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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.
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 .
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.
5 maj 2023 · Iban Religion. While most Iban people of today are Christian or Muslim, the tribe was traditionally animist.
Ibans (Bornean people) This is an ethnographic account of '…Iban behavior, the religious beliefs which are the basis for their way of life, the framework within which these exist, and the ends to which they are directed' (p. 5).
The late Henry Gana Ngadi's Iban Rites of Passage and Some Related Ritmi Acts is an attempt to explain the events Iban individuals go through to gain entry into each stage of the Iban life cycle.
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
