Towards Inclusive Religion Through Religious Moderation: A Case Study in Multireligious Communities

ABSTRACT:This study aims to explore the role of religious moderation in promoting inclusive religion inmultireligious communities. The aim is to understand how religious moderation practices can support dialogue,cooperation, and respect for religious differences in creating an inclusive and harmonious environment.Religious moderation is a framework for how to build a religion that is rahmatan li al alamin, a moderatereligious perspective, and a tawasuth attitude. So far, many have misunderstood between religion and religiousthought. Religion is something sacred and true that cannot be changed and criticized, while religious thoughtcan be criticized because it can be right or wrong because it depends on the level of understanding. Therefore, inunderstanding religious thought so as not to be exclusive and not extreme right or extreme left, it requiresmoderate thinking, one of which is the religious moderation program that has been launched by the Ministry ofReligious Affairs. This article will explore how religious moderation according to the views of maqasidshari’ah,religious moderation relates to human rights, and how the paradigm used in building an inclusive understandingof religion with the foundation of various kinds of science, one of which is to make integrative-interconnectivescientific epistemology as a paradigm in religious moderation.

KEYWORDS :Religious, Inclusive, Religious Moderation, Multireligious Communities.