Pilgrimage in a Complex and Plural World
The Role of Shrines and the Practice of Catholic Pilgrimage in the Church’s Evangelizing Mission
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.46567/ijt.v11i1.366Keywords:
pilgrimage, evangelization, church, plural societies, privatization and politicization of religionAbstract
Through case study research involving several Catholic pilgrimage sites in Java and Bali, this article shows the role of Catholic pilgrimage sites and their assoiated practices. By taking a phenomenological-anthropological approach informed by sacramental theology and a Catholic theology of evangelization, this article examines today’s dynamics of evangelization in an increasingly divided, complex, and pluralistic era. Pilgrimage sites and traditions have a unique role in the process of evangelization, understood as an expansion of the Church’s presence that transforms people and local communities, with pilgrimage sites and practices shown to empower pilgrims by helping them connect with God, themselves, others, and the universe on a personal, spiritual level. The administrators of pilgrimage sites also seek solidarity with a site’s surrounding community. Given that the Catholic pilgrimage tradition helps people to express their religion in personal, interpersonal, cosmic, and inclusive ways vis-à-vis other religions, the pilgrimage tradition helps the Church and society face the dangers of the privatization of religion, the politicization of religion, and the spread of radical and iconoclastic ideologizations of religion. Such is the task of contextual evangelization in a plural and complex society like Indonesia.
Downloads
References
Pak Alamsyah. Wawancara. Ambarawa, di GMKA. 20 Agustus 2020.
Alexander, Paul. Signs and Wonders: Why Pentecostalism is the World’s Fastest-Growing Faith. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2009.
Brown, D. God and Enchanment of Place: Reclaiming Human Experience. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. Directory on Popular Piety and the Liturgy: Principles and Guidelines, 2001.
Dina (bukan nama sebenarnya; asal Yogyakarta). Wawancara via Google Form. September 2020.
Dini (mahasiswa semester tiga di Universitas Atma Jaya Yogyakarta). Wawancara. Bantul, di Candi HKTY Ganjuran. 20 Agustus 2020.
van Dorn-Harder, Nelly & Kees de Jong. “The Pilgrimage to Tembayat Tradition and Revival in Indonesian Islam, The Muslim World, Vol. 91 (2001): 325-354.
Eade, John dan Michael J. Sallnow, Contesting the Sacred: The Anthropology of Pilgrimage. Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2000.
Empereur, J.A. La Vida Sacra: Contemporary Hispanic Sacramental Theology. Lanhm, Boulder, New York, Toronto, Plymouth: Rowmand & Littlefield, 2006.
Goizueta, R. Caminemos Con Jesus: Toward a Hispanic/Latino Theology of Accompaniment. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 2005.
Gold, A.G. Fruitful Journeys: The Ways of Rajasthani Pilgrims. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.
Handoyo, Pastor Krisno, Pr. Wawancara. Bantul, di Gereja HKTY Ganjuran. 20 Agustus 2020.
Jamhari. To Visit a Sacred Tomb: The Practice of Ziarah to Sunan Tembayad’s Resting Place in Klaten (Unpublished M.A. Thesis). Canberra: Australian National University, 1995.
Kingston, Jeff. The Politics of Religion, Nationalism, and Identity in Asia. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2019.
Laksana, A.B. Muslim and Catholic Pilgrimage: Explorations Through Jawa. New York: Ashgate, 2014.
Margry, P. J. (ed.). Shrines and Pilgrimage in the Modern World: New Itineraries into the Sacred. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2008.
Meri, Josef W. The Cult of Saints among Muslims and Jews in Medieval Syria. New York: Oxford University Press Inc, 2002.
Morinis, E.A. Pilgrimage in Hindu Tradition: A Case Study of West Bengal. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1984.
Ibu Nur, Ibu Suparmi, Ibu Mujilah, dan Ibu Anna. Wawancara. Kulonprogo, di Gua Maria Sendangsono. 30 Agustus 2020.
Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People, “People on the Move”, diakses dari http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/migrants/pom2007-105/rc_pc_migrants_pom105_III-asian-final-doc-en.html
Quinn, George. “Local Pilgrimage in Java and Madura: Why is it booming?”. IIAS Newsletter, No. 35 (2004).
Reader, Ian. Pilgrimage in the Marketplace. New York: Routledge, 2015.
Rosa (bukan nama sebenarnya; asal Klepu, Sleman). Wawancara. Bantul, di Gereja HKTY. 20 Agustus 2020.
Saketi, Ibu Dwi (asal Ungaran; peziarah di GMKA). Wawancara. Ambarawa. 5 September 2020.
Schloesser, S. Jazz Age Catholicism: Mystic Modernism in Postwar Paris, 1919-1933. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005.
Sebastian, Leonard C., et al. (eds.). Rising Islamic Conservatism in Indonesia: Islamic Groups and Identity Politics. New York: Routledge, 2020.
Bapak Septiyarso (pengurus GMKA). Wawancara. Ambarawa. 5 September 2020.
Sistiyono, Heribertus Eko. Wawancara. Ambarawa. 25 Oktober 2020.
Bapak Sunardi (pengurus Gua Maria Tritis). Wawancara. Gunungkidul, Gua Maria Tritis. 23 September 2020.
Pak Totok (mantan pengurus Candi HKTY Ganjuran). Wawancara. Gunungkidul. 20 Agustus 2020.
Bapak Tri (karyawan Gua Maria Sendangsono). Wawancara. Kulonprogo, di Gua Maria Sendangsono. 10 Oktober 2020.
Pastor Triyanto dan Pastor Rheza. Wawancara. Kulonprogo, di Gua Maria Sendangsono. 10 Oktober 2020.
Turner, Victor & Edith Turner. Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 1978.
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
Copyright (c) 2023 Albertus Bagus Laksana, William Christopher Hariandja, Rezerius Bintang Taruna
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
