Perspektif Kim Knott tentang Insider-Outsider dalam Studi Agama
Abstrak: Contemporary
discourse of religious studies indicates many fields of study in understanding
religion. Religious spectrum not only relates with credo, faith, worldview,
theology and etcetera but expanding in various aspect (cultural and historical
side). The cultural and historical aspects in a certain point give some
problems in academic field. Kim Knott based on those matters tries to give a
new shot in analyzing religion based on the issued aspects. Looking at how
complicated is it Kim Knott maps it into two religious approaches. First is the
hardship situation to make such a clear gap between religious and not-religious
territory and second is the complicated problem in relation with religion as
tradition and religion as faith. This article elucidates a viewpoint of Kim
Knott as a “new outline” on religious studies. Knott attempts to eliminate the
subjective intentions by using two basic perspectives of methodology: insider
and outsider. He has classified the concept of inter-connection between social
and religious role into four elements: pure participant, researcher as
participant, participant as researcher and pure researcher. However, this
concept remains an important problem concerning to standard of objectivity. Knott’s
approach tries to place researcher on the margin of appreciation as a border
line between insider-outsider.
Penulis: Sujiat Zubaidi Saleh
Kode Jurnal: jpperadabanislamdd140349
