Open AccessREINVENTING “PATUNTUNG RELIGION” IN SOUTH SULAWESI, INDONESIA
Author(s) -
Muhammad Takbir,
Rizal Mustansyir,
Sindung Tjahyadi
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
jicsa (journal of islamic civilization in southeast asia)/jicsa : journal of islamic civilaization in southeast asia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2549-7995
pISSN - 2302-1799
DOI - 10.24252/jicsa.v10i1.21393
Subject(s) - islam , christianity , indonesian , religious studies , context (archaeology) , sociology , term (time) , gender studies , history , philosophy , theology , linguistics , archaeology , physics , quantum mechanics
This study re-scritinizes Patuntung as a religious category. The aim is to see the various reasons why Patuntung is called religion and to re-examine the basic assumptions of these reasons. The method used in this research is critical discourse analysis which refers to the Foucauldian genealogy theory. As a result, it was found that the Patuntung religion was a new invention from Dutch Christian missionaries in the colony which was later affirmed by Indonesian scholars in the context of Islam later. In addition, there is a construction bias towards Patuntung religion, both world religions (especially Christianity and Islam) and euro-centric bias. Thus, the term religion attached to Patuntung itself is ambiguous.