Indigenous Indonesian Catholics increased in number from 27,000 to nearly 550,000 between 1902 and 1942. At first scattered only through Minahasa, the Kai islands and Flores, after four decades Catholic centres were established in most of the archipelago, and there was even a sm…
Indigenous Indonesian Catholics increased in number from 27,000 to nearly 550,000 between 1902 and 1942. At first scattered only through Minahasa, the Kai islands and Flores, after four decades Catholic centres were established in most of the archipelago, and there was even a sm…
"Women run screaming from their village at night, leaving all their clothes behind - possessed by spirits of the wilderness, they climb up a barana' tree. It is but one of the fascinating rituals of the Toraja people described in this study." "The Toraja people live in the mount…
