Kemajemukan agama yang ada di Indonesia merupakan kenyataan histories dan empiris yang tidak dapat dibantah lagi. Pluralitas tersebut menghadirkan potensi konflik social diantara pemeluknya. Sejarah telah mencatat tentang sering munculnya konflik tersebut, baik dalam level intern umat beragama maupun antar umat beragama. Konflik yang terjadi pada masyarakat pluralis tidak dapat dihilangkan, kar…
Kajian agama dalam masyarakat dalam skala kecil sebagaimana yang dilakukan oleh para antropolog sosial secara sederhana dapat dilihat perkembangannya dalam karya Emile Durkheim. Menurutnya, sasaran keagamaan adalah lambang-lambang masyarakat, kesakralan bersumber pada kekuatan yang dinyatakan berlaku oleh masyarakat secara keseluruhan bagi setiap anggota. Fungsinya adalah mempertahankan dan mem…
Jaminan dasar akan kebebasan beragama bagi masing-masing warga masyarakat melandasai hubungan antar warga masyarakat atas dasar sikap saling menghormati, yang akan mendorong timbulnya kerangka sikap tenggang rasa dan saling pengertian yang besar. Terlepas dari itu kentalnya perjalanan sejarah dengan penindasan, kesempitan pandangan dan kedzaliman terhadap kelompok minoritas yang berbeda keyakin…
Religiosity is basic need of human beings.It is needed to guide human beings in achieving their happiness in life.If human beings have realized that they can rely on their religious belief, none can force them to embrace a new religion.
Studi on the wars of apostasy shows that the meaning of riddah at Abu Bakr's reign has more extensive connotation. It was not only defined as the rejection of the former religion [Islam]. But also as every deed of renegade and rebel againts Islamic goverment. There were many factors to do apostasy. Such as refusal of paying alms, denial againts the caliphate of Abu Bakr, disconnection from the …
Based on the historical evidences, this article explains that religious pluralism has a deep root in the experience of Western civilization in achieving the piece of society. Through this article the writer tries to show that separatism, horizontal conflict, and other violence among societies, as happening in Indonesia recently, should be solved with revitalizing the idea of pluralism and natio…
The concept wahdat al adyan inb 'Araby is a rule how to discribe a god in some meanings and labels which derives in religion. The diversification perpectives on existance of god in each religions encourage some ways to reach salvation.hety.
Some social facts occured recently among community of religions as though bring us a message that religious pluralism has not yet earned to attend the positive things. What precisely happened was on the contrary, religious pluralism often became the tigger or source of social conflict. religious pluralism has peeped out various conflicts among religious community and many areas in Indonesia, e.…