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Hermeneutika Praksis Liberatif Farid Esack
Full text linkThe history of prophecy in general and the existence of Prophet Mohammad in particular are the evidence of the important role of Islam as religion of liberation. It means that Islam intends to pose human position into precise site, the caliphate. Muhammad Iqbal states this position as co-cretio of God. Furthermore, revelation of the Quran, according to Farid Esack, is progressive revelation. Quran is a scripture of liberation. Even though, this spirit is often arrested in the interpretations of Quran. These interpretations are often constructed only for the interest of power or the pursuit of elite. Therefore, spirit of Quranic liberation misses its strength and vitality. At this point, Farid Esack gives his attention and his intellectual concern. The weakness of Quranic interpretation inspires Farid Esack to formulate methodology of Quranic interpretation. Esack named this methodology as “liberative hermeneuticsâ€. Esack focuses to humanize human, based on (criticizing) power system and structure of South Africa. Farid Esack gives a strong foothold to his hermeneutic theory on theological system. The choice built by him is very precise. Esack’s excess compared to other intellectual such as Arkoun and Fazlur Rahman is that Esack involves in the act of liberation and the intensity of the dialectic in the field with people of other faiths and ethnic groups and race
Narrowing Theological Disparities between Moslem and Christian Perspective on Jesus Christ
Full text linkDalam salah satu ayat, Alquran mengidentifikasi umat Kristen sebagai “teman dekat†bagi orang-orang Muslim, dibandingkan dengan umat Yahudi (al-Mâ’idah [5]: 82). Posisi yang diberikan Alquran kepada umat Kristen ini menjadi sangat penting dalam konteks relasi dan dialog antar umat beragama. Artikel ini berusaha menjelaskan titik temu dan persamaan-persamaan antara ajaran Islam dengan doktrin Kristen terkait dengan Yesus, atau ‘Isâ al-Masîh}. Tema Kristologi menjadi pilihan pembahasan makalah ini karena Yesus dalam doktrin Kristen menjadi pijakan utama bangunan kristianitas, sementara dalam normatif Islam ia juga mendapat porsi pembahasan yang cukup banyak. Artikel ini bermaksud untuk memberikan pemahaman yang komprehensif terkait dengan pandangan Kristen dan Islam terhadap personalitas dan ajaran Yesus atau Isa Al-Masih. Dalam konteks dialog antar umat beragama, hal tersebut sangat penting bagi kita untuk merundingkan kalimah sawâ’ (a common word) antara Islam dan Kristen. Hal tersebut tidak berarti bahwa kita mencari perbedaan untuk saling menyalahkan, melainkan untuk menyatukan ide yang sama tentang Yesus atau ‘Isâ al-Masîh} dalam Kristen maupun Islam. Mengetahui dan memahami Kristologi Islam akan memperkaya pandangan kita mengenai kehidupan Yesus
Titik Temu Agama-agama dalam Analisis Interpretatif
Full text linkThe discourses about religion will never come to end. Religion will always be a topic of public sphere and cannot be separated from subjective views. Religion carries the important aspect from which it functions as a vehicle for human being to act of how runs our life in this world. This condition tends to convey religion into an exclusive side. On the one hand, for its adherents, religion (faith) is a basic principle that funnels them to achieve the mean of their life. On the other hand, religion also guide its adherents how to interact with their surroundings politically, economically, socially and religiously. It means that religion is operational and functional doctrine. In social life, religion is used to have such condition where all the structure is well constructed. Basically, the “big religions†(Judaism, Christianity and Islam) are from the same derivation: Semitic. Tauhid is one example of that derivation, besides universal values which inherently arise from those religions. From this point of view, we can say that religion actually has already brought such linear characters among one and another. In this regard, this article attempts to portray the convergences of those religions by using the method of interpretative analysi
Realitas Sejarah dan Dinamika Identitas Yahudi Nusantara
