Sebayan: Iban Belief about the Afterlife and the Anglican Mission in Sarawak 1848-1968.
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THE SARAWAK MUSEUM JOURNAL |
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Title :
Sebayan: Iban Belief about the Afterlife and the Anglican Mission in Sarawak 1848-1968. |
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Author :
Peter Varney |
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Abstract:
I. TRADITIONAL IBAN BELIEF IN SEBAYAN Anglican work in Sarawak began in 1848, at a time of great support for mission agencies in the Church of England, and the first mission in an Iban area was set up in 1851. The Borneo Church Mission Institution (B.C.M.I), set up with Rajah James Brooke's encouragement in 1846, merged with the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (S.P.G.) in 1851.2 S.P.G sent mission personnel to Sarawak throughout the period of Brooke and colonial rule, and for some years after. In 1968, five years after Sarawak was included in the Federation of Malaysia, the Anglican Church had its first Sarawakian bishop, Basil Temengong, an Iban from the Saribas, and it became fully autonomous when it joined the Church of the Province of South East Asia in 1996. The major part of this paper records the dynamic interaction between Iban religion and Christianity, as recorded by the Anglican missionaries, from 1848 to 1968. The latter part of the paper is based on how Saribas Iban described their belief at the time when the Anglican Church had its first local bishop.
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| DOI: https://doi.org/10.61507/smj22-2010-VAA4-01 |
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How to cite:
Peter Varney. (2010). Sebayan: Iban Belief about the Afterlife and the Anglican Mission in Sarawak 1848-1968. The Sarawak Museum Journal, LXVII (88): 1-23 |
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