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Title: What religion is in Tana Toraja? Post by: guest on February 10, 2005, 04:09:03 PM What religion is in Tana Toraja?
Title: Re: What religion is in Tana Toraja? Post by: bjorn on February 10, 2005, 04:42:22 PM Their native religion is megalithic and animistic, and is characterized by animal sacrifices, ostentatious funeral rites and huge communal feasts. The Toraja only began to lose faith in their religion after 1909, when Protestant missionaries arrived in the wake of the Dutch colonizers. Nowadays roughly 60% of the Toraja are Christian, and 10% are Muslim; the rest hold in some measure to their original religion.
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