The existence of religion education in Indonesia from the beginning has raised polemic circumstance, it appears many policies on the existence of religion education.This article portrayals the religion education in Soekarno's regime.In his era, in which consistend of three periods; revolutionary era, parliementary democracy, and guide democracy was early seen how the political policies of the g…
In the hierarchy of traditional society, Kiai is considered to belong to both social and religious elite. He therefore holds an important role in his society. However, with the expansion of modernity that gives birth to a progressive and dynamic change in our society, Kiai is not regarded any more as the sole agent of social chane. His function is becoming less and limited vis -a-vis modernity.…
This paper will describe the problems and challanges of Islamic religious education, both abstractive philosophical problems and methodological problems of practice. Abstractive philosophical problems are fundamental issues, long term. They are abstract in the sense requiring general thinking formulation. Thus, they require contextualization commentary on each of the times and places. Mean-whil…
Researches in religious studies-as well as Islamic studies-often use approaches that lead to simplistic and reductionist conclusions. This indeed runs counter to the substance of pluralism which is rich in its symbol and intensional representation. This article is an effort to describe the significance of the phenomenological approach to the study of religion by using the works of Douglas Allen…