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| American Ethnologist | May2000, Vol. 27 Issue 2, p312-339 | The white edge of the margin: textuality and authority in Biak, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. | The article examines how amber beha (big foreigners), the Biak term for respected leaders, harness the potency attributed to distant lands by presenting their words as translations of an alien text. In Biak, Irian Jaya, in the far east of Indonesia, foreign slogans, narratives, and books are considered a crucial source of authority. It explores the implications of this strategy for pursuing authority by examining the worldview expressed in big foreigners' translations of the Bible and other imported works. The case of Biak calls into question scholarly treatments that have taken literacy and Christian conversion as setting the stage for the emergence of postcolonial forms of hegemony. | |
| American Ethnologist | Nov2000, Vol. 27 Issue 4, p854 | Three weddings and a performance: marriage, households, and development in the highlands of.... | Schrauwers, Albert | Describes the wedding ceremonies in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Analysis on the nature of the different genres of weddings; Conflict between church and state over wedding practice; Details on the institutional aspects of wedding; Role of wedding in the conceptions of household and social reproduction of kinship and gendered identities. |
| American Sociologist | Summer94, Vol. 25 Issue 2, p59 | Global Society or "Ghettoized" Knowledges? The Paradox of Sociological Universalization in the Third World. | Lee, Raymond L. M. 1 | The relationship between First and Third World scholarship may be characterized as a type of ideological dependency. This dependency can be seen in the founding of sociology departments in many Third World universities that followed closely the development of tertiary education during the colonial and postcolonial periods. These departments provide an important link between Third World aspirations to modernize and First World production of sociological knowledge for rationalizing modern experiences. They can therefore be considered a type of institutional measure of the fate of modernity in the Third World. Because of the quest for modernity in the Third World, postmodernism will not likely be considered seriously as a reevaluation of and challenge to modernity. The institutionalization of sociology and its probable response to postmodernism will be examined in the context of a Third World nation, namely Malaysia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Asia Journal of Theology | Apr2002, Vol. 16 Issue 1, p164 | As Assessment of the Churches' Participation in Overcoming Poverty in the Indonesia's Development Process. | Joedhiswara, Mikha | Assesses the participation of the churches in overcoming poverty, toward the people as they struggle against poverty in search of justice, equality and participation in Indonesia. Characteristics of poverty; Discussion on poverty in Indonesia's development process; Involvement of Christians in the struggle of the revolution; Participation of the churches in the implementation of Pancasila. |
| Asia Journal of Theology | Oct2005, Vol. 19 Issue 2, p395-411 | Episcopal Authority of the Anglican Church in West Malaysia. | Kalaimuthu | Describes a form of authority exercised by the Church of England or the Anglican Church in West Malaysia. Reason why the role of the Bishop in the Anglican Church acquired a special status; Scope of the Bishop's authority in Great Britain; Law which provided for the privilege of the Archbishop to exercise a form of authority over the Diocese of West Malaysia. |
| Asia Journal of Theology | Apr2005, Vol. 19 Issue 1, p30-67 | A Study of Symbolism in Visual Arts and its Relevance to the Church in Malaysia. | Rajah, Solomon 1,2,3 | Concerns with the study of symbolism in Christian visual arts within the Judeo-Christian traditions and its relevance to the Church in Malaysia. Assessment of the theological understanding of visual arts and the basis upon which symbolism was incorporated in religions; Major concepts of symbolism in the Romantic movements; Some theories on symbolism after the symbolist movement. |
| Asia Journal of Theology | Apr2003, Vol. 17 Issue 1, p91-114 | Paul's Fund-Raising Project and the Practice of Auction in the Batak Church in Indonesia. | Sihombing, Batara | Explores the fund-raising activities of early Christian churches in the time of Saint Paul. Purpose of the collection; Character of the collection; Weaknesses of the auction held by Batak churches in Indonesia. |
