“Mengikat Makna” Diajarkan di ICAS Jakarta

“Mengikat Makna” Diajarkan di ICAS Jakarta

Mulai Sabtu, 9 Oktober 2010, Hernowo-penulis Mengikat Makna dan banyak buku tentang metode-metode baru belajar-mengajar diberi kesempatan mengisi mata kuliah Bahasa Indonesia di Islamic College for Advanced Studies (ICAS) untuk para mahasiswa baru tingkat pertama. Ada sekitar 47 mahasiswa yang ikut kuliah tersebut.

Agar kegiatan belajar tersebut tidak membosankan, Hernowo kemudian memanfaatkan pendekatan “input and output” dalam pembelajaran bahasa.

Inti pendekatan ini bertumpu pada empat pilar keterampilan berkomunikasi: speaking, listening, reading, dan writing. Menurut pendekatan ini, jika ada banyak yang dimasukkan, yang dikeluarkan pun akan banyak pula.

The Meaning of Religion

The Meaning of Religion

By Dr. Haidar Bagir

 

Epistemologically, the word “religion” comes from a Latin word religare atau relegare. Relegare means careful, observance to rules or norms, while religare means binding.

Whereas the Arabic word din is the mashdar (gerund) of the verb dana-yadinu which, among others, means : 1. Way or radition, 2. Rules, 3. Law, 4, observance, 5. To be one (with od), 6. Advice.

The Indonesian word “agama” originates from a Sanskrit word which means “orderly” (tidak kacau).

The Meaning and End of Religion

Lecture Matter of

Dr. Haidar Bagir

1 November 2010

The Islamic College Jakarta

In his best known and most controversial work, Smith contends that the concept of religion, rather than being a universally valid category as is generally supposed, is a peculiarly European construct of surprisingly recent origin. The anthropologist and writer on religion and post-colonial studies Talal Asad has characterized The Meaning and End of Religion as a modern classic and a masterpiece.