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The Quick Growth of the Catholic Church in Manggarai: A Phenomenology of Conversion and Some Explanations Borgias M., Fransiskus
MELINTAS An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion (MIJPR) Vol. 31 No. 3 (2015)
Publisher : Faculty of Philosophy, Parahyangan Catholic University, Bandung

Since the arrival of Christianity together with the colonial rulers, Manggarai, Flores, Indonesia, undergoes physical and spiritual changes. These changes can be explained with theory of intellectual voluntarism (the free will of the repentant) and theory of structural determinism (enforcement by external factor). It appears that the changes in Manggarai happen because of the mixture of both factors in their diverse variants, such as the political-economical, educational, social-services related, and religious-theological factors. There are two horizons in the whole process of encounter and transformation in this area. On the one hand, there is the horizon of European Christian missionaries (supported by government), and on the other hand, the horizon of the Manggarain, with their cultural life in the broadest sense of the word. The two horizons fuse to each other in one drama of cultural encounter throughout the growth of the Church. Following the hermeneutical discourse of Gadamer, it might be said that the fusion of the two horizons results in the emergence of a new face of unique local and contextual Christianity. In its uniqueness and locality, it has also something to be contributed to the universal Church.

Makan sebagai Aktivitas Produktif: Tinjauan Filosofis tentang Makan dari Perspektif Foucaultian Setiawan, F. X. Rudi
MELINTAS An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion (MIJPR) Vol. 31 No. 3 (2015)
Publisher : Faculty of Philosophy, Parahyangan Catholic University, Bandung

The meaning of eating is often reduced to concern objects or properties. Food is quite often understood as merely nutritive materials to fulfill the biological needs in order to survive or to satisfy human psychological desire. From this perspective, eating is tragically seen as killing for living. Eating thus becomes a consumptive and exploitative action. Nevertheless, eating can be a more productive act if food is not only construed as object or property, but as human strategy or means to construct relationships in social life. Inspired by Foucault, this paper shows that the meaning of food ought to be extended from the nutritive intrinsic aspects toward the political or cultural aspects; that is, food as a means to construct subject. In a sense, food governs or normalizes people in their social life. Therefore, food and eating give rise to knowledge, value order, behavioral patterns, lifestyles, or beliefs: they become the creative and transformative energy of the civilization.

Jalan Bakti dalam Upaya Inkulturasi Injil Kristus di tengah Masyarakat Tionghoa Kristen di Indonesia Suryadi, Yohanes
MELINTAS An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion (MIJPR) Vol. 31 No. 3 (2015)
Publisher : Faculty of Philosophy, Parahyangan Catholic University, Bandung

The ethics of ‘homage’ and its practice in the Chinese tradition is centered around the ethics of the family, but in Indonesia it might have been tainted by the ideological and political interests of the exploitating rulers. As a consequence, the various ethical-familial dimensions of a noble homage-ethics could have been manipulated as well and become a means for subtle ideological-religious oppresion. The political-ideological content of homage-ethics that has been deviated into ideological homage needs to be shown to the Chinese people in Indonesia, so that they may respond critically to the homage-tyranny that creates the slave mentality, which sometimes is tucked into the collective unconsciousness. The exploitating homage ideology in the Chinese culture might be replaced with Jesus Christ’s ‘homage theology’, which is liberating and transforming. The perfect homage act of Christ on the cross is theocentric, but it brings the grace of redemption with its total and transcendental implication, and it has the power to give birth to a ‘new human being’ free from interhuman exploitation, idolatry, immorality, and injustice.

Redefining Ethics and Culture in the Virtual World Piliang, Yasraf A.
MELINTAS An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion (MIJPR) Vol. 31 No. 3 (2015)
Publisher : Faculty of Philosophy, Parahyangan Catholic University, Bandung

