When Ritual Is Experienced as Healing: An Islamic Counseling Oriented Phenomenological Study of Kololi Kie within the Ternate Community, Indonesia
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Objective: This study explores how the Kololi Kie ritual is experienced and interpreted as healing within the Ternate community, with particular attention to how Islamic values inform meaning-making processes in an indigenous counseling-oriented context.
Methods and Materials: The study adopts a qualitative phenomenological approach grounded in Alfred Schutz’s social phenomenology. Data were collected through participant observation and in-depth interviews with 12 participants, including traditional elders, ritual facilitators, and community members who regularly engage in Kololi Kie. Supplementary materials included field notes and local cultural documents related to the ritual. The analysis focused on participants lived experiences and motivational orientations.
Findings: The findings indicate that participants experience Kololi Kie as emotionally and spiritually restorative, describing processes of emotional relief, moral reflection, social connectedness, and existential meaning-making. These experiences are articulated through culturally and religiously embedded narratives rather than through formal therapeutic techniques. Within Schutz’s framework, the study identifies a spiritually oriented dimension of motivation that complements in-order-to and because motives, highlighting how ritual participation is shaped by transcendental intentions and moral accountability.
Conclusion: Rather than conceptualizing Kololi Kie as a formal counseling model or clinical intervention, this study suggests that the ritual may be understood as an indigenous practice through which healing is subjectively experienced and socially negotiated. The findings contribute to phenomenological discussions of spirituality and counseling by illustrating how Islamic values operate as part of a lived moral and cultural lifeworld. Given its focus on a single ritual within one community, the study’s insights are context-specific and not intended for generalization.
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