Cultural Harmonization: Religious and Inter-Cultural Relations in Calengsai Arts

Aqiel Sifa' Abdallah Putra; Mutohar Lutfi; Okta Fiani; Rico Anggit Prakoso

doi:10.31091/mudra.v40i4.3114

Cultural Harmonization: Religious and Inter-Cultural Relations in Calengsai Arts

Authors

Aqiel Sifa' Abdallah Putra Center for Religious and Cross-cultural Studies, Graduate School, Universitas Gadjah Mada https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2836-0182
Mutohar Lutfi English Literature, Faculty of Cultural Sciences and Communication, Universitas Muhammadiyah Purwokerto
Okta Fiani English Literature, Faculty of Cultural Sciences and Communication, Universitas Muhammadiyah Purwokerto
Rico Anggit Prakoso English Literature, Faculty of Cultural Sciences and Communication, Universitas Muhammadiyah Purwokerto

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31091/mudra.v40i4.3114

Keywords:

Calengsai Performance Art, Intercultural Dialog, Symbolic Rituals, Inter-Cultural Relationship, Cultural Harmonization

Abstract

The existence of Indonesian cultures and arts are rich in thought that is extraordinary to be explored, one of them is the typical Banyumas performance art, namely Calengsai (Calung, Lengger, and Barongsai), which is a local wisdom with a myriad of exploration sides for the people. This research tries to re-explore a Calengsai from the perspective of religious and intercultural relations, which mostly previous researchers only focus on the cultural and tourism aspects. This re-exploration of religious and intercultural studies is focus on model of cultural harmonization which purposed to break the conflict in the inter-cultural aspect that exist in Calengsai. The descriptive qualitative analysis is applied on this research to help the researchers to explore the evidence of the data which taken from the field collection. The study finds that Calengsai acts as a ‘third space’ of cultural hybridity where Javanese and Chinese traditions met through shared spiritual rituals, offering a scientific contribution to postcolonial and symbolic-interactionist scholarship by revealing how art creates new intercultural meanings.

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