The Social Construction of Religious Elites on Pluralism & Interreligious Dialogues in Malang- Indonesia

Abstract

The objectives of this research generally are to develop theories of scientific knowledge and social construction on religious pluralism and interreligious dialogues. How the religious elitess construct the pluralism and interreligious dialogues as a part of interreligions relationship. In conclusion, this research shows that the socio-religious formation of religious elitess in Malang is fundamentalist and moderate. Furthermore, the result of this research detail shows that the social construction of religious elites on religious pluralism is: first, according to Islam fundamentalist elites, that the construction of religious pluralism is deontic-diachronic/ non- eductionistic. According to moderate Islam, the construction of religious pluralism is normative; second, the religious attitude of Islam fundamentalist is exclusive-Islamcentric and according to elites moderate Islam is inclusiveIslamcentric in one side, and inclusivetheocentric in other side. While, the construction of religious pluralism according to Christian moderate elitess is plural; third, the pattern of relation of fundamentalist elites is co-existence, and the pattern of relation moderate elites (both Islam or Christianity) is pro-existence. While the orientation of interreligious dialogues that they build generally is dialogues in community/ dialogues of life.