scholarly journals Constructing Third Space In A Multi-Religious Society: Interreligious Relations In Kalimantan Tengah, Indonesia

KALAM ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 353-372
Author(s):  
Asep Iqbal ◽  
Desi Erawati ◽  
Abdul Qodir ◽  
Khairil Anwar
Keyword(s):  
Third Space ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Not Given ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Local Religion ◽  
The Third ◽  
Interfaith Relations ◽  
Study Find ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Interreligious Relations

A growing body of literature has given shape and voice to the emerging field of interreligious studies. However, most of related studies have tended to focus on the relations between religious communities in Western countries. The scholars have not given adequately attention to the richness and complexity of the relations among different religious communities in Asian region and possibility of theoretical and practical contributions to interreligious relations. This article seeks to analyzes the interreligious relations among different religious communities in Indonesia based on data generated through interviews with Muslim, Christian and Kaharingan communities in Indonesia. Employing the concept of Third Space, this article focuses on the performance of interreligious relations between Muslims, Christians, and the adherents of local religion of Kaharingan in Kalimantan Tengah province, Indonesia. It explains the the third space issue in the narrative of interfaith relations and the third space in the practice of interreligious relations in the region. This study find that the diverse religious communities in Indonesia practice a peaceful and co-existence life, which is strongly inspired and driven by shared particular social-cultural contexts of rich treasures and precious tradition of cultural heritage in the forms of Indonesian communalism and community spirit. It concludes that the diverse religious communities create “third spaces”, as common grounds between them which are shared at individual, institutional and societal levels.

scholarly journals The Relation of Muslim and Christian Community: Hermeneutic Contribution to Create the Third Space in the Communities

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 233-252
Author(s):  
Eric D. Coblentz
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Third Space ◽  
Religious Conflict ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Social Conflicts ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
The Third ◽  
Middle Way ◽  
The Social ◽  
Hermeneutic Approach

One of the social conflicts caused by the false understanding of religion often occurs, making horizontal and vertical conflicts in social life. Nevertheless, there is a way to resolve the inter-religious conflict called a ‘third space community.’ This article seeks to answer how we should interpret Jesus in two different religious communities (Islam and Christian)? With Martin Buber’s hermeneutic approach to ‘I-Thou,’ this paper describes an understanding of the “term of religions” to interpret each other in the two religious communities. Multicultural communication as a form of interpretation of the “third space” is a middle way to resolve conflicts. Thus, this paper is expected that the understanding of Jesus is not a source of division but rather a limitation of religion, culture, and horizons for its adherents. Referring to Gadamer’s concept, a one-sided understanding will prevent each society (Islam and Christian) from interpreting Jesus. Afterward, this article suggests that the understanding of Jesus let the community fully interpret it.

scholarly journals The Qur'an and Inter-Religious Relation Models in Contemporary World

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-206
Author(s):  
Kurdi Fadal
Keyword(s):  
Religious Communities ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Interfaith Relations ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Interreligious Relations ◽  
Period Model ◽  
Research Show

This article examines interreligious relations during the Qur’anic revelation and its contextualization in the contemporary world. This library research, focusing on ‘Ali Jum’ah’s thought, utilizes a qualitative with a historical approach. The results of this research show that the Qur'an was revealed in four models of Muslim and non-Muslim relations: the Meccan period model; the Habasyah phase, the first migration of some Muslims and as a minority under non-Muslims authority; and two Medina periods (the Early and the Latter) when Muslims become a majority who lived together peacefully with other religious communities under Muslim authority. Ali Jum'ah uses nasā’ as a theory to contextualize the four models of interfaith relations. According to him, each of these models can be applied and developed in contemporary Muslims, especially in the Indonesian context, based on the principles of the Qur'an.

scholarly journals Diplomatic Interreligious Dialogue in the Framework of Interreligious Relations

2021 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 129-140
Author(s):  
S. V. Melnik ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
General Description ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
The Third ◽  
Interreligious Relations ◽  
Low Efficiency

The article examines the practice of interaction between the heads of religious communities which is referred to as “diplomatic interreligious dialogue”. One of the most common forms of the manifestation of diplomatic dialogue is participation of religious leaders in a variety of interreligious summits and conferences. The first part of the article briefly describes main types of interreligious dialogue: polemical, cognitive, peacemaking and partner ship. The second part gives a general description of diplomatic interreligious dialogue that can be considered as one of a type of peacemaking dialogue. The third part of the article analyzes several critical arguments in relation to diplomatic dialogue: this form of communication cannot be called a dialogue in the true sense; predominance of secular discourse; low efficiency. The author has come to the conclusion that diplomatic dialogue occupies its niche in the system of interreligious relations. And it is incorrect to evaluate diplomatic dialogue from the point of view of other types of interreligious dialogue that pursue different goals and are based on different principles.

Duoethnography: A Polytheoretical Approach to (Re)Storing, (Re)Storying the Meanings That One Gives

2020 ◽  
pp. 396-423
Author(s):  
John Joseph Norris ◽  
Richard D. Sawyer
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Third Space ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Core ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Core Elements ◽  
Feminist Inquiry

This chapter summarizes the advancement of duoethnography throughout its fifteen-year history, employing examples from a variety of topics in education and social justice to provide a wide range of approaches that one may take when conducting a duoethnography. A checklist articulates what its cofounders consider the core elements of duoethnographies, additional features that may or may not be employed and how some studies purporting to be duoethnographies may not be so. The chapter indicates connections between duoethnography and a number of methodological concepts including the third space, the problematics of representation, feminist inquiry, and critical theory using published examples by several duoethnographers.

scholarly journals Whose Golden Age? Some Thoughts on Jewish-Christian Relations in Medieval Iberia

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Ray
Keyword(s):  
Religious Identity ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Social Standing ◽  
Medieval Period ◽  
Spanish History ◽  
Jewish Communities ◽  
Interfaith Relations ◽  
Medieval Iberia

The medieval period in Spanish history has alternately been cast as a Golden Age of interfaith harmony and an example of the ultimate incompatibility of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish communities.  In this essay, I suggest that a better way to understand interfaith relations in medieval Iberia is to think about these religious communities in less monolithic terms.   With regard to Jewish-Christian relations in particular, factors such as wealth, social standing, and intellectual interests were as important as religious identity in shaping the complex bonds between Christians and Jews. 

scholarly journals Non-formal spaces of socio-cultural accompaniment: Responding to young unaccompanied refugees – reflections from the Partispace project

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 305-322
Author(s):  
Janet Batsleer ◽  
Björn Andersson ◽  
Susanne Liljeholm Hansson ◽  
Jessica Lütgens ◽  
Yağmur Mengilli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Third Space ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Local Regulation ◽  
The Third ◽  
Educational Spaces ◽  
The Uk

Drawing on research in progress in the Partispace project we make a case for the recognition of the importance of non-formal spaces in response to young refugees across three different national contexts: Frankfurt in Germany; Gothenburg in Sweden; and Manchester in the UK. It is argued that recognition of local regulation and national controls of immigration which support climates of hostility makes it important to recognise and affirm the significance of non-formal spaces and ‘small spaces close to home’ which are often developed in the ‘third space’ of civil society and arise from the impulses driven by the solidarity of volunteers. In these contexts it is important that practices of hospitality can develop which symbolically reconstitute refugees as hosts and subjects of a democratic conversation, without which there is no possible administrative solution to the refugee crisis. It is essential that educational spaces such as schools, colleges and universities forge strong bonds with such emergent spaces.

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