| Abstrakt: |
This study addresses the lack of discussion on how religious literacy in a nonformal setting is practiced and utilized in a resilient-building framework. Taking the Indonesian traditional Islamic boarding schools known as pesantren as a case study, this study examines pesantren’s role in addressing socio-religious polarization issues in Indonesia. This study employs a phenomenology method with a sociology of religion approach to better explore socioreligious aspects of the topic. Data is collected through library research, field observations, and structured interviews involving pesantren's leaders, teachers, and students at pesantren al-Muayyad in Windan, Surakarta. The discussion results show that: fist, through dynamic power and network mobilization, Kyai plays the role of a strategic religious actor who translates religious pluralism to the public facilitating pesantren as a community development center where authentic and meaningful socio-religious interactions among students take place. Second, to build a resilient faith community member, Al- Muayyad Windan designed three integrative stages of religious literacy enhancement, i.e., religious literacy at the personal level, religious literacy at the intrareligious level, and religious literacy at the interreligious level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
