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Religion, Evolutionary Science and Meaning-Making: Religious Studies visits the Faculty of Biology

BeritaHeadlineNews Friday, 24 March 2017

Anang G Alfian | CRCS | News

Universitas Gadjah Mada’s Faculty of Biology invited Whitney Bauman to present his on-going project at the Biology Hall on Monday, March 6th, 2017. Students and lecturers from various faculties came to hear his lecture. His specialization on the discourse of religion, science, and nature reflects his capacity as an associate professor at the Department of Religious Studies, Florida International University, as well as author of works including Theology, Creation, and Environmental Ethics (Routledge 2009) and Religion and Ecology: Developing a Planetary Ethics (2014). A longtime friend of CRCS who has taught intersession courses more than once, he is currently working to finish his third, single-authored book with a tentative title Truth, Beauty and Goodness: Ernst Haeckel and Religious Naturalism.
In his lecture, introduced by paleontology lecturer Donan Satria Yudha as the moderator, Bauman engaged religion and science in a contemporary discussion to look for a new way of understanding each through an evolutionary perspective. This perspective of religion-science relationship was inspired by the contemporary phenomenon in which religion has gained more spaces within science.
The emphasis Bauman made in the beginning of the lecture pointed out the direction of his topic of presentation. He started how historically the notion of religion has been discussed by different perspectives from dualism and reductionism to emergence theory. Along with the continuum of religion-science relationship, he challenged to look at the relation in a new way by focusing on the German scientist Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) who formulated a new way of making sense out of the world through his studies of ecology and evolution. Bauman clearly stated his stance: “to place Haeckel’s Monism in continuity with this tradition of meaning-making.” He also emphasized that everything has undergone changes and the way we understand the relation between religion and science has always been a “relationship in constant flux.” He challenged the assumption of the previous models on religion-science relationship that views Religion and Science as two different traditions. “I argue that Religion and Science are always together, influencing one another,” Bauman continued, “there is no clear separation.”
As Bauman prefers to define “religion” through its meaning-making function, he observed that the way religion attains knowledge is also inseparable from the natural evolution perspective. Further, he explained that the relation involves not only human and nature as a traditional dichotomy but more as an interconnectedness of everything.  This view triggered questions from the audience.
One member of the audience asked a question on a human special status over the rest of nature which challenged the way certain traditions or religions view the status of humans in their scriptures. “I am not sure if humans have a special status in nature,” Bauman answered, “In fact, not only humans have culture and language; many other creatures might have them too.” Because knowledge is always in process and moves together with history and experiences, he argued that it is normal for many traditions to have different understandings of nature and the Truth.
Another question posed was about whether the first human walking on earth was the one as narrated in the scripture. Baumann referred to “Adam” as mentioned in the Genesis as its literal meaning, i.e. a creature on the earth which did not refer to any specific gender. In addition, Donan Satria Yudha said that  some Muslim scientists say that Homo sapiens may constitute the first human as mentioned in the scripture and it refers to the quality of being human in the evolution, and not to a specific figure.
The writer, Anang G Alfian, is CRCS student of the 2016 batch

