Religion and Anthropology: Identifying Koentjaraningrat’s Elements of Culture in The-Quran

Imam Subchi, Rena Latifa, Munir

2018

Abstract

The Qur’an, the Holy Book of Islamic religion, contains a lot of anthropological information as it has information regarding the story of people before the era of Islam and of Muhammad and his Companions. Those information can be traced on the Qur’anic narration on human activities. Humans are entities that always associate with their culture and environment. Cultural behavior is an open land to be examined in the perspective of humanities. The stories in al-Quran are important material in this article. The author classifies the stories based on 7 elements of culture proposed by Koentjaraningrat, an Indonesian anthropologist. The seven are; language system, technology, economy, knowledge, social organization, culture and religion. Almost all of these elements can be found in al-Quran. In sorting out these stories, basic knowledge of the Qur’anic interpretation is needed to synthesize these materials with the thoughts of Koentjaraningrat. This paper presents a new anthropological perspective called anthropology of the Quran. This study wants to prove that the principles of science, including anthropology, actually have proof in the Quran. This study is similar to hermeneutical studies that establish the gospel as an open text, which is neutral in nature so that it is possible to be proven, denied or criticized in an academic perspective, in this case through an anthropological point of view.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Subchi I., Latifa R. and Munir. (2018). Religion and Anthropology: Identifying Koentjaraningrat’s Elements of Culture in The-Quran.In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI, ISBN 978-989-758-458-9, pages 2006-2013. DOI: 10.5220/0009938520062013

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icri18,
author={Imam Subchi and Rena Latifa and Munir},
title={Religion and Anthropology: Identifying Koentjaraningrat’s Elements of Culture in The-Quran},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,},
year={2018},
pages={2006-2013},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009938520062013},
isbn={978-989-758-458-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,
TI - Religion and Anthropology: Identifying Koentjaraningrat’s Elements of Culture in The-Quran
SN - 978-989-758-458-9
AU - Subchi I.
AU - Latifa R.
AU - Munir.
PY - 2018
SP - 2006
EP - 2013
DO - 10.5220/0009938520062013