PENGARUH AGAMA SAMAWI TERHADAP PERUBAHAN SOSIAL-BUDAYA DI ASSOLOKOBAL LEMBAH BALIM

• Main Author: Albertus Heriyanto
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: UIN Antasari Banjarmasin 2016-04-01
• Series: Khazanah: Jurnal Studi Islam dan Humaniora
• Online Access: http://jurnal.uin-antasari.ac.id/index.php/khazanah/article/view/764

Abstract: Before their encounter with the immigrants, the Balim religious life centered in their honai adat (traditional house). However, since the presence of divine religions, the center of their ritual and spiritual life is devolving to churches or mosques, and marginalizes the role of the honai adat. The presence of divine religions has contributed to peoples way of life, especially in broadening the perspective of the Balim about human beings. The extent of human relations perspective has played a major role in relativizing the influence of traditional values to their ways of thinking and behaving. With few exceptions, the general color manifested in the relationship between the two belief systems is the dominance of the divine religions to local one. Conversion to the divine religions and process of community building in one religion is not merely a faith event, but also part of the cultural process, part of a strategy to open an access to a better life in economy, socio-politics, or even in spiritual aspects. In this case, the divine religions are challenged to present their faces as the ways of salvation which is humane and civilized.