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Pockets full of mistakes: the personal consequences of religious change in a Toraja village
Oceania • 58 • Published In 1988 • Pages: 275-289
By: Hollan, Douglas.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this paper, Hollan analyses the consequences of religious change in a Toraja village of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. He describes how Toraja villagers traditionally define and respond to alternatives suggested by Christianity. Hollan argues that in studies of religious change there needs to be a measure of the perceived 'fit' between old and new religious conceptions. He also believes that the ways that individuals use cultural symbols and institutions to order and make sense of their everyday experience is another important factor in studies of religious change.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Ethics
- General character of religion
- Theological systems
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Purification and atonement
- Avoidance and taboo
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Southern Toraja
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1997
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southeast Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ronald N. Johnson ; 1995
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1982-1983
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1982-1983
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- south Celebes, Indonesia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Douglas Hollan
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-289)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 38017490
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Toraja (Indonesian people)