Ethics, and its articulation in moral conducts, is not existed in a vacuum, sterile or fixed human world, but a subject of ‘reformulation’ or even ‘redefinition’, as the result of a certain socio-cultural transformation. The development of a global information-digital culture has in a certain intensity affected the perception, understanding and practice of ethics itself as a moral standard. One of the main character of this culture is its ‘artificiality’, through which human communication and interaction is no longer performed on a ‘face-to-face basis, but on a technological mediated one. The consequence is a ‘cultural distanciation’, in which perception is separated from experience, body is separated from message. Another consequence is the ‘transparency’ at an ethical level, in which several ethical boundaries are deconstructed: good/bad, proper/improper. A community ethics is one of today’s ethical problem, in which a ‘commonality’ is no longer constructed based on conventional social bonds, but on more artificial bonds: solitude, rejection, helplessness. Friendship in the digital world is another ‘strange’ development of moral conduct, in which a great numbers of friends is just an affirmation of one’s solitude. As the result, connection—as main pilar in the architecture of our contemporary life—has taken us along a cultural contradiction: it mediates, but at the same time dissociates our cultural experience.

Sembilan Matahari’s Vmaps: Retelling Geographical Memories and Narratives in Digital Culture Allo, Katherina
MELINTAS An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion (MIJPR) Vol. 31 No. 3 (2015)
Publisher : Faculty of Philosophy, Parahyangan Catholic University, Bandung

Images and representations have long been used to tell the history of a place, to crystalize local memories, myths and beliefs, and to share meaningful values in a collective life. Sembilan Matahari, one of the nationally renown film-makers and video artists in Indonesia, has produced works of video-mapping (vmap) from 2010 to 2014 in public spaces as part of the local events to celebrate and re-activate the life of a people. Through Sembilan Matahari’s works the city of Jakarta, Pekalongan and Bandung have animated their iconic buildings to tell their stories and renew the memories of the place and the people. This article is based on a research examining the spatial construction of the event and the video-mapping, and how these spatial constructions relate to the geographical memories and narratives of the place. By using phenomenological approaches, this writing will explain how the three spatial constructions relate to one another, and how the reading/ interpretation of the video-mapping occur in experiencing Sembilan Matahari’s works.

Redefining Ethics and Culture in the Virtual World Piliang, Yasraf A.
MELINTAS An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion (MIJPR) Vol. 31 No. 3 (2015)
Publisher : Faculty of Philosophy, Parahyangan Catholic University, Bandung

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.26593/mel.v31i3.1917.236-251

Ethics, and its articulation in moral conducts, is not existed in a vacuum, sterile or fixed human world, but a subject of ‘reformulation’ or even ‘redefinition’, as the result of a certain socio-cultural transformation. The development of a global information-digital culture has in a certain intensity affected the perception, understanding and practice of ethics itself as a moral standard. One of the main character of this culture is its ‘artificiality’, through which human communication and interaction is no longer performed on a ‘face-to-face basis, but on a technological mediated one. The consequence is a ‘cultural distanciation’, in which perception is separated from experience, body is separated from message. Another consequence is the ‘transparency’ at an ethical level, in which several ethical boundaries are deconstructed: good/bad, proper/improper. A community ethics is one of today’s ethical problem, in which a ‘commonality’ is no longer constructed based on conventional social bonds, but on more artificial bonds: solitude, rejection, helplessness. Friendship in the digital world is another ‘strange’ development of moral conduct, in which a great numbers of friends is just an affirmation of one’s solitude. As the result, connection—as main pilar in the architecture of our contemporary life—has taken us along a cultural contradiction: it mediates, but at the same time dissociates our cultural experience.

Sembilan Matahari’s Vmaps: Retelling Geographical Memories and Narratives in Digital Culture Allo, Katherina
MELINTAS An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion (MIJPR) Vol. 31 No. 3 (2015)
Publisher : Faculty of Philosophy, Parahyangan Catholic University, Bandung

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.26593/mel.v31i3.1918.262-275

Images and representations have long been used to tell the history of a place, to crystalize local memories, myths and beliefs, and to share meaningful values in a collective life. Sembilan Matahari, one of the nationally renown film-makers and video artists in Indonesia, has produced works of video-mapping (vmap) from 2010 to 2014 in public spaces as part of the local events to celebrate and re-activate the life of a people. Through Sembilan Matahari’s works the city of Jakarta, Pekalongan and Bandung have animated their iconic buildings to tell their stories and renew the memories of the place and the people. This article is based on a research examining the spatial construction of the event and the video-mapping, and how these spatial constructions relate to the geographical memories and narratives of the place. By using phenomenological approaches, this writing will explain how the three spatial constructions relate to one another, and how the reading/ interpretation of the video-mapping occur in experiencing Sembilan Matahari’s works.

