Membingkai Peristiwa, Menggali Imaji 

Hanny Nadhirah – 17 November 2023

Bagaimana sebuah foto dapat memiliki pengaruh besar dalam membentuk pemahaman kita tentang suatu peristiwa?

Foto atau gambar yang sering kita lihat rupanya bukanlah sesuatu yang netral. Di dalamnya mengandung konstruksi makna dan kepentingan tersembunyi. Sebagai sebuah visualisasi atas peristiwa, foto berpengaruh besar pada cara kita memahami, merasakan, dan mengambil tindakan terkait peristiwa tersebut. Fenomena inilah yang Elis Zulianti Anis,  dosen Universitas Ahmad Dahlan Yogyakarta, diskusikan pada Wednesday Forum (27/09) “Picturing Power: State Media, and Religious Representation in the 2015 Sumatra Forest Fires.” Elis memaparkan temuan penelitiannya terkait publikasi foto-foto media lokal saat kebakaran hutan dan lahan (karhutla) Sumatra tahun 2015.

Dialogue Moves: Practicing Research with Amerta Movement

Wednesday Forum – 30 August 2023

I have been undertaking a fellowship that investigates how Amerta Movement practice (developed by Javanese movement artist Suprapto Suryodarmo) supports dialogue between diverse ethnic and religious communities in Indonesia. This has been done in collaboration with Samsul Maarif (CRCS, UGM), Diane Butler (Dharma Nature Time), and artists who worked closely with Pak Prapto. Engaging with CRCS has prompted me to reconsider research methodologies from my own field of dance studies and their potential contribution to religious and cross-cultural studies. In particular, the area of practice research in performing arts explores how engagement in creative practice has the potential to develop new ways of knowing. I will share how my own bodily experience and creative responses have lent themselves towards new understandings of the research enquiry on dialogue through the Amerta Movement. Finally, I consider what practice research might offer a researcher engaging in dialogue across differences, inspired by Kershaw’s call for the ‘profound challenge to established modes of knowledge production in universities that the creative impulse in practice might, at its best, always produce’ (2009, 5).

Illness as Interreligious Encounter: A Study from Religiously-Affiliated Hospitals

Wednesday Forum – 12 April 2023

Everyone, regardless of ethnicity, race, religion, and social status, is vulnerable to illness. Illness is a part of universal and inevitable of human fragility. One of main need of people who are ill, is a healthcare service which is generally provided by the hospital. Hence, illness is not only a complex medical and biological analyses that require objective evidence of malfunction at the microscopic level, but illness is also a social event. However, within hospital patients not only get healthcare service patients but that moment also potentially exposes them to greater diversity. Human encounter within hospital can be more challenging and interesting when the hospital is religiously affiliated hospital, because the religious conviction of the patient and the hospital are the basis for interreligious encounter. What kind of dynamics can occur in interreligious encounters within religiously affiliated hospitals? Can illness as human fragility and encounters within religiously affiliated hospitals strengthen interreligious relations?

Wednesday Forum, 06 October 2021. Speaker: Yanwar Pribadi, UIN Sultan Maulana Hasanuddin Banten

Monoteisme sering dianggap sebagai puncak dari pengalaman keagamaan manusia. Tak heran, dalam studi antropologi agama, monoteisme sering disandingkan dengan gerak evolusi peradaban manusia. Karenanya, keberadaaan temuan monoteisme pada masyarakat purba menjadi antitesis dalam teori evolusi agama. Akan tetapi, ada yang alpa dalam hiruk-pikuk perdebatan tersebut.

Sejak dua dekade terakhir, perjuangan dan pertarungan umat Baha'i melawan stigma kian tampak: mulai dari upaya mendapatkan hak-hak administrasi yang memadai hingga menegaskan eksistensi mereka sebagai agama independen, bukan aliran sempalan dari agama tertentu.

Wednesday Forum, 24 April 2019. Speaker: Delphine Allès is a professor of political science at Sorbonne Paris City University, France.

Notes from a CRCS’s Advanced Study of Confucianism class taught by Dr. Evi Lina Sutrisno

Liputan dari seminar Janji Perdamaian dan Masa Depan Palestina bersama Profesor Dajani Daoudi dari Al-Quds University, Yerusalem, di Fakultas Ilmu Budaya, UGM, Oktober 2018.

Berbagai Pertanyaan Seputar Beasiswa dan Pendaftaran CRCS

A. BEASISWA

In this interview, Greg Fealy revealed the rivalry and constellation that has been going on among the elites inside Nahdlatul Ulama, a religious organization in Indonesia, since 1960 up to now. Greg tried to analyze how the elite NU, from the generation of Hasbullah Wahab to Abdurrahman Wahid (Gus Dur) as captains of the organization, face the political world and the State.

Greg Fealy is a political historian based at the Australian National University (ANU); his studies focus on religious politics in Indonesia. His dissertation was about the study on the traditional Islamic party Nahdlatul Ulama and was translated to Bahasa Indonesia entitled “Ijtihad Politik Ulama: Sejarah Nahdlatul Ulama, 1952-1967 (LKiS, Yogyakarta, 2003). Some of his important works are Nahdlatul Ulama, Traditional Islam and Modernity in Indonesia (co-edited with Greg Barton, 1996).

Professor Ricklefs is a historian who is expert in Indonesia; some of his texts have been read Indonesian and Indonesian scholars. Here is an interview between a CRCS student (Hatib Abdul Kadir) with Ricklefs about the polirazation of Javanese society, starting from the beginning of Islam in the 14th century in Indonesia, the emergence of the term abangan in the 19th century, until the political constellation of religious events ant the future of religious polarization of the Indonesian people. This interview would be enjoyed more for those who had read Polarizing Javanese Society: Islamic and Other Visions (C. 1830-1930) (2007), one of Prof. Ricklefs ambitious books. Here is the interview.”

How can we live our life in a world of many convincing truth? How can a person become both a theologian and a pluralist interreligious dialoguer? The article that published here is written by Prof. Dr. Paul F. Knitter, a professor of interreligious theology at Union Theological Seminary, New York. Narrating his life experience in doing theology and as well interreligious dialogue, Prof. Paul Knitter states how love and friendship have been enabling him to undergo life of religious diversity.

As the most prominent Catholic theologian and interreligious dialoguer, he, in this article, straightforwardly and successfully brings a pluralist Christology, a discourse that tends to be avoided by many Christian interreligious theologians to be dialogued in the last century.