| Asia Journal of Theology | Oct2003, Vol. 17 Issue 2, p403-430 | A Christian Understanding of and Response to the Social Impact of Meritocracy on Family Life in Singapore. | Yuen, John | This article briefly traces the reasons why Singapore has adopted meritocracy as a national policy. The social impact of this, especially on the quality of family life, is also highlighted. The article then attempts a Christian-secular presentation to underscore work-family complexities faced by people living in a meritocratic culture. Finally, a spirituality of grace and gifting is proposed as a way of living in Singapore -- one that helps Christians and the Church to be pro-family in a success-oriented society without undermining the virtues of diligence and excellence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Asian Journal of Pentecostal Studies | Jan2001, Vol. 4 Issue 1, p131 | A HISTORY OF THE PENTECOSTAL MOVEMENT IN INDONESIA. | Discusses the history of the Pentecostal Movement in Indonesia. Overview of the history of Christianity in Indonesia; Details of the beginning of the Pentecostal Movement in the country; Information on the proliferation of Pentecostal groups. | |
| Asian Journal of Pentecostal Studies | Jul2003, Vol. 6 Issue 2, p247-263 | A STUDY OF THE NIAS REVIVAL IN INDONESIA. | Dermawan, Julia Theis | Discusses the revival of the Niasan church and explores how it contributed to the overall growth of the church in Indonesia. Increase in the number of baptized believers in Nias between 1915 and 1940; Importance of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit for the growth of Christianity in Asia; Important factors or events which made the Nias revival possible; Characteristics of the Nias revival. |
| Asian Journal of Pentecostal Studies | Jul2001, Vol. 4 Issue 2, p269 | TIMOR REVIVAL: A HISTORICAL STUDY OF THE GREAT TWENTIETH-CENTURY REVIVAL IN INDONESIA. | Wiyono, Gani | Presents a historical study on the spiritual revival in Timor, Indonesia. History of Christianity in the region; Factors and events which made the Timor Revival possible; Characteristics of the Timor Revival. |
| Asian Journal of Social Science | 2003, Vol. 31 Issue 3, p578-582 | Workshop/Seminar on "Women, Youth and Children in Muslim Countries: Between Democracy and War". | Balasubramaniam, Vejai 1 | This article highlights the workshop "Women, Youth and Children in Muslim Countries: Between Democracy and War," which was jointly organized by the Academy of Social Sciences and Women's Development Research Center, held at the Universiti Sains Malaysia, on December 23, 2002. The title of the workshop cum seminar captures the dilemma faced by Muslims in a campaign against terror. The exercise of pointing to the shortcomings of Western models of development and shifting from Eurocentric views were the prominent themes of the papers presented in the workshop. Local traditions acquire prominence in the exercise of exposing alternative perspectives. The civilizing role of religion becomes the basis of a dialogue between civilizations. A high priority is given to education as a means to introduce the alternative ways of doing and understanding life and the world. Education, through school and university curricula, becomes interconnected in a project to create a more tolerant society and world. The desire to break away from Eurocentricism and Western knowledge systems is a struggle in many parts of the developing world as the contradictions of capitalist modernity are made obvious. |
| Dialog: A Journal of Theology | Fall2002, Vol. 41 Issue 3, p205-209 | Confirmation Ministry in the Batak Church. | Nainggolan, B. 1 | Historically, confirmation ministry among Batak?€?s took the form of missionaries presenting the Christian religion in an apologetic and persuasive tone, in an effort to ready Batak converts for Baptism. Today, confirmation ministry among Batak Christians is understood as a fleshing out of what it means to be baptized into the church community. This article explores the method and aims of the confirmation rite and ministry among Batak Christians. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Ethnohistory | Winter2000, Vol. 47 Issue 1, p29 | The Return of the Kingdom: Agama and the Millennium among the Imyan of Irian Jaya, Indonesia. | Timmer, Jaap | Focuses on the millennial beliefs of the Imyan people of Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Anticipations for the coming of Jesus Christ: Beliefs derived from the Christian doctrine, ancestral transgressions and relationships with sky deities; Attitudes of Imyan males towards the future. |
