Growing Interest in Inter-Religious Study at the State Islamic University Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung

Kafil Abdillah, Dody S. Truna and Yeni Huriani

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Abstract: While global interest on Islam is growing in a number of non-Muslim countries, Muslims in Muslim-majority countries show growing enthusiasm in inter-religious studies, that includes subjects like Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, Confucianism. The Inter-Religious Study program at the State Islamic University of Bandung (UIN Bandung) shows this phenomenon with the increasing number of undergraduate students of this study program during the last 3 years. This study investigates what factors behind this phenomenon and finds that trending issues such as peace, inter-religious tolerance, moderation, inter-religious community cooperation, are among the topics that draw interest of soul-searching students--in response to the media stereotype of religious radicalism, terrorism.

Keywords: religious conflict; the IRS; conflict resolution; UIN Bandung; curriculum (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.113825

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