Course
General Information
| Course Id | SAA115029 |
| Course | New Religious Movements |
| Curriculum | S1 SAA 2024 |
| Credit | 3 |
| Course Type | compulsory |
| Description | As stated by HAR Gibb, religion is a "living organism." Like a living organism, religion experiences growth, development and of course also decline or even in the extreme case of "death". The internal and external dynamics of religion in turn influence the emergence of new currents in religion as sects, splinters, or those that explicitly try to separate themselves from the main stream and then declare themselves as separate religions. As the name suggests, this course examines the emergence of new religious movements (New Religious Movements) in the world today by looking at their historical background, patterns of emergence and distribution, the factors surrounding them, and development trends. Considering that the emergence of the GKB is closely related to the response of religious scholars to the development of civilization, new religious movements will emerge. studied from the aspects of the relationship between religion and the state, modernity, secularism, liberalism and democracy. The initial part (lectures 1-7) of this lecture explains the meaning, theories of GKB, as well as global trends and examples of GKB; while the second part (lectures 8-14) examines the existing and developing GKB in Indonesia and various problems related to it in the Indonesian context. |