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This month’s newsletter features all students’ essays, consisting of a report from the CRCS-ICRS Wednesday Forum and a public discussion in Yogyakarta; a reflection on the remaining problems after the Constitutional Court’s 2017 ruling on indigenous religions; and three CRCS’ class journals along the lines of social constructionist approach to religion.

In the Anthropocene, humans are the most complicit in rapid environmental degradation. What can religious traditions offer to resolve this problem? This essay summarizes Prof Michael Northcott’s talk on this topic at the CRCS-ICRS Wednesday Forum last month.

After the 2017 Constitutional Court (MK)’s ruling, regulations on marriage for followers of indigenous religions still contain a few remaining problems at both the administrative level, which haven’t accommodated certain followers of indigenous religion, and the normative level, whose problem can be traced back to the 1974 Marriage Law. (Indonesian)
 

How did President Abdurrahman Wahid (Gus Dur) maintain Papua to be part of the Republic of Indonesia in the beginning of the century? Derived from his recently defended dissertation, Wahid Foundation’s Ahmad Suaedy gave a talk in Yogyakarta, reported here by a CRCS student. (Indonesian)
 

Religion, translated to Indonesian as agama and understood as a fixed concept that has a universally stable definition, actually emerged only recently during the Enlightenment era in Europe and was later brought to the ‘East’ by the colonizers. This CRCS’ class journal resumes Wilfred C Smith’s classic The Meaning and End of Religion. (Indonesian)

The theory of animism originated from the Western anthropological construct in the 19th century, which was later exported to the ‘East’. Over the last few decades, this theory has received criticism due to its evolutionist-essentialism and modernity-biased paradigm. (Indonesian)

The Geertzian santri-abangan dichotomy, as well as terms such as ‘Javanese religion’ and ‘Javanese Islam’, was to some extent a continuation of the anthropological construct from the colonial era. These terms should be used in a critical way. (Indonesian)

Oct 2: How does a displaced religion sound like? - Carola Lorea

Sept 25: Iran's arduous journey after 40 years of the Islamic revolution - Nasir Tamara & Dicky Sofjan

Sept 18: Neo-liberalism and the new Muslim self in Egypt - Jeffrey Kenney

CRCS Newsletter of September 2019



The Center for Religious and Cross-cultural Studies (CRCS) is a Master's Degree program in religious studies and a research center at the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Studies, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM).
 
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