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Religion and belief. For hundreds of years, the ancestors of the Iban practiced animistic beliefs, although after the arrival of James Brooke, many were influenced by European missionaries and converted to Christianity.
Numerous local people and certain missionaries have sought to document and preserve traditional Dayak religious practices. For example, Reverend William Howell contributed numerous articles on the Iban language, lore, and culture between 1909 and 1910 to the Sarawak Gazette.
Beliefs and Mythology. The Iban people adhere to a traditional belief system known as Iban religion, with elements of animism, ancestor worship, and a complex pantheon of gods and spirits. Their cosmology consists of three realms: the Upperworld, the Middleworld, and the Underworld.
21 lut 2019 · In this paper, we describe one such society, the Iban, whose religious practices are often claimed to not include the worship of ancestors, despite ancestors being central to their religion.
28 gru 2023 · In this paper, we describe one such society, the Iban, whose religious practices are often claimed to not include the worship of ancestors, despite ancestors being central to their religion.
This chapter looks at beliefs and practices associated with spirits among two peoples: the Kelabit of the Kelabit Highlands, Sarawak, who live at the headwaters of the Baram River, and the Eastern Penan, who live to the east of the Baram River in areas surrounding the Kelabit Highlands.
Iban religion is a product of a holistic approach to life, in which attention is paid to all events in the waking and sleeping states. The religion involves an all-embracing causality, born of the Iban conviction that "nothing happens without cause."
