Embers Of The Cross In Lost Heaven: Cultural Intimacy In The Balinese Catholic Community In Palasari Village In The 1930s

This paper examines the historical portrait of the Catholic community in Palasari. They are Balinese Hindus from southern Bali who migrated to Palasari for reasons of customary sanctions. They received the sanctions from the traditional institutions in southern Bali which did not allow the conversion of faith. Missie activity in southern Bali in the fourth decade of the twentieth century through health and education services led to massive religious conversion. The prohibition of religious conversion, on the other hand, the increase in the phenomenon of religious conversion has caused social conflict in the form of customary sanctions against anyone who converts from Hinduism to Catholicism. Such sanctions are, for example, in the form of revocation of rights to use Balinese cultural identities and attributes. Because the Catholic community in southern Bali, although they have changed their faith but still use Balinese traditions, in order to avoid the wider conflict, they finally chose to migrate to west Bali. Clearing the forest and establishing a village which is now known as Palasari village.