Religious Anthropocentrism

A series of suicide bombings in Surabaya and Sidoarjo as well as the violence carried out by terrorism prisoners at the penitentiary in the Brimob Headquarters represent the theocentric religious profile, which at the same time ignore the religious anthropocentrism dimension.

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A series of suicide bombings in Surabaya and Sidoarjo ahead of Ramadhan, as well as the violence terrorism inmates instigated at the detention center of the Mobile Brigade (Brimob) headquarters in Depok, West Java, represent a theocentric religious profile that, at the same time, neglects the dimension of religious anthropocentrism.

Imagining (the hand) of God behind the perpetrators’ motives not only lowers humans as a religious subject and humanitarian values, but also renders religious life meaningless. However, religious anthropocentrism in this context must be distinguished from anthropocentrism as an eco-theological concept.