Building Religious Moderation Through a Behavior Approach to Tolerance and Anti-Radicalism in Adolescents

Abstract

Teenagers are a generation that continues the nation’s ideals, so it is important to develop an attitude of peace and tolerance and uphold the unity and unity of the Indonesian nation. However, currently, the survey results show that the level of radicalism among adolescents is increasing due to the negative impact of technological advances. This is very important in how adolescents can develop religious moderation as a middle ground in teaching understanding about advocating and applying religious teachings in a balanced and fair manner. This research aims to build religious moderation through an approach to tolerance and anti-radicalism behavior in adolescents. The method used is a quantitative correlation approach. The study’s respondent was taken with purposive sampling techniques, namely adolescent age (13-16 years), which amounted to 644 people (226 men and 418 women). The results of the analysis showed that tolerance attitudes had an influence of 48.3% or ß = 0.483 with p-value = 0.000, and radicalism had an influence of 26.5% or ß = -0.265 with p-value = 0.000. The conclusion is to build religious moderation on the evident influence of tolerance and anti-radicalism attitude. With a perspective of accepting differences, and upholding the value of diversity among religious communities is the main capital in forming an attitude of religious moderation.

Keywords

• religious moderation
• radicalism
• tolerance