BEYOND RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM: A MEETING POINT OF CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION AND ISLAMIC VALUES
Abstract
This paper highlights the issue offundamentalism as the challenge for religious
society. As a considerably popular term, it has attracted some scholars to define
and rerhink of ir. It has been clariffed rhat as an entiry poposing certain
fundamentals of life, religion-including Islam---could not be sparated from a
realiry which is culturally or socially more various and mulricultural. The
problem then emerges as cenain religious rendency imposes its standpoint to
public- The paper argues rhat religion with im fundamental aspects is legalized
by narure and, however, should be revitalized when having a real contact with
the multi-dime ntional society. In this paper, as a case,
religious-lslamic-fundamentals for instance, could be linked into
Citizenship education which rakes an emphasis on how to create a more