Traditional Tunes and Lived Religion in the Protestant Church on the Central Moluccas, Indonesia

Jip Lensink (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

302 Seiten

2025
Amsterdam University Press (Verlag)
978-94-6372-979-6 (ISBN)

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In the southeast of Indonesia, on the Moluccas, theologians are developing contextual theologies for the Moluccan Protestant church. The Moluccas were colonized by the Dutch for more than three centuries. As an effort of religious decolonization, Moluccan theologians aim to better connect Christianity with the cultural realities of congregants. This book is about the contextualization of church music. Christian Izaac Tamaela proposed and instigated the transposition of Moluccan traditional music to the Moluccan Protestant church. In the book, the author asks how traditional music, as framed within contextual Moluccan theology, is interrelated with lived religion. Vivid descriptions of liturgical practices, music traditions, and personal encounters map the entanglements between Moluccan culture, Moluccan Protestantism, and Moluccan music. The author traces the theological idea of traditional church music to lived religious practices and attitudes among ministers, musicians, and congregants. The resonances and dissonances of this process show the continuous transformation of Moluccan traditional music. For a selection of the audio-visual material, visit the website www.jiplensink.nl/tt.

Jip Lensink is a PhD candidate at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. She works at the department of Philosophy and Religious Studies. Jip Lensink has a Bachelor’s degree in Cultural Anthropology and a Research Master’s degree in Religious Studies. Her academic interests include the anthropology of Christianity, music, material religion, heritage, migration and religious (song) texts.

Introduction, Chapter 1: Culture, Colonialism and Church: The Historical Context, Chapter 2: Ministry, Music and Meaning: The Religious Context, Chapter 3: The Context of Context: Moluccan Contextual Theology, Chapter 4: Moluccan Contextualization: Material Theology, Chapter 5: Music of Maluku: Chris Tamaela, Chapter 6: Traditional as Modern: Moluccan Music Reconstructed, Chapter 7: The Ancestors, The Ethnic, The Ordinary: Traditional Church Music, Conclusion, Glossary, Index, Summary, Ringkasan, Bibliography.

Erscheinungsdatum	11.03.2025
Reihe/Serie	Religion and Society in Asia
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	600 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	94-6372-979-8 / 9463729798
ISBN-13	978-94-6372-979-6 / 9789463729796
Zustand	Neuware