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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 788 Documents
Eco-Philosophy dan Implikasinya dalam Politik Hukum Lingkungan di Indonesia Nurmardiansyah, Eko
MELINTAS An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion (MIJPR) Vol. 30 No. 1 (2014)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (891.668 KB) | DOI: 10.26593/mel.v30i1.1283.70-104

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Environmental crisis is rooted in a fundamental mistake of philosophical understanding or worldview (weltanschauung) on human nature, nature, and human’s place in the overall ecosystem. The solution cannot be approached only technically and partialy, but instead, in a more comprehensive-holistic way by radically changing the perspective and the nature of  human behaviour, which means, they are to be tuned in to the environmental ethics. Accordingly, human behaviour is to be conceived of and conducted in line with eco-philosophy. Its political praxis is to be implemented by way of politics of law (rechtspolitiek), politics of environmental law in particular. The politics of environmental law is the policy direction to be set by the government so as to achieve the goals and objectives in the protection and the management of the environment. This, in turn, can only be implemented if the constitution as well as the legislation is already ‘green’.
CHRISTIANIZATION IN NEW ORDER INDONESIA (1965-1998): DISCOURSES, DEBATES AND NEGOTIATIONS Narciso, Jerson Benia
MELINTAS An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion (MIJPR) Vol. 24 No. 3 (2008)
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The author offers a discourse analysis of inter-religious relationsduring the New Order (1965-1998) in Indonesia. The relationsbetween the Muslim majority and Christian minority were tense inthis period. Muslims and Christian disagreed on how to interpretthe law concerning freedom of religion and tolerance. Muslimsclaimed that Christians used foreign aid for 'Christianization' and'Westernization. Christians, on the other hand, claimed thatMuslims curtailed the freedom of religion of Christians by acts ofintolerance and violence. Meanwhile, then president Suharto triedto be seen as impartial, for he considered economic prosperitymore important than religion.
Humanisasi dan Divinisasi dalam Seni dan Ritual Heatubun, Fabianus Sebastian
MELINTAS An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion (MIJPR) Vol. 32 No. 2 (2016)
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Metaphysically speaking, human being is a homo ritualis or a ritual being, and not simply because of the need for any ritual, but because of one’s ontological structure. At the same time, human is also a homo sapiens artisticus. One’s way of being and one’s mode of thinking is always artistic. One might also say that ritual is always artistic and art is always ritualistic. In this sense ritual and art are inseparable, for ritual and art are sui generis. Both exist in the area of human experience and are in touch with cognition, affection, knowledge, action, and enjoyment. Art and ritual are the hermeneutical site of meanings and values that simultaneously become the same place to find the answers. Imagined within the realness of life, art and ritual are a field of meanings. When human beings slip away from their humanity, art and ritual become the medium to restore it. Not only can art and ritual create a balance between the physical and the mental aspects, between the body and the soul that have been dehumanised, they also can exalt human beings towards the divine level as the culmination of the humanisation process.
Chronicles - December 2006 Tedjoworo, Hadrianus
MELINTAS An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion (MIJPR) Vol. 22 No. 3 (2006)
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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.
Utopia, Heterotopia, and Mediatopia: Rethinking Foucault and Performativity in Krisna Murti’s Video Artworks Allo, Katherina; Piliang, Yasraf A.
MELINTAS An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion (MIJPR) Vol. 26 No. 1 (2010)
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As the epoch of space confronts us with its multiplicity of networks, a new architectonics of space has begun to raise its own construction. Foucault’s terminology of utopia and heterotopia has covered the delineation of the other spaces, spaces which invert, mirror, suspend, and neutralize the real spaces of society. With the propagation of moving images into the space of our daily life, every space at any given moment can turn into an image of utopia as well as a construction of heterotopia. As Foucault says, now is the epoch of space, now is the time to re-value and re-define the contemporary space we live in.
