From social shame to spiritual shame: On the rite of confession of guilt and sin in Toraja

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies

 
 
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Title From social shame to spiritual shame: On the rite of confession of guilt and sin in Toraja
 
Creator Rumbi, Frans P. Weismann, Ivan T.J. Ronda, Daniel Panggarra, Robi Camerling, Yosua F.
 
Subject — confession of guilt; social shame; spiritual shame; sin; Toraja
Description This study examines the shame that drives the rite of confession of guilt and sin in the Toraja tradition and then dialogues with the Christian faith. In this study, a qualitative research method was used with an ethnographic approach. Observations and interviews were conducted with figures who knew the topic. The results show that Toraja people experience collective shame when community members commit moral violations. A sense of shame before others or social shame is felt. However, spiritual shame is an aspect that cannot be ignored. Behind the social violations, there are efforts to interpret the relationship with God (Toraja language, Puang Matua), which needs to be brought back to lead people to repentance.Contribution: This article combines tradition and theology, particularly missional and contextual theology. The results of this study are expected to increase the efforts of each respondent to interpret God in every social violation committed to lead people to repentance.
 
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Contributor Institut Agama Kristen Negeri Toraja Sekolah Tinggi Filsafat Jaffray Makassar
Date 2022-12-19
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — —
Format text/html application/epub+zip text/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/hts.v78i1.7855
 
Source HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies; Vol 78, No 1 (2022); 8 pages 2072-8050 0259-9422
 
Language eng
 
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Rights Copyright (c) 2022 Frans P. Rumbi, Ivan T. J Weismann, Daniel Ronda, Robi Panggarra, Yosua F. Camerling https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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