Full text linkThe history of Jewish Nusantara in Indonesia is unclear whether Jewish came to Indonesia or otherwise. The fact that in Indonesia regulation, Judaism is not part of religions officially recognized by the state, add more suspicions that Judaism is not well accepted in Indonesia. In addition, Indonesia people, objectively, factually and historically speaking, have no much information about Judaism either in terms of religion, social, cultural and politics. In terms of academic studies, Historical and scientific record are not yet capable to explore much information about them. On one hand, the history of Judaism in Indonesia (Yahudi Nusantara) is academically and culturally limited. On the other hand, public discussion and debate relating to this topic—which tend to describe Jews historically and stereotypically—are rising and growing. This article aims to narrow the gap between both of two mentioned realities to explore historical existence of Jews in Indonesia. It will elucidate specific moments when Jews reality has been transforming and challenging in the context of Indonesian culture. Using this paradigm, the article perceives Jews as a dynamic and moving survival, like other realities. Therefore, this article intends to build good understanding of Judaism, in general, and Indonesian Jews in particular
Perbandingan Dimensi Mistis dan Dialogis dalam a Common Word menurut Caner Dagli dan John Chryssavgis
Full text linkReligion becomes a way to create such a peaceful condition for human being. In the meantime, pluralism constitutes an undistracted phenomenon which has wrapped human life for any single day. Human live in pluralism and constitutes a part of pluralism either passively or actively. Religious pluralism constitutes a particular challenges faced by world religions at this time. Understanding transcendental mission among religious followers, especially Jews, Christians and Muslim, is un-prevented phenomenon which has created several conflicts based on hatreds and fear. Each religion has been growing within heterogenic environment. Responding the realm of heterogeneity in the global era, we need principally reconciliation. It occurs in the guidance of A Common Word which is practiced as a road map to make religious dialogue and to build peace. Religious dialogue must be practiced to reduce conflict and theological problem among religious believers. It needs applied approach to solve religious conflict. This article will elucidate the agreed principles in the field of mysticism and attempt to look for the “melting pot†of religions. The similar perception, equal understanding and tolerance will hopefully shape harmony, peace, and fairness among religious believers, among nations
Dialog antariman dalam Perspektif Fethullah Gülen
Full text linkSamuel Huntington’s Clash of Civilization reveals two civilization poles: Western and Eastern worlds. In the West perspective, Islam is a serious threat. Islam is regarded as a terrifying religion and having rigid characteristic, cruel, radical, no plurality mindset, terrorism, undeserved women subjected, dislike other groups, suicide bombing and others. Fethullah Gulen tried to change this view. He tries to combine Islamic values with universal humanism. The problem on how Islam could live in the modern world that aware of plurality is the background of Gulen’s concern. For him, the way to reconcile any matter of diversity’s problem is through dialogue. Dialogue in complex world’s society constitutes a delightful gift for answering society’s condition todays on. To create cosmopolitan Islam in the world, Gullen offers a kind of dialogues as a bargaining solution of an interreligious, culture and civilization problem. The endeavor of dialogue must be done through institutionalization of multi-cultural educational movement by establishing educational institution based on religious social harmony
Membaca Kembali Akar Konflik Islam-Kristen
Full text linkThis article examines the extent of the roots of the conflict between Muslim-Christian and some new horizons full of hope about the relationship between them because both communities derived from the same ancestor, Abraham. Relationship between Islam and Christianity has been (and always) ambivalent: between conflict and peace, between harmony and discord. Qur’an, the scripture of Moslem, invites others to build an inter-religious dialogue in fair and just way. Qur’an has also put the fundamental principle such as political, economic, social and theological considerations. Since Islam and Christianity have identical sources, it is rather unproblematic to look for the equal methods and systems that could effectively found the dialogue. This article intends to discover the roots of conflict within relationship between Islam and Christianity and try to find new perspectives. This paper will discuss claim of theological finality between Islam and Christianity, Christian justification on the crusades and the efforts to build dialogue and harmony. Seeing such conditions, the world does not remind silent. It means, religious people at the International and Regional takes steps persuasive that is by holding meetings with inter-religious dialogue (inter-faith) for a discussion and find solutions of the problems that arise in the middle of cosmopolitan community by promoting the agenda of humanity, justice, and equality, and peace locally and regionally
