1st Edition
Traditional Tunes and Lived Religion in the Protestant Church on the Central Moluccas, Indonesia
By Jip Lensink
Copyright 2025
302 Pages
by
Routledge
302 Pages
by
Routledge
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... Read more
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.
Biography
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.