| Ethnology | Summer2004, Vol. 43 Issue 3, p249-270 | GENESIS IN BULI: CHRISTIANITY, BLOOD, AND VERNACULAR MODERNITY ON AN INDONESIAN ISLAND. | Bubandt, Nils 1 | Christianity and local ontology in the North Malukan village of Buli intersect in surprising ways that upset conventional ideas about tradition and modernity. The poetics and cultural politics of blood, as these emerge in an idiosyncratic telling of Genesis, attest to a paradoxical modernity. In this ambivalent modern imaginary, traditional ontology frequently structures pretensions to being modern, while modern sensibilities form the basis of ostensibly traditional assertions. Attending to the discursive and ontological aspects of blood in Buli therefore provides a way of analyzing the entangled imaginaries of modernity and tradition in a marginalized Indonesian community, and by extension a way of bringing the debates about invented traditions and alternative modernities into constructive conversation. (Symbolism and politics of blood, alternative modernities, objectified tradition). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Ethnology | Fall2003, Vol. 42 Issue 4, p307-322 | UNTANGLING CONVERSION: RELIGIOUS CHANGE AND IDENTITY AMONG THE FOREST TOBELO OF INDONESIA. | Duncan, Christopher R. 1 | In the late 1980s, after decades of refusal, the Forest Tobelo foragers of northeastern Halmahera, Indonesia, converted to Christianity. The version of Christianity they accepted was not the one offered (or imposed) by coastal Tobelo-speaking communities with whom they share kinship and affinal ties, but was brought to the region by the American-based New Tribes Mission. This essay examines the factors and motivations behind this change, and offers an explanation that takes into account local histories, larger political and economic changes, such as deforestation and land encroachment, and the rarely examined topic of missionary methodologies. The Forest Tobelo decision to convert is best understood as an attempt to maintain their distinct identity from coastal communities with whom they have a long history of poor relations; the methods used by the New Tribes Mission made conversion an attractive option at that time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Exchange | 2000, Vol. 29 Issue 4, p311 | JESUS AS Iniuwai Ibo (THE GREAT ELDER BROTHER) CHRISTOLOGY EXPRESSED IN THE HYMNS OF MEE CHRISTIANS OF WEST PAPUA. | Tebay, Neles Kebadabi | Discusses how the Mee Christians of Irian Jaya, Indonesia addressed Jesus in their liturgical hymns. Description of cultural salvation among the Mee; Presence of wauwa; Interpretation of the Mee Christians on the life and ministry of Jesus. |
| Foreign Affairs | Jul/Aug2001, Vol. 80 Issue 4, p110-124 | Indonesia Unraveling? | Rohde, David 1 | The article deals with the growing conflict between Christian and Muslim groups in the town of Poso, Sulawesi, Indonesia. From the early 1970s to the late 1990s, close to 10 million people from across Indonesia participated in the resettlement program. Poso received more than 30,000 Balinese Hindus and Javanese Muslims. An isolated area once dominated by Christian members of the indigenous Pamona ethnic group was now the home of half a dozen large, thriving ethnic groups. The weapons, collected in army sweeps in both Christian and Muslim areas, were physical testaments to a grassroots determination to kill. In their silence, local officials and residents of Poso did convey a deep sense of shame about what their community had become. Christians would bitterly complain when the local government failed to prosecute any Muslims for the house burnings, but they carried out no retaliatory attacks. But then on April 15, 2000, a Muslim teenager returned to his predominantly Muslim neighborhood with several cuts on his arm. The boy complained that Christians had attacked him. On the main street, a Christian truck driver and his assistant were pulled from a vehicle and hacked to death with machetes. All told, seven people died, tens of thousands died, and 687 homes were burned to the ground. Within weeks, Christians began carrying out revenge attacks. According to Akram Kamaruddin, the speaker of the local parliament, the area's rapid economic development had undermined traditional social structures. To make matters worse, the police failed to arrest most of the Muslim perpetrators of the initial attacks. To prevent the disruptions from spreading further, Indonesian leaders as well as the U.S. and its allies must take far bolder action to implement political reforms and halt the violence. |
| Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies | Summer2004, Vol. 11 Issue 2, p1-49 | A World of Passions: How to Think About Globalization Now. | Purdy, Jedediah 1 | Discusses the factors which contributed to the failure of neo-liberal policies in the context of globalization. Background of neo-liberalism; Analysis of the economic crises faced by Indonesia and Argentina; Difference between neo-liberal programs and the so called New Consensus; Impact of modernity on globalization. |
| Indonesia & the Malay World | Jun99, Vol. 27 Issue 78, p77 | THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, RELIGIOUS REVIVAL, AND THE NATIONALIST MOVEMENT IN EAST TIMOR, 1975-98. | Carey, Peter | Discusses the role of the Catholic Church in the struggle for freedom in East Timor in 1975-1998. Indonesian military occupancy in East Timor; Nationalist movement; Religious revival. |
