Grounding the Teachings of Kuntowijoyo as a Prophetic Social Science as an Effort to Counteract Radicalism in Indonesia

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10.2991/assehr.k.200130.046How to use a DOI?

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science social prophetic Kuntowijoyo, radicalism

Abstract

This study analyzes the strategy in counteracting radicalism from the perspective of Kuntowijoyo’s prophetic social science. The values of Kuntowijoyo’s prophetic social science such as the values of liberation, humanization, and transcendence as an alternative way to counteract radicalism in Indonesia. The value of liberation as a human effort to be pro-active in rejecting and opposing sleaze, neglect, and injustice, so that each society has an attitude of religious tolerance based on mutual respect, respect and freedom of religion by their respective beliefs. The need to develop a humanist paradigm in religion with indications of courtesy and balance. The harmony between anthropocentric and theocentric humanism will elevate human nature itself based on the value of transcendence. Prophetic social science has a vision of resistance to oppression, oriented to science not only from reason and empiricism but also from revelation. Radical actions arise due to economic, political, ethnic, cultural, media and religious pressure from individuals, groups and even between countries. The purpose writing explains the history and development of radicalism in Indonesia, the form - the form of radicalism, the causes of radicalism, social sciences, Kuntowijoyo, as well as social sciences prophetic Kuntowijoyo strategy in countering radicalism in Indonesia.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Novita Sari
AU  - Taat Wulandari
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/02/04
TI  - Grounding the Teachings of Kuntowijoyo as a Prophetic Social Science as an Effort to Counteract Radicalism in Indonesia
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Social Science and Character Educations (ICoSSCE 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 224
EP  - 228
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200130.046
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200130.046
ID  - Sari2020
ER  -