This paper attempts to closely portray interreligious harmony, especially between Muslim and Hindu community in Tengger, East Java. Tengger community are ingrained with their own culture and practicing their unique tradition. Through symbolic-interactionist approach, this paper supposes that this reality represents a cultural process which is simultaneously and flexibly flowing and growing. In …
Durkheim’s Social Theory undertakes a careful analysis of sacred societies. He argues that in each society, there is a general system of belief which legitimatizes the social order and raises the collective, networked, and symbol bounded awareness and therefore keeps the social system run. Religions bring meanings to individual and societal lives, hopes for a more external life in the hereaft…