Triangulated Challenges to Democracy: a Critical Voice of Public Theology to Counter Fear and Escalating Polarization in Indonesia

IF 0.4 4区 哲学 0 RELIGION
Danang Kurniawan
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This article seeks to unveil the triangulated forces which challenge contemporary democracy in Indonesia. Those forces are irrational fear, the problem of likeness (like and unlike), and the grip of Leviathanic force. Indonesia’s secular yet religious democracy struggles to deal with a real polarization amongst the citizens as a consequence. The present intention is to explore a critical view of a public theology that asserts hope and ‘knowing the other’ as a viable virtue for the Christian response. Drawing on Martha Nussbaum’s view of the monarchy of irrational fear and Jürgen Moltmann’s notion of hope and faith for the sake of a practice of ‘knowing others’, the article sketches the roots of this polarization and considers how Indonesians can recover their democracy from below through daily religious engagement.
民主面临的三角挑战:以公共神学的批判性声音对抗印度尼西亚的恐惧和日益加剧的两极分化
本文试图揭示挑战印尼当代民主的三股力量。这些力量包括非理性的恐惧、相似性问题(像与不像)以及利维坦力量的控制。因此,印尼的世俗而又宗教的民主制度在努力应对公民之间的真正两极分化。本论文旨在探讨一种公共神学的批判性观点,这种观点主张将希望和 "了解他人 "作为基督教回应的一种可行美德。文章借鉴玛莎-努斯鲍姆(Martha Nussbaum)关于非理性恐惧君主制的观点和于尔根-莫特曼(Jürgen Moltmann)关于希望和信仰以实践 "了解他人 "的概念,勾勒了这种两极分化的根源,并探讨了印度尼西亚人如何通过日常的宗教参与从根本上恢复民主。
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