Spiritual Communication of Grebeg Maulid Ceremonial Cultural Space in Madiun’s Town Square

Abstract

Culture became a city character that will keep developing through times, Grebeg Maulid of Madiun is one example of developing culture into tourism sites. Madiun’s Government was so intensively introducing Madiun as a religious tourism sites. This research discusesabout ritual communication presented by the people through cultural spacesthatareformed in Madiun’s town square area during grebeg maulid ceremony. Method used in this research is descriptive qualitative with etnographic approach, using Dell Hymes theory for the guidelines. Collected data or information and result centres oncommunication form of grebeg maulid in madiun’s town square. It is hope that this studycould be a new start towards deeper researchusing etnographic method about grebeg maulid. It is expected that this study will bring a furtherimage for the government’s planning in developing culture into tourism sites (religious tourism sites) without losing its meaning.

Keywords

• grebeg maulid
• cultural space
• non-verbal communication