Islam ad Modernity: A Construction According to Bellah's and Rahman's Thought
Penulis/Author
Prof. Dr. Rr. Siti Murtiningsih, S.S., M.Hum (1)
Tanggal/Date
2016
Kata Kunci/Keyword
Abstrak/Abstract
All nations are involved in modernization process. The manifestation of the process is at first seen in eighteenth century England and well known as industry revolution. The indication of the revolution is since then widespread across the world. The spread is considered as normal that there is no more space for a nation not to be involved in the process.
Modern people have their own varying beliefs in themselves and in the modern era. There are those who feel liberated from their tradition and praise the change. There are also those who believe that modern people are extracted from their traditional values and way of life. They worry that the change results in the loss of the value of their prior social life. They refer to an active consumer society as the evidence of the impact of modern society. Its clearly observed in the every changing life style of the consumers as a result of the industry of mass communication.
The brief paper represents an attempt to find the correlation between Islam and modernity referring to the two articles by Robert Bellah entitled "Islamic Tradition and The Problem of Modernization" and Fazlur Rahman in his book "Islam and Modernity". It is organized in four following section : introduction, the historical background of modernity, a descriptive analysis of Bella's and Rahman's thoughts on islam and modernity.
