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For hundreds of years, the Iban's ancestors practiced their own traditional custom and pagan religious system. European Christian colonial invaders, after the arrival of James Brooke , led to the influence of European missionaries and conversions to Christianity .
The Iban religion involves worshiping and honouring at least four categories of beings, i.e. Bunsu Petara (the supreme god), and his seven deities (the divine people of Tansang Kenyalang), the holy spirits of Orang Panggau Libau and Gelong, the ghost spirits (Bunsu Antu) and the souls of dead ancestors.
To the Iban, ADAT involves the basic values of life, including their system of agriculture, the code to which their society is ordered, as well as the 'correct' manner of behavior. Additional data in this work pertain to myths, beliefs in spirits, world view, seasonal rice cycles, and major agricultural rituals.
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.
The Iban are currently Christianized and many still observe traditional rituals directed towards ancestors alongside the Christian God. Generally, the Iban are a Dayak people of Borneo. Often referred to as Sea Dayaks in the literature, as opposed to Land Dayaks, due to the Iban gaining a reputation
A new Iban identity was forming in which being Anglican, speaking Iban, and living in Sarawak became significant marks. An individual’s longhouse, river, kaban (clan group) and occupation could sometimes be included, along with status such as tuai rumah in a longhouse or priest in the Church.
The Iban collection consists of 35 English language documents, covering a wide range of ethnographic topics. Predominant themes in the collection are agriculture (primarily rice cultivation), culture history, migrations, religion, and warfare (including much information on head-hunting).
