This paper intends to explore the possibility that phenomenology can be used as one of the foundations of scientific epistemology of Islamic education management. Scientific management of Islamic education would not be sufficient if only positivistic approached scientifically. Behaviors that contain messages of moral, theological and ideological embraced by managers, implementers and users of Islamic educational institutions are very complicated. To be able to describe these phenomena with a reasonable and until the deeply meaning (eidos), so phenomenological approach is needed. This approach can be used as a basis in developing others the science of Islamic education management. The science of Islamic education management can have a number of scientific fields (The science of diniyyah, madrassas, Islamic schools, and Islamic higher education management) and gave birth to a number of expertise (administrative staff, headmaster and superintendent at the madrasah level).
Hegel claims famously in his Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion that “Philosophy is itself, worship; it is religion.” In this essay, it is argued that such a claim could also have been uttered by Husserl – with the much expanded sense that authentic philosophy is equivalent to phenomenology. It is especially present in what might be named Husserl’s “proto‐Crisis” texts of the early 1920s. In his call for “renewal” not only of philosophy and science, but culture in general, we see this entanglement of philosophy and religion. In the first part of the essay, it is shown that Husserl’s “critique” of religious tradition is parallel to his critique of the “garbs of ideas” that forms the incomplete “rationality” of the natural sciences. In the second part, attention is given to Husserl’s more positive description of the core rationality that can be found in the religious “lifeworld,” and how this allows him to see phenomenology itself as analogous to religious life. In the conclusion, some of the positive aspects, and also some of the dangers, of Husserl’s analogy between phenomenology and religion are addressed.
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