Proceedings of the First International Conference on Christian and Inter Religious Studies, ICCIRS 2019, December 11-14 2019, Manado, Indonesia

Research Article

The Role of Christian Education Among Religious and Pluralism Society at the Post Truth Era

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.11-12-2019.2302105,
        author={Deflita R. N. Lumi and Berdinata  Massang},
        title={The Role of Christian Education Among Religious and Pluralism Society at the Post Truth Era},
        proceedings={Proceedings of the First International Conference on Christian and Inter Religious Studies, ICCIRS 2019, December 11-14 2019, Manado, Indonesia},
        publisher={EAI},
        proceedings_a={ICCIRS},
        year={2020},
        month={11},
        keywords={christian education religious and pluralism society post truth era},
        doi={10.4108/eai.11-12-2019.2302105}
    }
    
  • Deflita R. N. Lumi
    Berdinata Massang
    Year: 2020
    The Role of Christian Education Among Religious and Pluralism Society at the Post Truth Era
    ICCIRS
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.11-12-2019.2302105
Deflita R. N. Lumi1,*, Berdinata Massang2
  • 1: Christian Education Faculty of IAKN Manado
  • 2: Bougenville Street, Tateli 1 Mandolang, Minahasa, North Sulawesi
*Contact email: deflita.stakn@gmail.com

Abstract

This paper issue is about Christian Education which is very important to face the Post Truth Era among religious society. Post truth era can be seen based on individual knowledge of reality and individual perspective. the advanced of technology and social media uses shows the main role to evolve society in order to decide which is truth or false, hoax (twisted truth) and fake news spread among society. Hoax and fake news obviously gives impact, that’s why this paper describe Christian Education role as a fence to prevent post truth era impact by critical issue method. based on issue of this paper among the society at the post truth era cause of polarization, radical, political tension, intolerant and anti pluralism, Christian educational hopefully can reduce the impact by reveal pluralism and open to the diversity, open minded and critical of receiving information based on value and moral ethic.