Analysis of Christian Inculturation to Javanese Culture on Catholic Church Built on the Dutch Colonial Period (Studi Kasus : the Church of Sacred Heart, Pugeran, YOGYAKARTA)

There were some architectural and interior changes in some Yogyakarta’s Catholic churches built around the period of early Catholic expansion and development in Indonesia. These changes occurred because of the contact between Catholic’s religion concepts and values with Javanese local culture. These changes obviously happened with the influence of Catholic missionary situation, also political and socio-cultural situation in Yogyakarta at that time, which created churches with Javanese characteristics. And these physical appearance changes in the church buildings occurred in certain pattern tha... Mehr ...