In his exploration of the interaction between religion and worldwide social and cultural change, the author examines the major theories of global change and discusses the ways in which such change impinges on contemporary religious practice, meaning and influence.
Ada anggapan bahwa agama tidak mampu menggerakkan kehidupan ekonomi, lebih-lebih ekonomi kapitalis. Ini didasarkan pada pemikiran bahwa agama dan ekonomi adalah dua ranah yang memiliki titik sentral dan tujuan berbeda. Di antara keduanya, selamanya tidak akan pernah sejalan. Weber kemudian muncul dengan Die Protestan Ethik Under Giest Des Kapitalis (Etika Protestan dan Semangat Kapitalis), sebu…
"The holy man of our time, it seems, is not a figure like Gotama or Jesus or Mohammed, a man who could found a world religion, but a figure like Gandhi, a man who passes over by sympathetic understanding from his own religion to other religions and comes back again with new insight to his own. Passing over and coming back, it seems, is the spiritual adventure of our time. It is the adventure I …
Only if, with regard to the diversity of religions, there are questions about truth and falsehood do we have a problem about the pluralism of religions and the unity of truth. That problem is not concerned with preserving religious liberty, freedom of worship, and the toleration, in a particular society or in the world, of a diversity of religious institutions, communities, practices, and beli…
Buku terbitan BPK Gunung Mulia ini merupakan hasil dari pelaksanaan Seminar Agama-Agama (SAA) ke-33 oleh Persekutuan Gereja-Gereja di Indonesia (PGI) pada bulan Maret 2018 di Parapat, Sumatera Utara. Karya ini berisikan pokok-pokok pikiran dari 16 orang narasumber yang menulis 12 judul tulisan di dalamnya. Tulisan-tulisan tersebut membahas berbagai hal seputar pergulatan masyarakat adat (MA) at…
"It is no surprise that William James's philosophy continues to draw creative and critical interpretations. Ellen Kappy Suckiel's is another such reading, but one that is neither narrowly analytic nor obtusely continental in its philosophical approach. It is fair-minded, well-documented, and sprinkled with important insights and connections to other current philosophical approaches to religion."