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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455822503321

Autore

Schrauwers Albert

Titolo

Colonial 'reformation' in the highlands of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, 1892-1995 / / Albert Schrauwers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2000

©2000

ISBN

1-281-99578-9

9786611995782

1-4426-7311-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (302 p.)

Collana

Anthropological Horizons ; ; 14

Disciplina

266.25984

Soggetti

Reformed Church - Missions - Indonesia - Sulawesi - History

Electronic books.

Sulawesi (Indonesia) Church history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps, Figures, and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: On Origin Stories in a Postmodern World -- Part One: Colonial Incorporation -- 1. Missions in Colonial Context -- 2. The Reformation -- Part Two: The Persistence of Tradition -- 3. The Household, Kinship, and Shared Poverty -- 4. Marriage, Kinship, and Posintuwu Networks -- Part Three: Highland Christianity -- 5. Ritualization -- 6. The Rationalization of Belief -- 7. Rationalizing Religion in Indonesia -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The To Pamona, the people of the highlands of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, exhibit the effects of a complicated history of colonial contact. In this anthropological study, Albert Schrauwers examines the profound impact of a Dutch Protestant Mission on the religion and culture of the To Pamona.Schrauwers reveals how a unique discourse on religion in the Netherlands was exported to its colony, Indonesia. The missionaries fostered a religious nationalism that ultimately transformed the region's cultural and political identity over the course of the subsequent century. The role of the church in Dutch and



Indonesian affairs of state is established and the historical roots of this 'pillarization' are unearthed. Central to this phenomenon among the To Pamona, says Schrauwers, was the influence of Dutch missionary Albert C. Kruyt, who used ethnographic methods to impose upon the people a foreign religion and social structure.Schrauwers has based his study on extensive archival research conducted in the Netherlands, as well as two years of field work in Sulawesi. He presents a dynamic view of the evolution of religious practice among the To Pomona, and brings new material to the scholarship on identity and religion in Indonesia.