Muhammad Roy Purwanto, Tamyiz Mukharrom, Yusdani, Ahmad Munjin Nasih
This paper sought to elaborate the role of the Nahdlatul Ulama organization in shaping the community's inclusive mindset and religious ideology, especially in university lecturers in Indonesia. Lecturers' religious thoughts were mapped to be inclusive, exclusive, and radical. The paper used a quantitative approach with questionnaires when collecting the data. Several questions on self-identity, the community organizations followed, the concept of truth, tolerance and inclusive within religions, were asked in the questionnaire. Respondents were forty lecturers in four major cities in Indonesia: Bandung, Yogyakarta, Semarang, and Malang. The results showed that lecturers who have backgrounds from Nahdlatul Ulama had an inclusive religious ideology. The data shows that 52% of lecturers in Indonesia were categorized as inclusive, 42% of lecturers as exclusive and 5% percent of lecturers were categorized as radical. The data also showed that 80% of the lecturers who have an inclusive ideology are from the Nahdlatul Ulama background. © 2019 Primrose Hall Publishing Group.
Universitas Islam Indonesia, Indonesia; Universitas Negeri Malang, Indonesia