| Indonesia & the Malay World | Nov2001, Vol. 29 Issue 85, p180-197 | MATERIALS ON MALAYSIA AND SINGAPORE IN THE ARCHIVES OF THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN LEIPZIG. | Warnk, Holger | Lists publications about the history of Malaysia and Singapore in the archives of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Leipzig, Germany. Documents on Malaya that contain materials in the German, English, Tamil and Swedish languages; Photographic collection of materials on India and Malaya. |
| Inter-Asia Cultural Studies | Dec2004, Vol. 5 Issue 3, p341-356 | The religious, the plural, the secular and the modern: a brief critical survey on Islam in Malaysia. | Aziz, Azmi 1Shamsul, A. B. 1 | The embedization of Islam in Malaysia has gone through a long and complex process that involved an interaction with three major world civilizations (Indian, Chinese and European) and two colonial systems (Dutch and British) during which many aspects of its practices were reconfigured. This paper provides a brief critical survey of the evolution of the said embedization process during which Islam and the Muslims in Malaysia were moulded by a series of sociological realities, namely plural society, secularism and modernity. This has resulted, we argue, in the creation of `moderate' Islam in Malaysia, one that is quite different from the fundamentalist image of Islam profiled in the contemporary worldwide discourse on global Islam. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Inter-Asia Cultural Studies | Dec2004, Vol. 5 Issue 3, p400-414 | Islam, modernity and Muhammadiyah's educational programme. | Fuad, Muhammad 1,2 | By looking at Muhammdiyah's educational programme and examining the discourse of its thinkers concerning modern conditions, this paper explores the ways in which this modernist Islamic movement deals with modernity. The different curricula that Muhammadiyah schools and colleges adopt reflect the tension of its efforts of reconciling religious requirements with those of modernity. The need to prepare students for life in modern times has led Muhammadiyah schools and universities to emphasize the teaching of modern general knowledge and skills, often at the expense of religious subjects. The difficulties of reconciling Islam and modern science, as well as making Islam remain a viable system of values in the midst of industrialization, however, has become a source of energy for Muhammadiyah thinkers to keep searching for new formulations. The fact that the public sphere seems to need an even greater dosage of infusion of Islamic values as Indonesia industrializes and modernizes itself does not discourage them. Their debate indicates a critical understanding of modernity and the challenges and opportunities it offers Muhammadiyah in 21st century Indonesia. Their disagreements show unresolved difficulties as to how modernism and Islam can be fused. They also show, however, a confidence that Islam can be a basis to think of ways of how to confront and shape modernity in Islamic terms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Islam & Christian-Muslim Relations | Jan2002, Vol. 13 Issue 1, p65-84 | The Diverse Voices of Political Islam in Post-Suharto Indonesia. | Riddell, Peter G. | Since the resignation of Suharto as president of Indonesia in May 1998, the country has suffered from chronic instability on various fronts. Economic disruption resulting from the Asian economic crisis of 1997 continues. Food shortages have been widespread throughout the archipelago. Social instability has been rife, especially in densely populated areas where communities have had to compete for scarce resources. Inter-religious conflict has exploded, especially between Muslim and Christian communities, reflecting a common outcome of economic and social instability. This paper will focus upon Indonesia in the period May 1998-July 2001 and will draw upon wide-ranging print and electronic media reports as well as secondary scholarship. Particular attention will be devoted to the political stage and to the changing role of Islam in that context. We will consider the different voices being heard among the Muslim community, the key issues of debate that have preoccupied Muslim political leaders and the ingredients which have contributed to a surge in Muslim-Christian conflict in Indonesia during the period being examined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | Sep80, Vol. 19 Issue 3, p267 | The Decline of Religious Homogeneity: The Indonesian Situation. | Tamney, Joseph B. 1Condran, John G. 2 | In this paper a theory relevant to understanding the decrease in religious homogeneity is developed and tested The theoretical model is based on Wuthnow's (1978) analysis of conditions necessary for cultural innovation, with modifications suggested by Lofland and Stark's (1965) research and studies of secularization. The data come from a stratified random sample of Javanese residents In this context the model was used to predict the prevalence of two types of religious deviants -- Christians and "nones." The theory was partially supported by the data. The paper concludes with suggestions for improving the theoretical model In our work ideas from both perspectives were used to develop a theory for the explanation of religious deviance. Our propositions were tested using data from Indonesia. This paper closes with a reevaluation of the theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Journal of Church & State | Spring92, Vol. 34 Issue 2, p418 | Notes on church-state affairs: Indonesia. | Beck, RosalieCurry, James A. | Reports on church-state affairs in Indonesia as of March 1992. Ban on all house church meetings in the Jakarta area; Authorities' refusal to renew the visas of four missionary families at the Evangelical Theological Seminary of Indonesia. |
