Multiple Faultlines and Identity of Indigenous Christians/Catholics in Malaysia

• Main Author: Fung, Jojo M., SJ
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: Assymmetric Plurality; Crossed Tradition; “Fictitious Self; ” Hybridized Identities; Subjugated “Fragmented Self; ” Subjugated Reconciliatory Praxis; “Traditioning”
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss25/10; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/1648/viewcontent/_5BKKv00n25_2015_5D_203.5_ForumKritika_FungSJ.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

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