The Cultural Images of Community Life among the Catholic Sundanese and Javanese Tedjoworo, Hadrianus
MELINTAS An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion (MIJPR) Vol. 26 No. 3 (2010)
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This article is a result of an ecclesiological and catechetical survey conducted among the Catholics of two parishes in Java. Two themes were explored, namely, (1) relationship of the self and the community, and (2) sharing of experiences as an encounter of faith. These were put within the larger project to search for images from within the local cultures that  may support catechetical materials about the church. This survey was intended to open the theological discourse of the church to the local cultures without proposing particular models to the believers. It explores the sociocultural realities of the local believers without direct reference to the church. It refers to faith and religious experiences of the believers but only insofar as they are related to the people’s understanding of the self and the community. There were traces of how the believers relate themselves as cultural persons to the society as a community. Another presumption behind the themes was that sharing of faith experiences might happen through the daily conversations in the community life. These themes can corroborate the exploration of the community life among the believers in Java, since it is through the sharing of faith experiences that the people may see their community life differently. By considering faith in its broadest sense, this article wants to trace the possible cultural images that may shape the believers’ cultural preferences in living their life as church members. An emphasis will be put on the daily matters of the believers’ responses in order to collect the cultural images ‘from below’. Keywords :*Culture, *Images, *Religious community, *Sundanese, *Javanese, *church, *the believer's experience, *relationships, *local culture, *ecclesiology, *faith encounter, *cultural preference, *community life
Membaca Ulang 'Waiting for Godot' dengan Hermeneutika Paul Ricoeur Pranowo, Yogie
MELINTAS An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion (MIJPR) Vol. 31 No. 2 (2015)
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This paper presents an attempt of a philosophical exploration using Paul Ricoeur’s theory of text interpretation on Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. When viewed in a glance, Waiting for Godot does not appear much as a conceptual drama. It talks about so many things, ranging from things that sound trivial to things that smell theological. However, if one delves deeper through different interpretation, this drama is indeed intricate enough to provoke fresh insights. Its complexity is reinterpreted here insofar this drama is imagined within the genre of absurd drama. According to Ricoeur, one of the goals of interpretation is not only to understand the mind of the author behind the text, but the text itself with its circulating meanings around its interpretation, that is, within its interpretative world. The text gives rise to things for the understanding of the reader or interpreter. In the light of Ricoeur’s hermeneutics, this article attempts to reread some of the depths of Waiting for Godot. It is not so much of interpreting the intention of Samuel Beckett in writing the text as searching for different meanings in some parts of the dialogues in the text by way of engaging in its eventful discourse.
THEGOODSELF : TOWARDS THE ETHICS OF AUTHENTICITY AND SOLIDARITY IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF CHARLES TAYLOR Subianto Bunyamin, Antonius
MELINTAS An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion (MIJPR) Vol. 23 No. 3 (2007)
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Ada jurang antara aktivitas moral dengan identitas personal yang menjadi sumber inotentisitas. Salah satu akarnya adalah etika prosedural yang  berpusat pada “apa yang harus dilakukan.” Charles Taylor mengatasinyamelalui etika substantif yang berdasar pada konsep fundamental tentang “yang baik” (the good). Iamenjelaskan dimensi ontologis dari moralitas dan identitas serta menawarkan etika otentisitas, di mana identitas yang benardan aktivitas yang baik berkaitan secara ontologis. Inilah konsep etis tentang “the good self ”.
Menggali Dimensi Poetik Agama: Sumbangan Kreatif Heidegger terhadap Agama Kristiatmo, Thomas
MELINTAS An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion (MIJPR) Vol. 33 No. 3 (2017)
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Religion continues to exist despite the various attacks directed to its various elements. The secularisation thesis does not apply to the contemporary world, wherein religion proves itself to be an institution that always finds a place through the endless changes in human civilisation that  has witnessed a growing number of violence in the name of particular religious values. Heidegger’s ideas could serve as tools to unravel this pandemonium. His philosophy makes head or tail of the religion’s features that have gone awry due to the lack of mystical elements. Heidegger proposes a fresh way of understanding religion through his reflection on the significance of dwelling poetically. Drawing inspiration from Hölderlin, he reflects upon the importance of poiesis, that is, an understanding on how human beings should live out religion so that it could always be relevant and enlightening.
Re-Interpreting The Catholics’ Images of the Church in Java – Part I Tedjoworo, Hadrianus
MELINTAS An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion (MIJPR) Vol. 28 No. 1 (2012)
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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.