Divine justice: Cosmology, ritual, and Protestant missionization in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia

This dissertation contains an examination of the process and consequences of Protestant missionization in highland Central Sulawesi. Most particularly, it concerns the Tobaku people, a regionally united group of Uma speakers who reside in the southwestern part of the Kulawi subdistrict. The shifting agriculturalist communities of this area were first contacted by the Dutch in the early twentieth-century and proselytized by the Salvation Army beginning in 1918. Although the Tobaku people, like most indigenous Central Sulawesi highlanders, are now almost 100% Protestant--some even refer to themselves as fanatic Christians, their religious concepts and practices are not completely orthodox from the point of view of Western missionaries. This study looks at changing Tobaku religious concepts and practices as a process of negotiation and argumentation based on indigenous moral principles and empirical precedents.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Anthropology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Aragon, Lorraine Victoria

Contributors dc:contributor

• Lehman, Frederic K.

• Religion, History of
• Anthropology, Cultural
• History, Asia, Australia and Oceania

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1992 Aragon, Lorraine Victoria

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9236392
(UMI)AAI9236392

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/20823