Forum Keagamaan sebagai Identitas, Multikulturalisme dan Peran Perempuan dalam Moderasi Beragama: Studi Fenomenologi Agama BKMT Kabupaten Kerinci

This study aims to analyze how religious forums become the identity of religious women, the relationship between women and religious moderation, and analyze the relationship between religious forums, women, multiculturalism, and religious moderation. The scope of the religious forum will focus on Badan Kontak Majelis Taklim (BKMT). This study uses a religious phenomenological approach by comparing the existence and initial goals of the BKMT itself. The research will focus on describing the ontological and epistemological phenomena of BKMT in Kerinci Regency related to the existence of women, multiculturalism, and religious moderation. The results of the study show that the existence of women has equated themselves with men and has begun to shift the inherent attributes of gender with various limitations. The role of women has transformed themselves and has the opportunity to contribute to the surrounding environment. Women's understanding of religious moderation has supported the family's understanding to be tolerant, non-violent individuals and have high nationalism. Women are also able to be the initial filter of information about religious inaccuracies. Furthermore, women have become the pioneers of gender equality by using the perspective of religious moderation. In addition, multiculturalism is considered the best paradigm for responding to differences, and then religious moderation is the best position in responding to these differences. Multiculturalism looks for similarities from differences, religious moderation looks for the essence of differences.