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1 online resource (167 pages) |
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Contestations in Contemporary Southeast Asia |
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Contestations in Contemporary Southeast Asia
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| Contents |
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Praise page for Hierarchies of Power -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction -- P/E Church, Religious Change, and Globalization -- Value-Culturalist Approach -- Hierarchy, Religious Change, and Power Structures -- The Kenyah in Apokayan and Central Borneo -- The Fieldwork -- Outline of the Chapters -- References -- 2 The End of Headhunting and the Globalizing Mission of Evangelical Christianity in Borneo -- Upland-Lowland Social Formation in Precolonial and Colonial Borneo -- The End of Headhunting -- Moral Frontiers and P/E Christian Ideology |
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The Urgency of Proselytizing and Evangelical Christian Moral Geography -- Self-Planting Church and Egalitarian Vision of a Church Network -- The Radical Break with Tradition -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 The Fall of Adat Pu'un and the Politics of Church Making -- The Fall of Old Adat, Bungan Malan, and Christianity as a Novel Form of Power -- The Emergence of the Indigenous Church and Local Evangelists -- Becoming Missionaries: Transnational Church Development in the Midst of Indonesia's Revolution -- The Fall of Old Adat, Church, and Gendered Social Change -- Conclusion -- References |
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4 The Spirit Went Upriver: Disenchanted Adat and the Politics of "Culture" -- The Return of Adat, Ladung Bio, and Politics of Pemekaran -- Christian Aristocrat: Pastor Raising a Belawing -- Uman Jenai as Disenchanted Rituals -- Beyond the Ritual, Gendered Adat, and Ethics of Everyday Life -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 Inter-Denominational Relations, Hierarchy, and Schism -- Bungan Malan Movement and Early Conversion -- Contrasting Liturgies and Polarized Villages -- Liturgy, Village Events, and Inter-Denominational Relations -- The Complete and Incomplete Church -- Conclusion -- References |
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6 Conclusion -- The Articulation of Socio-Religious Forms and the Development of P/E Christianity -- Reassessing Religious Change in Borneo, Southeast Asia, and Beyond -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
"This important ethnographic and ethnohistorical study of the interactions of Adat and Pentecostal-Evangelical Christianity among the Kenyah of Central Borneo cuts through the underbrush of now overfamiliar debates about Christian conversion and individualism to ask challenging new questions about how egalitarianism and hierarchy are negotiated by means of complex religious and political struggles. Opening up a fresh analytic perspective and posing a novel set of questions about religion and cultural change, this book is a major contribution to the anthropology of Christianity."--Joel Robbins, Sigrid Rausing Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge. This book focuses on a Pentecostal-Evangelical Kenyah community in central Borneo, a region that crosses the border between Malaysia and Indonesia. The book argues that the Pentecostal-Evangelical (P/e) mode of religious authority and organization has the capacity to adapt to both the pre-existing hierarchical traditional institution such as Adat and modern egalitarian social forms. It has been necessary within the context of Kenyahs experience of religious change as it enabled many actors from various social classes to obtain and perceive religious authority in a specific local and regional political-religious situation while promoting their identity as egalitarian and autonomous modern subjects. In contrast with other studies on the P/e church that emphasize its egalitarian spirit as a factor that supports its impressive growth, the book contends that its adaptive structural characteristics have enabled the development of this specific Christian denomination to expand rapidly and play a dominant position in contemporary social life in various parts of the world. The book thus provides novel findings in the study of religious change in Southeast Asia by enriching the discussion of historical transformation in the region, and analyzing the articulation of global and regional Christian movements, with the socio-political characteristics of Bornean society. Imam Ardhianto is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Anthropology, Universitas Indonesia. His research interests include religious change, Adat transformation, globalization, anthropology of Christianity and Borneo studies |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed April 21, 2022) |
| Subject |
Christianity -- Borneo
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Church and state -- Borneo
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Pentecostalism -- Borneo
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Christianity
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Church and state
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Pentecostalism
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Borneo
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789811901713 |
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9811901716 |
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