Ahmad Munjid’s article “Thick Islam and Deep Islam” (The Jakarta Post, Aug. 16, 2009) was responded to by Hilman Latief’s “Cosmopolitan Muslims: Urban vs. Rural Phenomenon” (the Post Aug. 29, 2009). Although both Munjid and Hilman shared their ideas on the more ob[...]
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Local Culture, Local Wisdom & Local Stupidity
Many people assume local culture is the symbol of backward, barriers for development and in contrast to modern culture. To be a modern (rational, engaged in secular institutions, and disenchanted of the world) one should drop all that connected to the local. Through their purified wings, world relig[...]
Modernity, Religious Change and Spiritual Revolution
Although Marx, Freud, and Weber had predicted religions would progressively disappear from society for the expansion of modern institutions, we watch not only religions that reject to away from society but also see the emergence of novel sensibility of religions and spirituality in late modernity. â[...]
Islamic Cleric among Indonesian “Modernist” Muslims
…it would be a problematic to generalize the norm of Islamic Clerics among Indonesian Modernist Muslims. The ‘faces’ of modernist Muslims are changing just as other institutions where polarization is one of the characteristics. The clerical authority among reformist Muslim in Indonesia is [...]
July 24th, 2009 - 3:24 pm § in English, Kabar/News
Viva Religious Studies
…closing the department on the reason to save the budget is really an unwise decision. The argument that religion can be studied alone or attached to other departments, not in single body department reflecting inter-religious relationship, means the luck of comprehension on the important of m[...]
Recreational-therapeutic Spirituality vs. Religious Moral
Some people are worry about the burgeoning of spiritual centers in urban areas. They question why do people living in a modern city drifted by rationalism, individualism and secular point of view participate in spiritual groups considered as irrational and backwards? Does not it reflect the ambig[...]
