Cindy the “Princess,” Serve Church and School

“After they evaluated me, they saw an insightful person, and my analysis is rooted when I analyze church and outside the church,” Cindy said, a CRCS 2006 alumna, when asked about the benefit she earned in studying at CRCS.

She works fulltime at Gereja Kristen Indonesia (GKI) ‘Bromo’ in Malang, Jawa Timur. She also has a big responsibility in managing education at a church and the Christian Education Foundation ‘Kamerdi.’

This woman...

Workshop on Research Methodology Religion and Natural Disasters II

On March 8-10, 2010, CRCS held its annual workshop on Methodology of Religious Studies and Natural Disasters. It was still held at the House Master of Management (MM) at UGM just like in 2009. The said workshop was a debriefing of the selected researchers to obtain the grant from CRCS on Disaster Research with integrative studies on Science, Religion, and Culture.

Some of the speakers came from a variety of cross-disciplinary...

Gender of Queer from Religious Perspectives

The interesting topic delivered during the Wednesday Forum on March 3, 2010 was given by Maesur Zaky from the PKBI (Indonesian Family Planning Center) in Yogyakarta. During the forum, Maria Ingrid Nabubhoga, the foreign-students host, acted as moderator.

In the forum, Zaky built an argument that religion is often placed in a dichotomous system. As a result, almost all approaches in life are divided into two categories: true and false, black and...

“Women Literature, Sexuality and Religiosity”

The presentation given last Wednesday Forum held on February 24, 2010 was presented by Mita Chandria, an ICRS-Yogya student, and the moderator was Mega Hidayati, who is also an ICRS-Yogya student. Mita presented the three novels written by two writers entitled “Women Literature, Sexuality and Religiosity.” She perceived that contemporary female writers Ayu Utami and Dee (Dewi Lestari) have ignited pros and contras among Indonesian literary critics because they have openly discussed (female) sexuality in...