Vol. 2 No. 2 (2025): International Conference on Advanced Multidisiplinary Studies (IConAIS 2024)
Articles

Building Religious Awareness and Peace in Multicultural Societies: A Sociology of Religion Review

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  • Rini Setiawati,
  • Rahmat Hidayat,
  • Wawan Sopiyan
Rini Setiawati
Raden Intan State Islamic University Lampung, Indonesia
Rahmat Hidayat
An Nur Islamic University Lampung, Indonesia
Wawan Sopiyan
Bumi Silampari Islamic College Lubuklinggau, Indonesia

Published 2025-07-30

Keywords

  • Multicultural Society, Socio-Religious, Religious Awareness and Peace

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Abstract

Departing from a narrow understanding and thinking and more dogmatic scriptualist about religion will often give birth to religious applications that lean towards war and violence. The existence of religion that is presented with studies and even narrated by its presence in a narrow understanding, will often invite trust inclusive and tendency to reject the existence of other beliefs or existence. The birth of discrimination and holy wars by showing the existence of their respective beliefs will actually lead to justification and legitimization of efforts to justify the things they defend. And the deepest is if religion understood by multicultural society is only presented in the form of a form with no essence of religious existence. Multicultural society should place religion as a substantial value that is universal and tolerant. Because the obligation is that religious values need to be realized with social applications (social humanity). By creating an atmosphere that is tasamuh, tolerant, without discrimination, peace (social-religious / social piety) with efforts to unite the elements of a multicultural society that is rich in diversity. By using sociological analysis as a source of study and literature in addressing the sociological context of multicultural society and social action. And the implication of this study is that it requires that the study of sociological analysis of action and the development of application thinking on religious values must be universal, accountability, provide coolness across beliefs, more open and tolerant. This nature is a form of manifestation of religious action that must be mandatory and systematic in its fertical and horizontal relationships. Because the existence of socio-religious is an action and effort whose existence is to maintain, maintain peace in the frame of multicultural diversity.

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