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Social ethics in inter-religious interaction

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Siregar, Ferry Muhammadsyah
Noor, Nina Mariani
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Social ethics
Interreligious relations
Indonesia
Religions--Relations
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Social ethics
Religious pluralism
Religious ethics
Comparative religion and interreligious dialogue
Asian theologies
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Focus Series
Interreligious Dialogue
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/223561
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Abstract
It seems impossible to think of religion’s contribution to the development of social ethics when religion is practiced in a space and time where it is in its ostensibly exclusive form. In the last few years, the Indonesian space has been letting out an ambiance of presenting a closed understanding of religious guidance to followers who adhere to it with minimum wiggle space for the “goodness” of God’s guidance to embrace the people out there. Generosity to contribute a part of religious tradition to another group, on the one hand, is held back by the spirit of differentness and history of enmity, while on the other, the willingness to acquire from the neighbouring treasure-trove is obstructed by the concern of tainting the “holy” teaching of religion itself. In addition to that, how shared living spaces which overlaps in various issues with an individual and/ or religious followers living spaces is established so that all the people in a diverse society as Indonesia can live life freely, safely, and peacefully, as well as advance their self-potential without fear or prejudice from other members. Notions of this matter can be obtained from religious sources, although this is achieved sometimes by developing a certain exegesis of religious principles, that is through the creation of a wholly new exegesis or acquiring a dated source aged by history. Aside from technical knowledge in reading of religious text, this effort takes courage. The writings provided to the reader of this book, although collected under the title “Social Ethics in Inter Religious Interaction”, consist of nine articles which could be further specified into three categories: five writings regarding religious theme of particular traditions, three writings referring to social theme which take on thoughts from religious traditions, and one writing discussing public space where religion plays a role as a quite determining factor.
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Translation of:Etika sosial dalam interaksi lintas agama, Globethics.net, 2014 (ISBN 978-2-940428-82-3).
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2015
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9782889310562
9782889310555
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10.58863/20.500.12424/223561
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Generic deed (CC BY-NC-ND 2.5)
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