This article deals with fundamentalism by perceiving it as the source of code of belief for modern Islamic ideologies, in general, idealise Islamic rulings and concrete examples of muslim's life in the early Islam as the orientation of their movement. They differ in focusing their own ideological orientation, however. While revivalism, for instance, gives emphasis to religious and political asp…
Tulisan ini merupakan telaah terhadap karya Mark R. Woodward, berjudul Islam Jawa: Kesalehan normatif versus kebatinan. Karya ini memiliki arti penting bagi kajian Islam lokal di Nusantara. Sebab, dengan menggunakan pendekatan dan metodologi yang berbeda, woodward telah mampu menghadirkan perspektif yang baru, bahkan dalam banyak hal sangat berbeda dengan kajian Cliffort Geertz dalam the religi…
The research deals with the bases of theology and hstory of the establishment and development of falsafi tasawuf which focuses on the trace the Qur'anic and Hadith foundations with the fluctuation of sufistic thoughts in its historical dimensian. In addition, the discussion of the development of falsafi tasawuf is intended as an attempt of tracing the community and dreativity of sufi teachings …
This article wanted to criticize discussants previously while they analyzed factor of the ethnic-religious conflict, specifically in Indonesia. They usually based their research on the structural-functional theory wit pressed an external factors, for example political and economical factor. While the writer of this article explaine a different analysis with loked the reliious-ethnic conflict fr…
This research deals with a phenomenon of the increase of the religious mystical life in metropolitan Muslim societes. Its objects of study are forms of the mystical life, its factors from which it results, and certain benefits that are received after following its religious activities. The city of Surabaya is chosen as research area. The method that is done here is qualitative by placing the re…
Dalam tulisan ini ada dua kesimpulan; Pertama Hubungan filsafat dan agama di Barat telah terjadi sejak periode Yunani Klasik, pertengahan, modern, dan kontemporer, meskipun harus diakui bahwa hubungan keduanya mengalami pasang surut. Kedua, Dewasa ini di Barat terdapat kecenderungan yang demikian kuat terhadap peranan agama. Masyarakat modern yang rasionalistik, ternyata hampa spiritual, sehing…
Sebagai dua sistem politik yang banyak dipraktekkan dalam kehidupan berbangsa dan bernegara, konsep demokrasi dan teokrasi seringkali dihadapkan secara diametral. Berkaitan dengan sistem pemerintahan yang dipraktekkan pemimpin-pemimpin di beberapa negara, diantaranya dikenal sistem demokrasi dan sistem teokrasi. Jadi, orang pun berbicara tentang demokrasi Amerika, Prancis, dan demokrasi Indones…