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religions in dialogue: the construction of an Indonesian minority religion
Author(s) -
ATKINSON JANE MONNIG
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1983.10.4.02a00040
Subject(s) - indonesian , meaning (existential) , sociology , ethnic group , context (archaeology) , religiosity , consciousness , islam , anthropology , religious studies , epistemology , social science , linguistics , philosophy , theology , history , archaeology
Clifford Geertz (1966) proposes a definition of religion that transcends a conventional distinction between world religions and traditional religions. He regards religions as particular cultural solutions to universal problems of meaning. But problems of meaning are experienced by cultural actors only in the context of social systems. Thus, religions as cultural systems are impressed by the institutional conditions of their construction. This point is demonstrated here by an examination of developing religious consciousness among the Wana of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, in response to national religious policies, [anthropology of religion, primitive or traditional religions, Indonesia, Sulawesi or Celebes, Wana, ethnicity]