Religious Control Over Consumer Society in the Digital Era: Jean Boudrillard's Perspective

Consumption and consumerism culture is one of the contemporary things that attracts the attention of various fields of science. The discussion about consumption and consumerism culture, of course, cannot be separated from an expert named Jean Baudrillard. This paper aims to find out how the consumption society in Jean Baudrillard's thought. This writing aims to describe the role of religion as a control for the consumption society in the aspect of consumer protection through halal certification. The method used in this research is a qualitative method, the type of article is a library study, the approach used is a normative approach. The results show that Baudrillard's opinion for the essence of consumption is social integration which has the object of the entire arena of social life. The subject of consumption is the consumption society. Consumption society in Jean Baudrillard's thinking lies in the ideology of consumption, namely liberal-capitalist idealism with the concept of an abundant society that yearns for stability and comfort of life. The ideology of stability and the concept of safety are based on the social logic of consumption in modern society. Religion provides rules in the consciousness of the consumption society to have to use halal ingredients, and avoid non-halal ingredients. As well as the view of the consumption society in Jean Boudriallrd's perspective.