Modernization has indeed brought about a significant change in education. In response to it, education has reoriented itself in terms of its curriculum, teaching methodology, teaching qualification, institution management, leadership management and so on. In Indonesia efforts to modernize education are still limited to what seems to be the mere surface of the matter. These efforts in other word…
Modernity as a global phenomenon has been the most driving matter, said those scholars of modernity, that potentially threat the existent of tradition and religion. Both would vanish once the project of secularism accomplishes.However, since the global modernity, whether represented by secular state,nation state, and democracy, failed to fulfil its promises, tradition and religions in general h…
Al Qur'an is interpreted in different ways and approaches. Progressive Muslims, for instance, pay attention to three themes, namely social justice, gender equality, and pruralism. They propose their arguments based on the fundamental understading from [al Hijr/15:29 Sad/38:71, and an Nahl/16:90], namely: 1)every human being has the same intrinsic glory, 2)the main mission of human presence in t…