Open AccessDekolonialisasi Pendidikan Agama Kristen di Indonesia
Author(s) -
Mariska Lauterboom
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
indonesian journal of theology (e-journal)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2339-0751
DOI - 10.46567/ijt.v7i1.8
Subject(s) - colonialism , decolonization , dualism , context (archaeology) , sociology , religious education , gender studies , order (exchange) , pedagogy , history , epistemology , law , political science , philosophy , politics , archaeology , finance , economics
This article explores the importance of decolonizing Christian religious education in Indonesia, especially in churches that were established during Dutch colonialism, by engaging in an expressly postcolonial and decolonial approach. After briefly tracing and criticizing the long history of Western colonialism concerning educational practice, this paper presents a variegated rationale connecting the content, relations, and methods within education in the present moment with those of the past—such that education today be seen as reflecting traces of the oppressive and colonizing education of yesteryear. The alternative to this is decolonization, by which a decolonial imagination attends that relational space of teaching-learning in order to transform and liberate Christian religious education in the postcolonial context of Indonesia. In this imagination, there is no body/mind dualism nor sacred/profane binary, and God is present to meet all as Liberator.