Kate Wright | CRCS | Voices from America
Sejak tujuh belas tahun lalu, CRCS telah terhubung erat dengan para akademisi Amerika Serikat. Beberapa pelopor studi antaragama dari Amerika, seperti John Raines, Mahmud Ayoub, dan Paul Knitter, telah membantu dalam pendirian dan pengembangan CRCS. Banyak dosen tamu dan para pengajar bahasa Inggris dari Amerika telah mengajar di CRCS. Lebih dari 30 alumni CRCS kini juga telah melanjutkan studinya, untuk tingkat MA atau PhD, di universitas-universitas Amerika. Sehubungan dengan pelbagai kabar politik pascapemilu Amerika, juga fenomena yang serupa di negara-negara lain di Eropa dan Asia, kami mengundang para kolega dan relasi kami dari Amerika untuk menuliskan pandangan atau refleksi personal mereka di situs web CRCS. Artikel berikut ini, yang ditulis Kate Wright, adalah yang pertama untuk seri “Voices from America”. Versi orisinal dari tulisan ini dalam bahasa Inggris dapat dibaca di sini.

Kate Wright | CRCS | Voices from America
The United States and Indonesia are both plural societies that struggle to understand how to live together in diversity and with the meaning of pluralism itself.  From its beginnings seventeen years ago, CRCS has had strong ties with American academia. Pioneers in inter-religious studies from the U.S., including John Raines, Mahmud Ayoub and Paul Knitter, were present at our founding and have been followed by a number of visiting lecturers who have stayed for a few weeks, months, or years, and by generations of English teachers. In addition, more than thirty CRCS alumni/ae have continued their studies for MA and PhD degrees in American universities. As we followed the news of the U.S. election within the context of the anti-pluralist turns across Asia and Europe, we wanted to know what our American friends are thinking and so we invited them to contribute their reflections to this page. This is the first of the Voices from America series. To read the Indonesian translation of this article, click here. To read the second of the series, click here.