HALELUYA TIMBO HUTABARAT 187 GEMA TEOLOGIKA Vol. 5 No. 2, Oktober 2020 CONTAMINATED HOLY MESSAGE A Review on the Postcolonial Approach of Sugirtharajah and the Context of Indonesia Abstract The history of religions records the existence of persistent violence in religions. Many rulers, with the help of clergies, misuse sacred texts for their conquering interests. The coming of Christianity to Indonesia was linked to Western colonialism with its exploitating ambition. To date, the fruit of the agenda of misusing Scriptures can still be found in the theology and traditions of the Indonesian churches. This study presents the post-colonial biblical criticism of Sugirtharajah as an inclusive, collaborative hermeneutic umbrella for efforts to liberate texts, traditions, and contexts of Indonesia. Rasiah S. Sugirtharajah has pioneered the post-colonial biblical criticism as a hermeneutics that criticizes domination and alienation. This study looks at the relevance of Sugirtharajah’s thinking for the context of Indonesian Christianity. The methods used include qualitative literature review on the post- colonial publication in Indonesia to find out the progress of the existing post-colonial hermeneutic works. Keywords: postcolonial biblical criticism, Sugirtharajah, hermeneutics, Indonesian church. PESAN SUCI YANG TERKONTAMINASI Suatu Tinjauan atas Pendekatan Pascakolonial Sugirtharajah dan Konteks Indonesia Abstrak Sejarah agama-agama mencatat hadirnya kekerasan secara persisten. Penguasa, dengan bantuan rohaniwan, sering kali menyisipkan © HALELUYA TIMBO HUTABARAT DOI: 10.21460/gema. 2020.52.578 This work is licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial 4.0 International Licence. Penulis: Haleluya Timbo Hutabarat Afiliasi: Universitas Kristen Duta Wacana Korespondensi: timbo@staff.ukdw.ac.id