ERWARTUNGHORIZONT IN CONFRONTING INTOLERANCE IN ISLAMIC TEXTS

Abstract

This paper studies the ways to rebuke the abuse of the Islamic texts that promote intolerance by terrorists the peak can be seen in the bomb blasts in churches in Surabaya in 2018. In order to refute their idea, this paper shows that through the idea of Hans Jauss’ idea namely Erwartunghorizont that focuses on the pragmatics criticism that readers of text may have different interpretation depend on the time they live and the spirit of time. This paper finds that the doers think that the acts are correct based the texts that they interpret subjectively, so that they justify to kill the Christian worshippers in the churches, the destruction of churches, and the refutation of making friendly relationship with the non- muslims, but in fact, their interpretation on Islamic texts is flaw because there some Islamic texts that repudiate their interpretation.This paper also has the researchers’ own subjectivity because the paper writers also live in certain milieu and part of a certain generation and use an interpretation of certain generation on reading and interpreting Islamic texts.