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This month's newsletter highlights our newly published report analyzing restrictions on freedom of religion or belief in Indonesia, considering both norms and practices. As usual, it also features students' essays on various topics, this time being new animism, politics of citizenship, origins of belief, and contextual theology.
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 CRCS in collaboration with the Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies (ICRS) and the Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI) publish a report on the norms and practices of freedom of religion or belief in Indonesia during the Covid-19 pandemic. This 50-page report in Indonesian is available for download.
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 New animism criticizes the old animism paradigm it considers to be evolutionist, essentialist, and modern biased. However, does the new animism successfully escape these problems? Taking into account the complex diversity of indigenous religions in Southeast Asia, it may fall into the same trap. (Indonesian)
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 Full recognition of citizenship should take into account four dimensions of citizenship: membership, legal status, civil rights, and public participation. For each of these dimensions, full advocacy should consider the politics of 3R: recognition, representation, and redistribution. This essay is a class journal from CRCS' Religion, State and Society course. (Indonesian)
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 Christianization, in most cases, came initially to the Archipelago with colonialism. It also conducted depaganization and deculturation against religious practices of the time. How did local Christians respond to these campaigns? Kyai Sadrach with his Kristen Kang Mardika (The Free Christians) community showed their disobedience. (Indonesian)
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 The evolution of primates that gave birth to homo sapiens shows discontinuity. Different from other members of the primate kingdom that have a tiny genetic difference, humans develop a capacity to believe. What are its driving factors? The book Why We Believe: Evolution and the Human Way of Being (2019) attempts to answer this question. (Indonesian)
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