Islam dan Toleransi Beragama dalam Masyarakat Muslim Kanayatn Dayak di Kalimantan Barat
Abstract: The object of this
study is Islam in Dayak communities; a subject that is rarely being studied. It
tries to expose some interesting facts about Islam in these isolated
communities. Many have hitherto thought that the Dayak communities are
primitive with no particular affiliation to any formal religion. This paper
tries to show the reverse. The truth is that these communities do even have
reasonably developed view of Islam especially that which has to do the problem
of tolerance and social life. The basic premise that this paper adopts is that
a practice is form of paradigm; the way a particular society performs social
life reflects their orientation of religious understanding. Hence, although the
Dayak communities do not have paradigmatic understanding of Islam—in the
strictest sense of the word—they do nonetheless have a practical discourse that
emerge out of their unique and perhaps simple understanding of their religion.
Relevant to the study of this object is the issue of community identity and how
this issue is related to the religious identity. Hence, the paper is interested
in exposing the tension between the two identities in the context of the Dayak
communities in West Kalimantan.
Keywords: Tolerance; practical
discourse; community identity; religious identity
Penulis: Hermansyah
Kode Jurnal: jpperadabanislamdd130050
