Abstract
This paper explores the complexities of the contested political terrain in Malaysia that abounds in multiple faultlines within Peninsular Malaysia and between East and Peninsu- lar Malaysia. The resultant rupture occasioned by the Allah controversy shored up the in- tricate interplay and asymmetrical relations between the dominant ‘fictitious self’ and sub- jugated ‘fragmented self’ of the minority ethnic and religious communities. Such rupture calls for a reconciliatory praxis by which the ‘subjugated and dominant self’ concertedly work towards restorative and structure justice instead of the pretentious simulationof a fictitious unity under 1Malaysia. Amidst the political upheavals, the Christians of the frag- mented indigenous communities constantly negotiate their hybridized or multiple identi- ties embedded in their crossed religiocultural traditions. By “traditioning,” the indigenous traditions embrace the diverse religious and local traditions through ‘multiple participa- tion’ while their multiple identitiesremainstaunchly grounded in the Christian faith
Recommended Citation
Fung, Jojo M. SJ
(2015)
"Multiple Faultlines and Identity of Indigenous Christians/Catholics in Malaysia,"
Kritika Kultura:
No.
25, Article 10.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13185/1656-152x.1648
Available at:
https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss25/10
