Comparative Religion in Islamic Higher Education, an Indonesian Cornerstone of Interreligious Studies

Abstract

Universitas Islam Negeri (UIN, State Islamic University) Sunan Kalijaga, Yogyakarta, is renowned as an outstanding centre of comparative religious studies in Indonesia. This study will address how the comparative religion as an academic discipline began to be introduced, taught and developed in the university since the early 1960s. The introduction of such academic field into the university