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This month’s newsletter features essays on the history of the separation between custom (adat) and religion (agama); the NU factor in the 2019 elections; developing eco-friendly theology for world religions; and the relationship between Chinese culture and Christianity in Indonesia. Alongside this is information about CRCS’ intersession courses which start this week.

CRCS welcomes graduate students and the public to enroll in two intersession courses during intersession: Religion and Human Rights and Comparative Mysticism: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Each course is worth 3 credits and is conducted in English. Both meet twice weekly, for a total of twelve meetings.

Public discourse on adat (often translated as ‘custom’) and agama (religion) in Indonesia often treats the two terms as if they are distinct from each other and have a fixed definition. Tracing the history of the use of the terms suggests that their commonly understood meaning were constructed during the colonial era and inherited. (Indonesian)
 

A piece in the Jakarta Post on the Ma’ruf Amin factor in Jokowi’s reelection made two points worth examining: that Ma’ruf failed to boost Jokowi’s electability and that Jokowi’s alliance with NU is prone to slipping into favoritism or even authoritarianism. The former demands critical reviewing, while the latter needs caveats.
 

Indigenous communities play an important role in protecting nature, yet their rights have not been fully recognized. Making use of the notion of “ecological conversion” introduced by Pope Francis, Dr Zainal A Bagir outlines what full recognition of indigenous communities would imply in regard to preserving nature and in relation to the world religions’ communities.

Christian Chinese Indonesians’ selective rejection of some Chinese traditional practices have been biased by Western-Christian modern paradigm of what counts as ‘religion’ (regarded as having to be ‘pure’) and ‘local culture’ (regarded as contaminating), and how the relationship between the two should be. (Indonesian)

CRCS Newsletter of June 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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