Role of the Christian Women in the Minahasa Evangelical Christian Church to Guarding Harmony in Manado
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- 10.2991/assehr.k.201209.016How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Christian women of GMIM, GMIM, Minahasa
- Abstract
North Sulawesi is a province where the religion of the majority of the population is Christianity and the second largest religion is Islam. Interaction with various nations has occurred for a long time ago, as a result the Minahasa community tends to have practiced the equality values of gender, racial, ethnic and cultural equality. Women have tremendous potential to foster a culture of religious harmony. The Minahasa Evangelical Christian Church (GMIM) is a Protestant Christian church with the largest congregation about 35% of the total population of North Sulawesi Province. The research purpose aims to determine the role of Christian women of the Minahasa Evangelical Christian Church in guarding harmony in Manado. And to find out the obstacles that the Christian women of the Minahasa Evangelical Christian Church in guarding harmony in Indonesia. In this research the researchers used the case study research method. This research used several data collection methods of interviews, library research and online data tracking.The conclusion is there are no specific activities for the GMIM Christian women in carrying out concrete activities to maintain harmony. They generally join in other women’s organizations such as PKK (family empowerment and welfare program). Several GMIM Christian women activists are sent to organize the School of Pluralism. In each class the participants learn briefly to get to know the teachings of Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Confucianism and Hinduism. The concept the program put forward is peace in differences and differences in brotherhood.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
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TY - CONF AU - Suzy Azeharie AU - Wulan Purnama Sari PY - 2020 DA - 2020/12/12 TI - Role of the Christian Women in the Minahasa Evangelical Christian Church to Guarding Harmony in Manado BT - Proceedings of the 2nd Tarumanagara International Conference on the Applications of Social Sciences and Humanities (TICASH 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 128 EP - 133 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201209.016 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.201209.016 ID - Azeharie2020 ER -