Kemajemukan tidak bisa dihindari, seolah-olah itu adalah takdir manusia. Tetapi manusia sendiri seringkali tidak dapat mentolerir pluralitas ini. Karena intoleransi semacam inilah perang, intimidasi, pengusiran, konflik, dan kekacauan terjadi sepanjang waktu. Padahal, kemajemukan ini merupakan fenomena yang tak terbantahkan. Kita hidup dalam kemajemukan dan kita secara aktif atau pasif terlibat dalam dan bagian dari kemajemukan ini. Kemajemukan melekat pada semua gerakan spasial kita. Oleh karena itu, penerimaan dan eksistensi dengan orang lain atau hidup berdampingan dengan asumsi kesetaraan dalam bingkai kemajemukan adalah kebutuhan yang sangat penting. Karena kemajemukan ini selayaknya menjadi alat relasi bagi manusia untuk hidup damai dengan sesamanya. Namun demikian, agama dalam kehidupan masyarakat yang sebenarnya bisa menjadi fenomena yang sepenuhnya saling bertentangan. Seperti banyak agama lain, Islam juga sering menjadi penyebab konflik. Oleh karena itu, penting untuk melihat lagi apa pandangan Islam yang sebenarnya tentang pluralisme ini langsung dari sumbernya yang sah (yaitu, Al-Qur'an dan Sunnah). Kajian analisis tekstual ini dapat dijadikan pegangan bagi para tokoh Islam yang bergulat sehari-harinya dengan permasalahan kemajemukan di berbagai level pergaulan masyarakat.

Muslim communities in the village facing the COVID-19 Pandemic attempts to find refuge from the plague and hope for survival. However, this led to more caution, which may lead to xenophobia. Via ethnography, this study unmasks the xenophobic attitude. This research discusses the root causes of panic in the community so that remedies can be implemented. The research attempts to explain, from a socio-anthropological viewpoint, how people and religious groups in the village perceive the pandemic of COVID-19 based on their belief in their faith and in the science. The research takes place in Cigagak village, an area of approximately 7000 m2 on the outskirts of Bandung of West Java of Indonesia. This study examines the selected respondents (20 respondents as the samples) from about 190 inhabitants (as the population) who had close ties to managing places of worship (mosques) and public places. This study utilises a collaborative self-ethnographic method and qualitative analysis. The influence of COVID-19 has moved to new exclusive and disintegrating practices from the inclusion-cohesive religious tradition. Therefore, this study tries to find out ways on how to reduce exclusive perception and religious practices to a minimum level and how to disappear xenophobia. Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic, inclusive awareness and actions were re-established, and even social cohesiveness was fostered. This study concludes that in its deep conviction nature, theology can change exclusive behaviour to be inclusive if it is based on the religious principles that are raised in response to human events. In this case, the Muslim community in a village can change the fear of COVID-19 pandemic to be a reducer of the panic based on the support of the religious doctrines.Contribution: This article used a collaborative self-ethnography with a religious socio-anthropological viewpoint. This study could help to solve social problems through theological convergence in Islamic milieu, especially that of the government’s formal Islamic organisation and organic Islamic leaders of the society.

Melalui analisa kritis dan kajian fenomenologis, penulis dengan jelas dapat melihat konsep Asad mengenai tafsir Al-Qur’an. Diakui bahwa dalam mengidentifikasi prinsip-prinsip Islam mengenai negara dan pemerintahan, Asad hanya mendasarkannya pada teks Al-Qur’an dan Sunnah yang merupakan syariah Islam yang nyata dan abadi. Karena hal ini, ia mengeluarkan fikih dan lebih luas lagi segala sesuatu dan aktifitas yang tertinggal yang tidak dispesifikkan oleh Pembuat hukum (Allah dan Rasulnya) – baik perintah maupun larangan dalam hubungannya dengan Nash - seharusnya tidak dianggap sebagai hal yang mubah dalam pandangan syariah dan oleh karena itu menuntut ijtihad (pemikiran yang mandiri).

This study discusses religious explanations as a form of communication behavior among public relations officers at Pakuwon General Hospital, Sumedang. Here discussed how the adaptation of a hospital to the times, including an outbreak of a disease, such as Covid-19. With a qualitative approach and descriptive method, it is known that the hospital not only meets the health needs of patients, but also as a place of calm will be anxious about health problems. Due to the strong religious attitude, the religious explanation from the Public Relations also always accompanies the logic of explanation to patients, including about Covid-19. The need for existence is a major need during epidemics, where health and safety needs affect each other. The need for humanistic concern is the most important of the needs of interconnection; Interpersonal and family needs also increase. Here the religious explanation plays an important role because the society faced is also a religion-based society, namely Islam as the majority religion of Sumedang residents. It was found that the existence, linkages, and growth in clinical nurses need to coexist. Religious explanation is very helpful to meet the information needs so that communication between the hospital and the families of COVID-19 Patients Under Supervision (PDP) can be felt properly.

This Article gives some remarks on the history of Indianization in Indonesian archipelago in me remote history. The illustration includes bow this process of Indian influences grew and developed, both in the palaces and the societies. Given this remark the writer comes to the projection on how natural this process was. By reflecting the past the writer is sure that the plurality of religions and cultures in Indonesia is a kind of destiny to be faced peacefully in order to keep the harmony in the nation's social life.

This study focused on the information literacy among the students of Islamic boarding school (santri) in their learning processes. The purpose of this study describes how the information literacy skills of the students are developed and how to make the students become literate to information individually. This study used a qualitative approach with a case study design. Information literacy in this study was viewed from three aspects, namely: realizing the need of information, retrieving the source of information and utilizing the content of information. The findings from the field indicate that many students know the ways to explore and utilize the information they need. However, the access to get information at schools were very limited. The pupils can only get additional information from the internet on computers (PC) in the computer lab. However, they maximized this limited access to explore and utilize the technology of information in their learning process.

This study examines the politics of information within organizations or groups of traditional medical practitioners in West Bandung Regency of West Java Province. The political process of information here includes the activities of how the government implements information policies in relation to traditional medicine. The study also learned how traditional medicine groups respond to public policy on traditional medicine. The method used is qualitative with data collection technique through observation, interview, documentation, and literature study. The results show that there is local politics of information distribution activity in West Bandung society marked by the existence of the managers of traditional medicine, patients, the government with its regulations, and other politics of information distribution activities that led to the maintenance of science and traditional medical services. It is clear that the main reason for the politics of information to exist was economic.

This article suggests that social media and public spaces in contemporary Indonesia play an essential role as a context for Islamic ideologisation by developing social mobilisation methods and transforming its ideology and culture. This socio-phenomenological study highlights the historical and social processes that underlie pious youth’s rise in an Indonesia’s contemporary urban space, for example, Bandung. The Hijrah [Migrating] Youth Community is an Islamic movement based on mosques and social media such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube to migrate Hijrah to a better life. This study draws on the forms of articulation culture that emerged from the ideals of the revival and reinvention of Islam in the materiality of secular popular culture. The religious activities of Hijrah youth may reduce the disorders of young people, however since the young are rebellious, extreme religious activities may also arise from the community. Thus, different parties, especially parents, the Bandung City government and other social institutions must supervise the development of the youths’ life based on religious parties.Contribution: This study describes the operation of a youth religious movement, which tries to overcome the problem they usually face, namely juvenile delinquency. This study can develop research patterns that can analyse social phenomena and and apply them to policy consideration.