenomenon, investigating how digitally mediated Qur'anic recitation reshapes religious practice, communal identity, and collective social action. Using a hybrid digital ethnographic approach, the study combines participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and platform document analysis, with data analysed thematically through the proposed Digital Living Qur'an (DLQ) framework. The findings demonstrate that ODOJ institutionalises daily Qur'anic recitation through digital peer accountability, extends Qur'anic practice across interconnected digital platforms, constructs a distinctive symbolic ecosystem, and mobilises nationwide social action despite tensions between ikhlāṣ and riyāʾ, quantity and quality, and democratisation and standardisation. The study argues that these dynamics cannot be fully explained by either conventional Living Qur'an scholarship or digital religion theory alone. It therefore proposes Digital Living Qur'an (DLQ) as a new analytical framework that integrates both perspectives to explain the reception of the Qur'an in digitally mediated communities. Beyond Indonesia, this framework offers a transferable model for analysing comparable digital scripture communities across the Muslim world.

Article Details

Digital Living Qur’an: Recitation, Identity, and Social Action in Indonesia’s ODOJ Community

Authors: Dede Rodin | Zaenuri | Zulfikar Ali Maulana

Publisher: Quranic and Tafsir studies Programme at Ushuluddin Faculty

Main Topics: Religion

Journal: Al-Bayan: Jurnal Studi Al-Qur&acute;an dan Tafsir Vol.11 Issue 1, pp.0-0

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 1/2026

Document Language: English

Document ID (Org No.): 2001874116

pISSN: 2528-1054

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Authors:

Dede Rodin | Zaenuri | Zulfikar Ali Maulana

Publisher:

Quranic and Tafsir studies Programme at Ushuluddin Faculty

Main Topics:

Religion

Journal:

Al-Bayan: Jurnal Studi Al-Qur´an dan Tafsir Vol.11 Issue 1, pp.0-0

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

1/2026

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001874116

pISSN:

2528-1054