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Menemukan Allah: Tantangan Menjadi Saint Queer di Tengah Arus Konservatisme Agama

Laporan Wednesday ForumWednesday Forum Report Tuesday, 22 November 2022

Menemukan Allah: Tantangan Menjadi  Saint Queer di Tengah Arus Konservatisme Agama

Refan Aditya – 22 November 2022

Mengerasnya konservatisme agama di Sulawesi Selatan menjadi ancaman bagi komunitas Bissu sebagai pelestari dan pemimpin agama leluhur Bugis. Yang paling kentara adalah upaya untuk melucuti status gender nonbiner para Bissu. Namun, di tengah masifnya konservatisme tersebut, para Bissu tak berhenti mencari dan menggali ruang-ruang spiritualitas dalam dirinya dan tempatnya di masyarakat Bugis saat ini. Dinamika itu menjadi bahasan Wednesday Forum, 12 Oktober 2022 bertajuk “Queer Spiritual Space in Bissu Community South Sulawesi: In Search of Allah”. Diskusi ini disajikan oleh Petsy Jessy Ismoyo yang merupakan mahasiswa ICRS dan pengampu program studi Hubungan Internasional di Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana.

Lived Eco-Religion: How social movements in Indonesian local communities respond to environmental crises in creative ways

Berita Wednesday ForumWednesday Forum News Tuesday, 22 November 2022

Lived Eco-Religion: How social movements in Indonesian local communities respond to environmental crises in creative ways

Wednesday Forum – 23 November 2022

How do religions respond to environmental crises? Beyond debates about religion as destroying or saving the planet, we present a synthetic review of 244 qualitative studies (some written by CRCS/ICRS alumni) of 208 environmental social movements operating at the local community level in Indonesia between 1990 and 2022. Using this data, we present a conceptual model for how environmental movements employ creative adaptation of religious beliefs and practices to motivate changes in environmental behavior. We share three findings and their implications: 1) high levels of synthesis between official religions, adat systems and local wisdom; 2) contextual factors that directly influence environmental movements to adopt blended environmental and lived religious responses; 3) intense contestation within local communities shaping the creative process.

Planetary Thinking in a Post-Human World

Berita Wednesday ForumWednesday Forum News Wednesday, 9 November 2022

Planetary Thinking in a Post-Human World

Wednesday Forum – 09 November 2022

In his book, The Darker Side of Western Modernity, Walter Mignolo outlines several options for a future of the planet beyond the western, modern colonial world. He spends most of that book talking about the decolonial option, with only fragments spent on what he calls “the spiritual option.” In brief, the spiritual option is about decolonizing religious traditions through more embodied spiritualities that focus people on the human and more-than-human communities in which they live. As such, the spiritual option has affinities with both “liberation” style religious strands and with animisms found in indigenous communities. In addition, recent scholarship around “New Materialisms” also suggests that there is agency and value in the rest of the natural world: much like in animist traditions, everything on the planet is alive, acts, and is acted upon. In my contribution to this discussion, I make an argument for the ethics of a post-human world from animist and new materialist perspectives. Such an argument depends on something like a planetary spirituality, which may be a supplement to Mignolo’s “spiritual option.”

Divorce and Muslim Women’s Empowerment in Indonesia

Berita Wednesday ForumWednesday Forum News Monday, 31 October 2022

Divorce and Muslim Women’s Empowerment in Indonesia

Wednesday Forum – 02 November 2022

Muslim family law is a crucial determinant of women’s rights in many Muslim settings. Muslim family law is commonly interpreted to stipulate a family structure in which husbands are breadwinners and household leaders while wives are responsible for the domestic realm and may be expected to obey their husbands. However, gender norms and practices in majority Muslim societies have changed, with increasing numbers of women pursuing higher education and careers. This study examines Indonesian Muslim women’s divorce narratives during a period of increasing divorce cases. I find that by facilitating women’s exit from marriages, Indonesia’s Islamic courts accommodate women’s changing expectations of marriage. The case of Indonesia illuminates how a religious legal system may have unintended consequences, promoting women’s higher aspirations for marriage and potentially shifting gender norms more broadly.

Konversi Agama dalam Tarik Ulur Universalitas dan Relativitas HAM

PerspectivePerspective Tuesday, 25 October 2022

Konversi Agama dalam Tarik Ulur Universalitas dan Relativitas HAM

Vikry Reinaldo Paais – 25 Oktober 2022

Praktik konversi agama atau berpindah agama cenderung menjadi isu sensasional dan hangat diperbincangkan. Fenomena ini terjadi di setiap kalangan, entah itu figur publik—seperti para artis dan elite politik, masyarakat awam, terlebih lagi jika dilakukan oleh petinggi agama. Tak pelak, isu konversi agama menuai pro dan kontra. Beberapa mendukungnya atas nama hak asasi manusia (HAM).  Ada pula yang menampiknya atas dalil ketidaktaatan dan pembangkangan terhadap ajaran agama. Padahal, tak bisa dimungkiri, konversi agama akan selalu ada sepanjang agama-agama itu eksis.

What’s Wrong with Our Theology: Towards a Contextual Epistemology

Berita Wednesday ForumWednesday Forum News Tuesday, 25 October 2022

What’s Wrong with Our Theology: Towards a Contextual Epistemology

Wednesday Forum – 26 October 2022

Theologies of the major religions have over the centuries so colluded with empires that untangling its first principles from those that legitimize the oppressions of empires is difficult, if not impossible. This is a Christian theologian’s reflection on an alternative theological epistemology, based primarily on the principles proposed by Paulo Freire more than fifty years ago. Is it too late for religions, or can they listen to, learn from and live in deep solidarity with those in the margins? An innovate approach – Interfaith Peacemaker Teams – that combine the best practices of interreligious dialogue and Alinskian (as in Saul Alinsky) community organizing proposes an answer.