Kebalian
- Title
- Kebalian
- Original language
- Indonesian
- Author(s)
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- Publisher
- Gramedia
- ISBN
- 9786024814250
- Publication date
- 2020 this version
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Description(s)
This book retraces the dialogical construction of what Balinese intellectuals call “kebalian”, which they regard as a tree, whose roots are religion, the trunk is adat, and culture is the fruit. This identity contemplation movement began with the conquest of the island of Bali and its integration into the colonial government of the Dutch East Indies in the early twentieth century. This movement revived after Indonesia's independence, when the Balinese had to fight hard to have their religion recognized by the state. In this way, the Balinese reformers succeeded in defining their ethnic identity in relation to Hinduism, even though they had to let their religion be confiscated in order for it to be recognized. This Hinduization of their religious practices has fueled repeated conflicts between the Balinese who wish to preserve the uniqueness of their ancestral traditions and the Balinese who wish to reform these ancestral traditions, conforming to their ideas of Hinduism. So the question is not whether Balinese are Hindus, if they were Hindus before, not even if they are Hindus. The aims of this study are, first, to explain a number of reasons why Balinese use Hinduism as a diacritical marker of their “kebalian” and, second, to describe the various identity re-formations that have resulted. Indonesian version available as e-book. Original language: French
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