Fields of the Lord : animism, Christian minorities, and state development in Indonesia

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Fields of the Lord : animism, Christian minorities, and state development in Indonesia

Lorraine V. Aragon

University of Hawaiʿi Press, c2000

  • : cloth
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-367) and index

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: cloth ISBN 9780824821715

内容説明

Religious and ethnic violence between Indonesia's Muslims and Christians escalated dramatically just before and after President Suharto resigned in 1998. In this first major ethnographic study of Christianization in Indonesia, Aragon delineates colonial and postcolonial circumstances contributing to the dynamics of these contemporary conflicts. Aragon's ethnography of Indonesian Christian minorities in Sulawesi combines a political economy of colonial missionisation with a microanalysis of shifting religious ideology and practice. Fields of the Lord challenges much comparative religion scholarship by contending that religions, like contemporary cultural groups, be located in their spheres of interaction rather than as the abstracted cognitive and behavioural systems conceived by many adherents, modernist states, and Western scholars. Aragon's portrayal of ""near-tribal"" populations who characterise themselves as ""fanatic Christians"" asks the reader to rethink issues of Indonesian nationalism and ""modern"" development as they converged in President Suharto's late New Order state. Through its careful documentation of colonial missionary tactics, unexpected postcolonial upheavals, and contemporary Christian narratives, Fields of the Lord analyses the historical and institutional links between state rule and individuals' religious choices. Beyond these contributions, this ethnography includes captivating stories of Salvation Army ""angels of the forest"" and nationally marginal but locally autonomous dry-rice and coffee farmers. These Salvation Army ""soldiers"" make Protestantism work on their own ecological, moral, and political turf, maintaining their communities and ongoing religious concerns in the difficult terrain of the Central Sulawesi highlands.

目次

Acknowledgments Note on Language and Orthography Introduction 1. Before and After Religion 2. Highland Places and Peoples 3. Precolonial Polities, Exchange,and Early Colonial Contact 4. Onward Christian Soldiers:The Salvation Army in Sulawesi 5. Precolonial Cosmology andChristian Consequences 6. Sacrificial Dialogues andChristian Ritual Qualifications 7. The Powers of the Word 8. Constructing a Godly New Order 9. Conclusions Notes Bibliography Index
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: pbk ISBN 9780824823030

内容説明

Religious and ethnic violence between Indonesia's Muslim majority and Christian minorities escalated dramatically after Suharto resigned in 1998. In this ethnographic study of Christianization in Indonesia, Lorraine Aragon delineates some of the background to this conflict. The work departs from many studies of comparative religion by positing that religions - like cultural groups - no longer can be considered as isolated or inherently ""orthodox"" entities. Moreover, the realization of particular religions in their social contexts are best understood through an examination of institutions that mediate between the power of governments and the agency of particular individuals. To this end, Aragon closely details Central Sulawesi highlanders' institutions of farming and community leadership, regional patterns of exchange, ancestral cosmology, shamanic healing, sacrificial rituals, and ritual speech and song to determine the subtle shifts that have caused contemporary forms of these events to be deemed either Christian or ""unchristian"".

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