Perempuan Penenun: Menelusuri Pengalaman Perempuan Penenun di Sumba dari Sudut Pandang Teologi Keindahan menurut John Navone

Irene Umbu Lolo

doi:10.46567/ijt.v6i1.16

Authors

Irene Umbu Lolo Sekolah Tinggi Teologi Gereja Kristen Sumba (GKS) Lewa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46567/ijt.v6i1.16

Keywords:

women, weaving, experience, remembrance, God's beauty, Sumba, John Navone

Abstract

Knowledge, capacity, and creativity are God’s gifts to women, and these gifts enable women to weave cloth. From a perspective of theological aesthetics, the activity of such weaving women may be seen as a form of participation in God’s beauty, just as their experience as women weavers become an experience of the beauty of God. These women express understanding, knowledge, and awareness of their own personhood, namely, as human beings who through the process and experience of weaving cannot be separated from one another, nature, or God. This article locates the experience of women weavers as an important site for theological aesthetics. Such experience invites more than mere recognition or appreciation, even as it might also function as a basis for a contextual theology in Sumba. This is so, because—as I explicate—such experience amounts to an experience of the beauty of God.

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Author Biography

Irene Umbu Lolo, Sekolah Tinggi Teologi Gereja Kristen Sumba (GKS) Lewa

Irene Umbu Lolo is an ordained pastor at Gereja Kristen Sumba and a faculty member at Sekolah Tinggi Teologi Gereja Kristen Sumba Lewa. She is pursuing a doctoral degree at Sekolah Tinggi Filsafat Theologi Jakarta in Liturgy and Missiology. Several of her publications are “Tragedi 1965 di Sumba Timur: Mengungkap Fakta dan Sejarah dari Perspektif Korban” in Memori-memori Terlarang: Perempuan Korban & Penyintas Tragedi ’65 di Nusa Tenggara Timur, eds. Mery Kolimon dan Liliya Wetangterah (Kupang: Yayasan Bonet Pinggupir, 2012); “Menyuarakan Keadilan bagi Perempuan Penenun, Berteologi dari Konteks Sumba” in Perdamaian dan Keadilan dalam Konteks Indonesia yang Multikultural dan Beragam Tradisi Iman, ed. Yusak B. Setyawan, et. al. (Jakarta: BPK Gunung Mulia, 2017); and “Lingkungan Hidup, Manusia Hidup! Merekonstruksi Teologi Alam dari Konteks Sumba” in Spirit Ekologi Integral, Karel Phil Erari (Jakarta: BPK Gunung Mulia, 2017).

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