The Quick Growth of the Catholic Church in Manggarai: A Phenomenology of Conversion and Some Explanations Borgias M., Fransiskus
MELINTAS An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion (MIJPR) Vol. 31 No. 3 (2015)
Publisher : Faculty of Philosophy, Parahyangan Catholic University, Bandung

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.26593/mel.v31i3.1919.276-302

Since the arrival of Christianity together with the colonial rulers, Manggarai, Flores, Indonesia, undergoes physical and spiritual changes. These changes can be explained with theory of intellectual voluntarism (the free will of the repentant) and theory of structural determinism (enforcement by external factor). It appears that the changes in Manggarai happen because of the mixture of both factors in their diverse variants, such as the political-economical, educational, social-services related, and religious-theological factors. There are two horizons in the whole process of encounter and transformation in this area. On the one hand, there is the horizon of European Christian missionaries (supported by government), and on the other hand, the horizon of the Manggarain, with their cultural life in the broadest sense of the word. The two horizons fuse to each other in one drama of cultural encounter throughout the growth of the Church. Following the hermeneutical discourse of Gadamer, it might be said that the fusion of the two horizons results in the emergence of a new face of unique local and contextual Christianity. In its uniqueness and locality, it has also something to be contributed to the universal Church.

Makan sebagai Aktivitas Produktif: Tinjauan Filosofis tentang Makan dari Perspektif Foucaultian Setiawan, F. X. Rudi
MELINTAS An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion (MIJPR) Vol. 31 No. 3 (2015)
Publisher : Faculty of Philosophy, Parahyangan Catholic University, Bandung

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.26593/mel.v31i3.1920.303-335

The meaning of eating is often reduced to concern objects or properties. Food is quite often understood as merely nutritive materials to fulfill the biological needs in order to survive or to satisfy human psychological desire. From this perspective, eating is tragically seen as killing for living. Eating thus becomes a consumptive and exploitative action. Nevertheless, eating can be a more productive act if food is not only construed as object or property, but as human strategy or means to construct relationships in social life. Inspired by Foucault, this paper shows that the meaning of food ought to be extended from the nutritive intrinsic aspects toward the political or cultural aspects; that is, food as a means to construct subject. In a sense, food governs or normalizes people in their social life. Therefore, food and eating give rise to knowledge, value order, behavioral patterns, lifestyles, or beliefs: they become the creative and transformative energy of the civilization.

Jalan Bakti dalam Upaya Inkulturasi Injil Kristus di tengah Masyarakat Tionghoa Kristen di Indonesia Suryadi, Yohanes
MELINTAS An International Journal of Philosophy and Religion (MIJPR) Vol. 31 No. 3 (2015)
Publisher : Faculty of Philosophy, Parahyangan Catholic University, Bandung

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.26593/mel.v31i3.1921.336-352

The ethics of ‘homage’ and its practice in the Chinese tradition is centered around the ethics of the family, but in Indonesia it might have been tainted by the ideological and political interests of the exploitating rulers. As a consequence, the various ethical-familial dimensions of a noble homage-ethics could have been manipulated as well and become a means for subtle ideological-religious oppresion. The political-ideological content of homage-ethics that has been deviated into ideological homage needs to be shown to the Chinese people in Indonesia, so that they may respond critically to the homage-tyranny that creates the slave mentality, which sometimes is tucked into the collective unconsciousness. The exploitating homage ideology in the Chinese culture might be replaced with Jesus Christ’s ‘homage theology’, which is liberating and transforming. The perfect homage act of Christ on the cross is theocentric, but it brings the grace of redemption with its total and transcendental implication, and it has the power to give birth to a ‘new human being’ free from interhuman exploitation, idolatry, immorality, and injustice.

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Hadrianus Tedjoworo

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htedjo@unpar.ac.id

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+6222420476

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melintas@unpar.ac.id

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Department of Philosophy, Parahyangan Catholic University, Jl. Nias 2, Bandung 40117, Indonesia

Location
Kota bandung,

Jawa barat

INDONESIA