Teaching Religious Tolerance Through Social Studies Education Based on Multicultural Approach

摘要

This article describes a form of multicultural based on education with various aspects of diversity. Theological science taught tends to be just to strengthen the faith and attainment of heaven without being accompanied by dialogue with other religions. This condition sometimes leads to intolerance. Whereas there needs to be a philosophical-paradigmatic reorientation about how to build a diversity of multicultural, humanist, dialogue-persuasive, contextual, substantive and socially active societies. In the postmodern era today, besides religious education, it should social studies education used as a place to foster mutual tolerance and maintain harmony. This is because Social Studies is directly related to social and real problems. Furthermore, there are also done in everyday life. This paper is conducted to find out the multicultural based education on the character of religious tolerance with one approach that can be combined with socio-cultural values. This approach is a synthesis in order to deal with the seeds of intolerance that have begun to grow in the young generation of this nation. This article was written to provide an overview of teaching religious tolerance through social studies education based on a multicultural approach. The method in this study is library research or literature review.