“No Eden Without Its Serpent?”: Tracing Colonial Discourses in the Early Missionary Writings and the Development of Adventist Theological Education in Indonesia
Through this article, I endeavor to foreground the topic of colonial education by focusing on how missionaries manifested a colonial mindset in the realm of theological education in Indonesia. This article begins by tracing the colonial discourses of the early missionaries through missionaries’ repo...
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| description | Through this article, I endeavor to foreground the topic of colonial education by focusing on how missionaries manifested a colonial mindset in the realm of theological education in Indonesia. This article begins by tracing the colonial discourses of the early missionaries through missionaries’ reports, newsletters, and other historical sources. It continues by delineating the colonial discourses in the development of the Seventh-Day Adventist (SDA) system of education. This survey shows how colonial discourses such as the discourse of othering, anti-conquest ideology, binary hierarchies, hegemonic mindsets, cultural imperialism, reproduction of workers, and a strict disciplinary system are present in the development of SDA theological education in Indonesia. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-81da6e0c54d2437d83d30ee8596cc5892025-08-20T02:43:06ZengMDPI AGReligions2077-14442025-02-0116327610.3390/rel16030276“No Eden Without Its Serpent?”: Tracing Colonial Discourses in the Early Missionary Writings and the Development of Adventist Theological Education in IndonesiaLudwig Beethoven J. Noya0Christ College, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN 46383, USAThrough this article, I endeavor to foreground the topic of colonial education by focusing on how missionaries manifested a colonial mindset in the realm of theological education in Indonesia. This article begins by tracing the colonial discourses of the early missionaries through missionaries’ reports, newsletters, and other historical sources. It continues by delineating the colonial discourses in the development of the Seventh-Day Adventist (SDA) system of education. This survey shows how colonial discourses such as the discourse of othering, anti-conquest ideology, binary hierarchies, hegemonic mindsets, cultural imperialism, reproduction of workers, and a strict disciplinary system are present in the development of SDA theological education in Indonesia.https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/16/3/276colonialismAdventismmissionarieseducation |
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| title | “No Eden Without Its Serpent?”: Tracing Colonial Discourses in the Early Missionary Writings and the Development of Adventist Theological Education in Indonesia |
| title_full | “No Eden Without Its Serpent?”: Tracing Colonial Discourses in the Early Missionary Writings and the Development of Adventist Theological Education in Indonesia |
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| title_short | “No Eden Without Its Serpent?”: Tracing Colonial Discourses in the Early Missionary Writings and the Development of Adventist Theological Education in Indonesia |
| title_sort | no eden without its serpent tracing colonial discourses in the early missionary writings and the development of adventist theological education in indonesia |
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