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Melintas An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion
ISSN : 08520089     EISSN : 24068098     DOI : https://doi.org/10.26593
The aim of this Journal is to promote a righteous approach to exploration, analysis, and research on philosophy, humanities, culture and anthropology, phenomenology, ethics, religious studies, philosophy of religion, and theology. The scope of this journal allows for philosophy, humanities, philosophy of culture and anthropology, phenomenological philosophy, epistemology, ethics, business ethics, philosophy of religion, religious studies, theology, dogmatic theology, systematic theology, theology of sacrament, moral theology, biblical theology, and pastoral theology.
Articles 781 Documents
Re-Interpreting The Catholics’ Images of the Church in Java – Part II Tedjoworo, Hadrianus
MELINTAS An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion (MIJPR) Vol. 28 No. 2 (2012)
Publisher : Faculty of Philosophy, Parahyangan Catholic University, Bandung

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (166.9 KB) | DOI: 10.26593/mel.v28i2.280.139-160

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This article is an endeavour to be ‘imagerially present’ among the believers in Java, and in this way, could add to the sensitivity to what is happening in the praxis of faith of the Catholics in Java. Christian faith may have caused some changes in the believers’ imagination. Catechesis on the church in Java can take many advantages from this research, considering that its outcome comprises of the church images which can be used to enhance the catechetical material. The distinction of images appears in four dimensions (the believers’ imagerial preferences, the church’s relevance, the believers’ intentions to participate and their contextual and meaningful images). This research is an opening towards further reflections about ‘imagerial catechesis’ in Java. In this eye, it prepares a necessary path for deepening the conviction that the believers’ ‘cultural’ ways of being church are an essential element in the process of doing theology with images. No less than seventeen images have surfaced during the efforts of re-imagining the church images. These ‘cultural’ and communal images are correlated with the ‘biblical’ images of the church in order to unearth the believers’ interpretations of the latter within the sociocultural contexts.
Agreed to Disagree: Freedom of Expression and Diversity Voragen, Roy
MELINTAS An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion (MIJPR) Vol. 21 No. 3 (2005)
Publisher : Faculty of Philosophy, Parahyangan Catholic University, Bandung

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Kebebasan berekspresi diperlukan agar semua warga dapat dirangkul. Terutama kaum minoritas perlu diberi peluang agar mereka dimungkinkan pula mengekspresikan dirinya di depan umum. Untuk itu dibutuhkan suatu kesepakatan terutama untuk menyikapi ketidaksepakatan. Maka netralitas Negara dan keutamaan toleransi adalah hal-hal yang layak dipertahankan dan dipahami ulang.
Jurnalisme dan Filsafat Redana, Bre
MELINTAS An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion (MIJPR) Vol. 25 No. 2 (2009)
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"Insight"
Mysticism Without Bounds: Perception of Space Chakravorty, Meera
MELINTAS An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion (MIJPR) Vol. 26 No. 1 (2010)
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The idea of silence as experience and timely is unique because silence is healing and is essential for the time in which we live. The life and facts as lived by the vachana mystics and expressed in their songs and writings can help people of today dive deeper into their life’s mission. This expression of self-mystification has marked the different and distinctive angle of our symbolic world, i.e., its mystical space, and has promoted some concrete movements aimed at transformasion in the life’s mission of the people. Before being intellectual and cultural, the revolution might have been mystical thanks to the vachana mystics who are able to provoke discussions and debates about important issues in human’s life by broadening the life’s canvas and calling the devotees to cross the boundaries of space and time. In turn, we will be led towards the writing of the history of silence as the liberating perception of space.
The Spirituality of Islamic Beauty Philips, Gerardette
MELINTAS An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion (MIJPR) Vol. 28 No. 3 (2012)
Publisher : Faculty of Philosophy, Parahyangan Catholic University, Bandung

