Epistemic Ignorance and the Indonesian Killings of 1965-1966: Righting the Wrongs of the Past and the Role of Faith Community
This study demonstrates how ignorance works in the Indonesian massacres of 1965-1966. This atrocity, which claimed roughly five hundred thousand lives, is one of the most forgotten human tragedies of the twentieth century. For many years, the massacres were hidden from public view. Ignorance was rei...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2019]
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| In: |
Political theology
Year: 2019, Volume: 20, Issue: 3, Pages: 280-295 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Massaker in Indonesien
/ Ignorance
/ Collective memory
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| IxTheo Classification: | CG Christianity and Politics FD Contextual theology KBM Asia |
| Further subjects: | B
mass killings of 1965-1966
B Memory B Lament B Remembrance B Massacres B Political Theology B Moral Theology B Indonesia B Epistemology of ignorance |
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| Summary: | This study demonstrates how ignorance works in the Indonesian massacres of 1965-1966. This atrocity, which claimed roughly five hundred thousand lives, is one of the most forgotten human tragedies of the twentieth century. For many years, the massacres were hidden from public view. Ignorance was reinforced by the New Order under the presidency of Suharto. Drawing on contemporary political philosophers' studies on the epistemology of ignorance, I contend that ignorance, like knowledge, has structures, criteria, and practices. Ignorance, thus, is not merely a "lack of knowledge" or a state of not knowing, but epistemic and political. By appropriating the epistemology of ignorance, I seek to show how the Indonesian people remember the historical wrongs and how Christian theology provides resources for right remembrance. To confront the epistemic ignorance of the Indonesian mass killings, I argue that the churches must assert their identity as the community of memory and lament. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-1719 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Political theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2019.1568705 |