Semiotic Analysis of Religious Plurality in Medan Society

Abstract

This study aims to describe the semiotic signs of the national religious, symbols used in worship space, and the ecclesiastical colors used in worship space in Christian Protestant. The purpose of this study was to determine the semiotic type of the national religious, symbols used in worship space, and the ecclesiastical colors used in worship space in Christian Protestant. This study used descriptive qualitative method. Sources of data are taken from HKBP sidorame Church. The results of this study analyze the national religious, symbols used in worship space, and the ecclesiastical colors used in worship space in Christian Protestant. The technique for collecting data is observed religious rituals and symbols that have been researched, and the researcher writes all the data or anything that was included to the problem of the study. The technique of analyzing data was taken the meaning of the national religious, symbols used in worship space, and the ecclesiastical colors used in worship space,classified the types of semiotic such as icon, index and symbol, and described the dominant types of semiotic. The findings of this research are the discovery of semiotic signs, namely icons, indices and symbols on the national religious, symbols used in worship space, and the ecclesiastical colors used in worship space in Christian Protestant. Each of these things has a different meaning. The most dominant types are symbols (95.5%), indexes (18%) and icons (4.5%).