Contextualizing Kymlicka’s Multicultural Citizenship in Surabaya
Full text linkSebagai kota terbesar kedua di Indonesia, Surabaya memiliki daya tarik yang luar biasa dalam proses urbanisasi, yang secara tidak langsung telah menanamkan benih-benih keragaman di kota ini. Warga kota Surabaya adalah penduduk yang egaliter dan terbuka. Selain penduduk asli yang biasa disebut arek soerabaya, ada juga penduduk pendatang yang berasal dari Madura, Arab, Cina, Ambon, Bugis, dan Melayu. Kelompok-kelompok ini hidup berdampingan secara damai di Surabaya. Artikel ini berangkat dari riset yang penulis lakukan melalui wawancara dengan penduduk lokal, kaum migran, politisi dan intelektual. Riset tersebut bermuara pada pertanyaan bagaimana para pendatang bisa bertahan hidup di Surabaya dalam nuansa keragaman dan keberagaman; serta bagaimana mereka melihat program-program pemerintah seputar multikulturalisme. Dengan merujuk pada konsep multicultural citizenship dari Kymlicka, artikel ini menunjukkan bahwa meski terkesan “damai,†terdapat resistensi antara penduduk lokal dan migran khususnya yang berkaitan dengan politik dan ekonomi. Sebagian kelompok mayoritas, penduduk lokal termarjinalkan dalam urusan politik dan ekonomi akibat kalah bersaing dengan penduduk migran yang ada di Surabaya. Hal ini semakin diperparah dengan program festival multikulturalisme pemerintah Surabaya yang terkesan seremonial tahunan tanpa melibatkan penduduk lokal
Islam dan Kekerasan terhadap Perempuan
Full text linkReligious understanding of the texts and doctrines towards women issues has not come to the final. Cultural construction and professional religious interpretation toward religious scripts also contribute on the woman issues especially in relation with unbalanced relationship between man and woman. Many religious interpretations then put women in secondary level with men as the result that they, women, are seen as men belonging that can be authoritatively subjected as much as men wants, including of violence. Up to this time, the domestic violence happens with regards to the women as the victims, and it is supposed that religious understanding is taking part in contributing the “act of violence†towards women’s existence. So that religion, in this case, remains problematic in shaping the social construction of men and women relations. This article aims to explore more causes of women’s violence and attempts to scrutinize religious interpretation on the texts of gender and family issues. This article argues that religious institution and religious education have big role to shape the contemporary religious understanding towards women’s life; and both religious institution and religious education may also become the indispensable foundation of empowering woman by giving new interpretation of the women public space
Dinamika Wacana Pluralisme Keagamaan di Indonesia
Full text linkReligious plurality in Indonesia context is interesting enough to be discussed. The plurality of culture, race, ethnic and religion constitutes a social condition that often becomes disintegrated major. Pluralism in the context of religion such as Islam has a pivotal role in dealing with such issue. In Islam, all religions and beliefs are believed to have the right of life. But for a certain group, this matter is considered as a faith destruction of Muslim. This article discusses the response from both internal and external groups of Islam concerning with the understanding of Islam to religious pluralism which is currently considered as a trend of globalization and modernization—apparently raises ideological suspicions or even new ideologies. Therefore, an effort to re-actualization of meanings and values into the frame of Islamization, SIPILIS (secularism, pluralism and liberalism) in Indonesian context is necessary. In addition, re-interpretation of the term “religious pluralism†will be more oriented to an attempt to search mutual understanding of different cultures, religions, races and tribes. In this context, the social construction method and socio-historical, moral ethics, and theological-philosophical approach under the central issues within a religious pluralism spectrum such as global theology, universal theology, universal friendship, culminated tradition, private faith, relative truth, the real, relative truth, universality and Humanism of Islam are very essential