Gus Mus di UGM: Tidak Ada Dikotomi Ilmu Umum dan Ilmu  Agama

ArticlesHeadlineNews Friday, 11 September 2015

S. Sudjatna | Report | CRCS
015403300_1438735159-2Salah satu tokoh ulama Indonesia, K.H. Mustofa Bisri atau Gus Mus, mengingatkan civitas akademika Universitas Gadjah Mada soal  tidak adanya dikotomi antara ilmu agama dan ilmu umum. Ia justru menekankan pada wajibnya menuntut ilmu. Menurut Gus Mus, seharusnya setiap orang memahami bahwa hukum ilmu hanyalah satu, yakni wajib, baik wajib kifayah (wajib dipelajari oleh sebagian orang saja) ataupun wajib ‘ain (wajib dipelajari oleh setiap orang). Dengan adanya kesadaran ini, maka setiap orang akan bersungguh-sungguh dalam proses belajar yang dilakukannya sebab menyadari beban tugasnya dalam mencari ilmu. Hal ini ia sampaikan dalam kuliah perdana yang diselenggarakan oleh Fakultas Kehutanan UGM, bertajuk “Ilmu yang Bermanfaat”, Kamis, 3 September 2015.
Selanjutnya ia menekankan pentingnya niat di dalam proses menuntut ilmu. Ia menjelaskan bahwa niat adalah pondasi dalam segala tindakan. Niat tidak hanya menentukan awal dan proses suatu perbuatan saat dilakukan, melainkan juga sangat menentukan bentuk akhir dari sesuatu itu. Karenanya, untuk mendapatkan ilmu yang bermanfaat, menurut Gus Mus, seorang mahasiswa haruslah memiliki niat yang baik, tulus dan ikhlas. Bukan niat yang hanya mengedepankan persoalan duniawi semata, semisal pekerjaan, kedudukan atau keuntungan dalam bentuk materi. Niat haruslah dijalin dan didasarkan pada kesadaran akan ketuhanan serta tugas kekhalifahan manusia di muka bumi. Dengan begitu, setiap penuntut ilmu akan sadar dengan tugasnya sebagai orang yang diberi pemahaman atau ilmu oleh Tuhan untuk digunakan demi kebaikan manusia dan alam.
Mengaitkannya dengan ilmu kehutanan, menurut Gus Mus Indonesia adalah salah satu negara dengan bentang hutan terluas di dunia. Karenanya, tak heran jika negeri ini didaulat sebagai salah satu paru-paru dunia. Namun sayangnya, akhir-akhir ini luas hutan di nusantara kian menyempit disebabkan eksploitasi besar-besaran yang terjadi secara kontinu, belum lagi kerusakan hutan yang kian parah di setiap tahunnya. Hal ini seolah menunjukkan ada yang salah dengan tata kelola hutan yang ada. Tentu saja, kondisi ini sangat paradoks dengan realitas yang ada bahwa setiap tahunnya sarjana alumni fakultas kehutanan terus meningkat jumlahnya, dan UGM adalah salah satu penyumbang sarjana kehutanan terbanyak saat ini. Apa yang salah dalam hal ini? Adakah ilmu yang sudah digali selama para mahasiswa kehutanan itu kuliah tidak bermanfaat?.
Selain itu, Gus Mus juga memberi perumpamaan bahwa pelajar—di dalamnya termasuk juga mahasiswa—bukanlah laiknya sebuah komputer. Pelajar berbeda dengan komputer yang hanya menampung data tanpa mampu melakukan apa pun. Karenanya, pelajar jangan seperti komputer. Pelajar haruslah sanggup menampung ilmu sekaligus mengamalkannya, memanfaatkannya. Menurut Gus Mus, jika sekiranya tidak sanggup memberi manfaat, maka setidaknya hendaklah tidak merugikan orang lain. Selain itu, sebagai manusia, pelajar hendaklah menggunakan bukan hanya otak, melainkan juga hati.
Salah satu tips menuntut ilmu yang dilontarkan Gus Mus bagi para mahasiswa adalah hendaknya berteman dengan orang shaleh. Sebab, pengaruh teman sangatlah kuat terhadap jiwa seseorang. Jika seorang mahasiswa salah berteman atau salah pergaulan, maka dapat dipastikan study-nya akan terganggu, begitu juga dengan keilmuannya. Sedangkan bagi para dosen, Gus Mus mengingatkan pentingnya mendoakan para mahasiswa agar mendapat ilmu yang bermanfaat. Ia mengingatkan, hendaklah para dosen menyadari bahwa mereka hanyalah sarana Tuhan dalam menyampaikan ilmu.
 

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For people who learn religious studies, it is comm For people who learn religious studies, it is common to say that "religion", as a concept and category, is Western modern invention. It is European origin, exported globally through colonialism and Christian mission. Despite its noble intention to decolonize modern social categories, it suffers from historical inaccuracy. Precolonial Islamic Malay and Javanese texts in the 16th and 17th century reflect a strong sense of reified religion, one whose meaning closely resembles the modern concept.

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I N S P I R A S I Secara satir, penyandang disabil I N S P I R A S I
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Human are the creature who live between the mounta Human are the creature who live between the mountain and the sea. Yet, human are not the only one who live between the mountain and the sea. Human are the one who lives by absorbing what above and beneath the mountain and the sea. Yet, human are the same creature who disrupt and destroy the mountain, the sea, and everything between. Not all human, but always human. By exploring what/who/why/and how the life between the mountain and the sea is changing, we learn to collaborate and work together, human and non-human, for future generation—no matter what you belief, your cultural background.

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R A G A Ada beberapa definisi menarik tentang raga R A G A
Ada beberapa definisi menarik tentang raga di KBBI. Raga tidak hanya berarti tubuh seperti yang biasa kita pahami dalam olah raga dan jiwa raga. Raga juga dapat berarti keranjang buah dari rotan, bola sepak takraw, atau dalam bahasa Dayak raga berarti satuan potongan daging yang agak besar. Kesemua  pengertian itu menyiratkan raga sebagai upaya aktif berdaya cipta yang melibatkan alam. Nyatanya memang keberadaan dan keberlangsungan raga itu tak bisa lepas dari alam. Bagi masyarakat Dondong, Gunungkidul, raga mereka mengada dan bergantung pada keberadaan telaga. Sebaliknya, keberlangsungan telaga membutuhkan juga campur tangan raga warga. 

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