| Journal of Church & State | Winter94, Vol. 36 Issue 1, p194 | Notes on church-state affairs: Indonesia. | Beck, RosalieHendon, David W. | Reports on the visit of Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin to President Suharto of Indonesia. Israel's diplomatic effort to mend relations with the Muslim world; Relationship between Muslims and Christians in Indonesia; Political inhibitions on Christians. |
| Journal of Church & State | Winter91, Vol. 33 Issue 1, p167 | Notes on church-state affairs: Indonesia. | Beck, RosalieHendon, David W. | Reports that the fiftieth synod of the Huria Kristen Batak Protestan (Protestant Christian Batak Church) was prohibited by the Indonesian government officials from meeting in August 1990. |
| Journal of Church & State | Autumn90, Vol. 32 Issue 4, p910 | Notes on church-state affairs: Malaysia. | Beck, RosalieHendon, David W. | Reports that Roman Catholic bishops of Malaysia have thrown support behind the effort of other non-Muslim religions to oppose the introduction of Islamic law. |
| Journal of Church & State | Autumn93, Vol. 35 Issue 4, p926 | Notes on church-state: Indonesia. | Beck, RosalieHendon, David W. | Reports on the arrest of seven South Korean Christians for distributing religious materials in Java, Indonesia without permit. |
| Journal of Church & State | Summer99, Vol. 41 Issue 3, p630 | Notes on Church-State Affairs: Indonesia. | Hendon, David W.Allman, Dwight D.Greco, Donald E. | Reports on the fighting between Christians and Muslims in the island of Ambon in the eastern part of Indonesia. Number of Muslims killed when police fired on a crowd outside a mosque on March 1, 1999; Number of Christians killed in a churchyard in Liquinca by militia opposed to independence in East Timor; Remarks from Bishop Carlos Belos regarding the killings in Liquinca. |
| Journal of Church & State | Spring99, Vol. 41 Issue 2, p403 | Notes on Church-State Affairs: Indonesia. | Hendon, David W.Allman, Dwight D.Greco, Donald E. | Reports on the fight between Christians and Muslims in Indonesia. Gang fight in Jakarta between Roman Catholic migrants from the eastern island of Amboina and Muslims on November 22, 1998; Details on the fight on January 22, 1999. |
| Journal of Contemporary Religion | Jan2005, Vol. 20 Issue 1, p25-40 | Theorising 'Talk' about 'Religious Pluralism' and 'Religious Harmony' in Singapore. | Sinha, Vineeta 1 socrs@hus.edu.sg | This article aims to make sense of the discourse on 'religious pluralism' and 'religious harmony' in Singapore. My choice of the ' Maintenance of Religious Harmony Act ' , passed in 1990, to launch this inquiry is by no means accidental or random. I argue that in addition to an empirical domain, it is a central analytical tool that has provided an occasion for the articulation of a range of taken-for-granted statements about 'religion', 'religious pluralism', and 'religious harmony' in Singapore. I map out how the religious scene is discussed by various parties. The inevitability of Singapore's multi-religiosity, the fragility of religious harmony, and the need for constant vigilance are dominant strands. The article addresses these related areas: a brief historical contextualisation of religion in secular Singapore is followed by a condensed narrative of the conditions and deliberations leading to the Act. Further, the discourse on religious harmony from the early 1990s is juxtaposed to present concerns about religion and religious encounters in Singapore. The intention for this is two-fold: to see if there have been any major shifts in such 'talk, and to use the empirical material to call for the re-conceptualisation of categories/notions, such as 'religious pluralism' and 'religious harmony'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Journal of Ecumenical Studies | Fall2001, Vol. 38 Issue 4, p444 | THE DIASPORA CHURCH IN INDONESIA: MANGUNWIJAYA ON NATIONALISM, HUMANISM, AND CATHOLIC PRAXIS. | Mujiburrahman | Discusses Y.B. Mangunwijaya's reflections on nationalism and its relation to the Catholic Church in Indonesia. Contribution of Mangunwijaya's nationalism to Muslim-Christian relations in Indonesia; Origin of Indonesia nationalism; Proposals made by Mangunwijaya to reform Indonesia's political system. |
