Re-Defining Youth Religion: The Search for a Home for the Identity of Youth in Komunitas Tritunggal Mahakudus

Wednesday Forum – 21 Oct 2020

Komunitas Tritunggal Mahakudus (KTM) is a Catholic charismatic community with a focus on renewal within Church. Although following similar practices to those within the Pentecostal Churches, KTM maintains its unity with the Catholic Church through sharing the same narratives, but at the same time collectively reimagining what constitutes a pious and committed Catholic. To do this, it pursues a politics of recognition both in front of the Catholic Church at the macro-level and its targeted members at the micro-level. This talk will explore the way this community provides Catholics with a home for their identity. It will examine how the KTM personally engages with the Catholic community which enables them to attract youth to join them and maintain their loyalties.

Martinus Joko Lelono is a Catholic priest in charge of the interfaith committee of the Catholic Church in Yogyakarta. He just finished his doctoral program at the Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies (ICRS). The topic of this talk is derived from his dissertation at ICRS regarding the Pentecostal movements within the Catholic Church in Indonesia. He focuses on field construction as a layer of religious identity.

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