Vol. 6 No. 2 (2025): Focus
FOCUS Vol. 6 No. 2 (2025) presents eight research articles that critically explore the intersections of religion, theology, culture, technology, and socio-political dynamics across diverse religious and intellectual contexts. This edition foregrounds key theological and philosophical questions arising from modernity, digital transformation, and global pluralism, while maintaining strong attention to historical inquiry and lived religious experience. Collectively, the contributions demonstrate how religious thought and practice are being reinterpreted and reformulated in response to rapid social, cultural, and technological change.
The articles engage themes ranging from theology–science dialogue, digital spirituality, and ethical reflections on obedience and war, to religious identity construction through media, Qur’anic history, homiletics, Islamic art, and Sufi phenomenology. This issue features eight articles written by 17 contributors from Indonesia, Italy, and Türkiye, affiliated with seven academic and religious institutions, including Sekolah Tinggi Filsafat Driyarkara, Universitas Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa, UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung, Universitas Katolik Parahyangan Bandung, Formation Religieuses du Sacré-Cœur de Jésus (Rome), Ibn Haldun University (Türkiye), and UIN Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau. Together, these contributions reaffirm FOCUS’s commitment to advancing rigorous, interdisciplinary, and context-sensitive scholarship on religion within contemporary global transformations.