| Journal of Southeast Asian Studies | Sep98, Vol. 29 Issue 2, p357 | The changing interpretation of religious freedom in Indonesia. | Examines various interpretations of religious freedom in Indonesia. Efforts of Muslims to impose an Islamic view of religious freedom on the national legal system; Ideological tenet called Pancasila; Origin of the principle of belief in one God; Muslim-Christian relations in Kolojonggo. | |
| Massachusetts Review | Summer2004, Vol. 45 Issue 2, p328-338 | A State of Grace. | Mitchell, Kerrie | The article focuses on the blind faith in religion. Author Kerrie Mitchell describes his experience as a child and as an adult about religious beliefs. He had gone for a special mass which was supposed to heal everyone's diseases. At the end of the service, people filed up to the altar where they were met by the priest, who placed his hands on their foreheads. While he prayed for divine intervention, a deacon stood at the parishioner's side. When the priest was through with praying, most of the people genuflected and walked back to their pews. Others were overcome by the heat or the prayer or the 100 percent Almighty and fainted into the deacon's waiting arms with a twitch and a wail. His other experience was about celebrating the Hindu festival of Ethiopian in Malaysia. During the celebration, devotees enter a trance, pierce their bodies with metal lances and hooks, and then walk from Georgetown, the city on the island's northeast coast, to a hilltop temple further inland. He never reacted well to demonstrations of faith that seem unreasonable. |
| Muslim World | Jul-Oct98, Vol. 88 Issue 3/4, p320 | Muslim-Christian Relations In The Pancasila State of Indonesia. | Steenbrink, Karel A. | Focuses on relationship between Muslims and Christians in Indonesia. Reference to the issue of public statements by Christian Churches regarding the conflicts between Christian Dayaks and migrant Madurese Muslims on the island of kalimantan; Percentage of Indonesia's citizens that are muslims. |
| North American Journal of Psychology | 2001, Vol. 3 Issue 1, p77 | Descriptions of Religious Experience among U.S. Christians and Malaysian Muslims. | Nielsen, Michael E.Stevens, Rick | Cross-cultural descriptions of religious experiences were investigated in two studies using adjectives derived from the five-factor model of personality. In study 1, 93 U.S. Christians indicated that adjectives reflecting low levels of neuroticism, and high levels of agreeableness and conscientiousness reflected how they felt during religious experiences. Adjectives reflecting positive affect also were rated to be descriptive of religious experiences. Study 1 also found that participants do not have religious experiences as frequently as they would like. In study 2, 62 Malaysian Muslims were asked to describe either their most important religious or spiritual experience. These descriptions followed a similar pattern as was found in Study 1, with participants describing themselves as being more emotionally stable, open and extraverted during religious than during spiritual experiences. Results are discussed in terms of the utility of adjective ratings for describing experiences across diverse religious traditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Pacific Affairs | Spring2002, Vol. 75 Issue 1, p57 | Legacies of the Authoritarian Past: Religious Violence in Indonesia's Moluccan Islands. | Bertrand, Jacques | Focuses on the factors that led to the violence that broke out between Christians and Muslims in Maluku, Indonesia. Origin of the conflict between the Christians and Muslims in Indonesia; Effect of the ambiguity of the role of Islam and patrimonial relations sustaining the New Order regime on the divisions between the two religious groups; Discussion on Islamization and the struggle for government positions in Maluku; Impact of migration on the conflict of the two groups. |
| Social Alternatives | Apr94, Vol. 13 Issue 1, p44 | East Timor's clandestine resistance to Indonesian integration. | Salla, Michael Emin | Focuses on the East Timorese's resistance to integration with Indonesia. Replacement of Xanana Gusmao as the Supreme Commander of Falantil; Paranoia of being under constant surveillance in East Timor; Proclamation of East Timor as Indonesia's 27th province in 1976; Independence of the Catholic Church from military or government control; Branches of the clandestine resistance in East Timor. |
