Conceptual dilemmas from a fieldwork in Indonesia

Religious' 'unity in diversity' at the Lingsar Temple festival

Bibliographic Data

ID4780641
AuthorsAnna M Maćkowiak (0000-0002-0041-4452, Institute for the Study of Religions, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume52
Issue1
Pages86-101
Publication date2022-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueReligion (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0048-721X • E-ISSN: 1096-1151
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0048721x.2021.2011083
OpenAlexW4200295480
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited40

The Lingsar Temple and its festival belong to Lombok’s Muslims and Hindus. The relations between these two religious groups are often characterised in line with the idealised pluralism of Indonesia’s national ‘unity in diversity’ motto. In this context, I studied the array of emic perspectives. In this article, I discuss problems with conceptual vocabulary. The vocabulary that aspires to be emic is relational and multi-layered. It is entangled with indigenous, colonial, academic, national, religious, and touristic discourses

Colonialism · Context (archaeology) · Diversity (politics) · Emic and etic · Epistemology · Indigenous · Linguistics · Pluralism (philosophy) · Political science · Religious pluralism · Sociology · Vocabulary · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Asian Studies and History · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies