Strengthening Tolerance among Religious People through Learning Islamic Religious Education

Abstract

This article focuses on how interfaith tolerance is established by students, as well as the factors that influence the course of tolerance between religious people. In this article, the theory used is Gusdur's theory of thought, namely the concept of tolerance by prioritizing human values without discriminating against ethnicity, religion, caste, culture and so on. The approach used is aqualitative approach with the library research method, which is a series of activities by collecting library data through writings, documentation, articles and journals. The results of this study show that strengthening tolerance between religious people through learning Islamic religious education, namely with internal and external factors. The internal factor is the teacher's approach to students so that it gives rise to an attitude of religious tolerance by the students themselves. The second factor is the external factor, the approach taken is a social approach where the approach includes an approach with the community and parents.