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Anyone with the knowledge of Islamic culture knows that Islam has produced works of art and incredible architecture - Persian miniatures, the Taj Mahal, mosque, music etc. However, only a few people realize that this rich artistic heritage is rooted in a world view that underlines love and beauty. The relationship between love and beauty is quite clear. We love what we find beautiful. This article offers the meaning of beauty in Islam from the perspective of spirituality as seen in the Quran, Calligraphy, Arabesque, music, mosque, Mihrab, The Alchemy of Light, and finally the concrete expression of this beauty in the life of the human soul. The Prophet said, “God is beautiful and loves beauty.” In understanding the beauty and love in Tawhid, the Oneness of God – “There is no god but Allah,” the hope is that this paper will enable one to know the All Beautiful One - God in various manifestations. If God is beautiful, then nothing is truly beautiful but God. And if God is loving, then nothing really loves besides Allah.
THE ROLE OF PUBLIC SPACE IN BUILDING HUMANITY Subagio, Rudiyanto
MELINTAS An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion (MIJPR) Vol. 22 No. 1 (2006)
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Kualitas kemanusiaan dapat dipantau dari relasi sosial antar manusiaitu sendiri. Relasi sosial yang sering dilaksanakan secara spontan dalamRuang Publik. Ruang Publik ditingkat Urban yang memungkinkan relasi sosial tersebut, bisa berbentuk ruang terbuka, taman atau plasa, ataupun Mall (ruang tertutup) yang kini makin semarak berfungsi sebagai tempat pertemuan. Relasi kemanusiaan, itu beragam, mulai dengan relasi diri sendiri sebagai alamiah, relasi dengan orang lain dan institusi, relasi kosmikal dalam kait ruang waktu dan teori praksis dan relasi ditingkatkedalaman, spiritual. Secara kumulatip Relasi Kemanusiaan ini dapat dilihat sebagai ciri ke-utuh-penuh-an kemanusiawian itu sendiri. Pengamatan Relasi informal antar manusia dalam Ruang Publik dapat dialami sebagai studi penyadaran eksistensi kemanusiaan. Itu mentranformasikan hidup kita. Makin menjadikan kita, manusia.
LAYAR – LAYAR FILOSOFIS: Tentang Puisi, Narasi dan Diri dalam Sinema Bawono, Haryo Tejo
MELINTAS An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion (MIJPR) Vol. 25 No. 3 (2009)
Publisher : Faculty of Philosophy, Parahyangan Catholic University, Bandung

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Film can be philosophical in the sense that it leads to a profound reflexion. But philosophy can also be filmic in that the ideas are alive and imaginative. Notwithstanding such general impression, this article seeks to look at the connection between philosophy and film in a different way. On the one hand each of them has its own peculiar characteristics. On the other, if there is a possible connection at all, it should be a dialogical connection. And the connection is to be viewed in terms of their poetic and narrative relation to the self. Both film and philosophy -in different ways- are activities of converting the outer world into human inner world; both are activities of creating concept (poetic) that reconfigure again and again the narrative of the self.  
Chronicles - August 2013 Tedjoworo, Hadrianus
MELINTAS An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion (MIJPR) Vol. 29 No. 2 (2013)
Publisher : Faculty of Philosophy, Parahyangan Catholic University, Bandung

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'Chronicles' is a journal column of "MELINTAS" which contains information about the various events, congresses, conferences, symposia, necrologies, publications, and periodicals in the fields of philosophy and theology.
Ritual: An Inventive Human Symbolic Action Putranto, Eddy
MELINTAS An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion (MIJPR) Vol. 21 No. 1 (2005)
Publisher : Faculty of Philosophy, Parahyangan Catholic University, Bandung

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Ritual, dari pandangan ilmu-ilmu sosial dewasa ini, telah memperoleh penghargaannya sebagai peristiwa penciptaan. Ritual itu mempunyai daya cipta yang menyediakan ruang bagi pengkonstruksian diri clan penulisan kembali nilai-nilai. Ruang rekonstruksi ini baru menjadi efektif bila terjadi perjumpaan antara ajaran clan kepercayaan yang secara tradisional tersimpan di dalam ritual clan pengalaman sosio-historis ritualis, yakni pelaku ritual. Perjumpaan itu membuat ritual tidak lagi statis seperti tampaknya. Intervensi ritualis dengan pengalaman sosio-historisnya seolah membuat ritual senantiasa memperbaharui dirinya. Perjumpaan itu juga membuka kesempatan bagi ritualis untuk mengkonfrotasikan pengalaman sosio-historisnya dengan misteri kepercayaan yang dirayakan. Konfrotasi ini bisa menjadi benih baik bagi mekarnya transformasi individual maupun sosial. Demikianlah, daya cipta clan peranannya sebagai ruang rekonstruksi membuat ritual terkadang berbahaya, subversive.
PERSOALAN BAHASA DALAM AGAMA Sudiarja, A.
MELINTAS An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion (MIJPR) Vol. 23 No. 1 (2007)
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In his linguistic theory Ferdinand de Saussure distinguished between language in proper sense (la langue) such as English, France, Indonesian etc. and language in awider sense (la langage). Both however are systems of signs that fall into semiotics. It is in the second sense, that we can assume religion as a certain kind of language or as having proper language of its own. In the spirit of religious dialog in recent years, in which many different religions try out to communicate each other, the significance of religious language becomes apparent. It is urgent therefore, to clarify the meaning as well as the role of this language in theprocess of dialog. This article assumes that in each religions we can notice two kinds of language, which function quite differently; one is 'to express' the collective passion of the people, 'referring to' the religious reality and their experiences of it, whereas the other is 'to explicate' the meaning of that same reality, 'inducing' to discourses, in order to find proper conceptswhich will widen their comprehension of the religious notions. Only trough improving this second kind of language, which happens both in theological discourse and the study of holy scriptures, religions can improve their ability to communicate each other.