| Sociological Review | Nov80, Vol. 28 Issue 4, p809-827 | CONFLICT AND SOLIDARITY IN A PENTECOSTAL GROUP IN URBAN MALAYSIA. | Lee, Raymond L. M. 1Ackerman, S. E. 1 | Most of the world's religions have, at one time or another, experienced sporadic and sometimes enduring occurrences of millenarian or revivalistic movements. These movements are usually characterized by outbreaks of religious ecstasies and tendencies towards fanatical beliefs. Many such movements have sprouted within Christianity, the most extensive of these being Pentecostalism which is believed to have originated in the United States at the beginning of the twentieth century. What distinguishes this movement from conventional Christianity is the fervent striving of its members to obtain various spiritual gifts, the chief of these being glossolalia or 'speaking in tongues'. The acquisition and display of these gifts are believed to be manifestations of the baptism or infilling of the Holy Spirit. The success of this movement is reflected in its world-wide membership, its transcendence of class-based recruitment, and its spread into the major Protestant denominations as well as into Catholicism. According to Gerlach and Hine, the total world membership in the Pentecostal movement has been estimated by various researchers at between eight and twelve million. They have also noted the diverse groups that comprise the movement, especially in the United States, namely interdenominational bodies that meet in converted theatres and church basements, family groups that meet in homes, university groups that meet on campuses, store-front churches, etc.[1] <BR> This paper is concerned with the Pentecostal movement in West Malaysia, and more specifically with a Catholic Pentecostal group in Bandar Baru,[4] a rapidly expanding township near the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur. West Malaysia has an ethnically heterogeneous population: about 53 per cent Malays, 35 per cent Chinese, 11 per cent Indians, and 1 per cent others (Eurasians, Europeans, aborigines). Although the official state religion is Islam, the government also recognizes and permits the practice of othe... [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Southeast Asian Journal of Social Science | 1999, Vol. 27 Issue 1, p89 | Rethinking Resurgent Christianity in Singapore. | Goh, Daniel P.S. | Discusses the historical development of Singaporean modernity and the concomitant rise of the existential self. Consequence of independence for a polity not imagined as a nation-community; Components of colonization in Singapore that have significant transcendentalizing effects; Growth of Charismatic Christianity in Singapore. |
| Studies in World Christianity | 2002, Vol. 8 Issue 2, p244-263 | The Church's Ministry of Nation Building and National Integration in Malaysia. | Thu En Yu, Paul | Studies the significance of the church's ministry in the nation building and national integration in Malaysia. Characteristics of the civilization in the country; Role partaken by the church in the development of the nation; Moves made by the country in the process of nation building. |
| Transformation | Apr2004, Vol. 21 Issue 2, p138-140 | Mission as Transformation in Twenty-first Century Asia: The conference statement. | Highlights the Mission as Transformation in Twenty-first Century Asia: Theology and Practice of Wholistic Mission conference, organized by the Center for the Study of Christianity in Asia and Partnership in Mission - Asia in Singapore. Programs and activities; Attendees; Aim to transform the church in Asia to wholistic mission. | |
| Transformation | Jan2002, Vol. 19 Issue 1, p1 | Editorial. | Benson, Paddy | Presents views on the eight consultation of the Theological Resource Network of the Evangelical Fellowship in the Anglican Communion in Port Dickson, Malaysia. Highlights of experiences of families in a changing world; Occurrence of transcendent blessings and deep griefs in the family; Use of Holy Communion in family life. |
| Transformation | Apr2004, Vol. 21 Issue 2, p81-82 | Editorial Introduction. | Singh, David Emmanuel 1 | Highlights the Mission as Transformation in the 21st Century conference on the theology and Practice of Wholistic Mission in Asia held in Singapore. Objectives of Partnership in Mission - Asia and the Centre for the Study of Christianity in Asia in organizing the event; Aim of the conference to enable the church in Asia to focus on Wholistic Mission; Programs and activities. |
| Urban Studies | Nov2004, Vol. 41 Issue 12, p2357-2376 | Rural Villages as Socially Urban Spaces in Malaysia. | Thompson, Eric C. 1 | In Malaysia, Malay kampung or villages are modernity's significant other in contemporary discourse. In contrast to this rhetoric, which reinforces a sense of rural-urban difference, this paper argues that Malay kampung are socially urban spaces, in so far as the lived experience of their residents largely conforms to characteristics of social life typically figured as ?€?urban?€?. These include socioeconomic relationships characterised by occupational stratification, consumption and production based on commodification rather than subsistence, and social Interactions marked by formal and attenuated social ties as much as informal and intimate relationships. Simultaneously nostalgic and derogatory narratives of modernity and urbanism fix kampung in social memory as sites marginal to and outside urban modernity. By contrast, the evidence presented in this paper suggests that the lives of kampung residents in contemporary Malaysia are substantially and qualitatively urban. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |