Multiple Faultlines and Identity of Indigenous Christians/Catholics in Malaysia

This paper explores the complexities of the contested political terrain in Malaysia thatabounds in multiple faultlines within Peninsular Malaysia and between East and PeninsularMalaysia. The resultant rupture occasioned by the Allah controversy shored up the intricateinterplay and asymmetrical relations between the dominant ‘fictitious self’ and subjugated‘fragmented self’ of the minority ethnic and religious communities. Such rupturecalls for a reconciliatory praxis by which the ‘subjugated and dominant self’ concertedlywork towards restorative and structure justice instead of the pretentious simulationof afictitious unity under 1Malaysia. Amidst the political upheavals, the Christians of the fragmentedindigenous communities constantly negotiate their hybridized or multiple identitiesembedded in their crossed religiocultural traditions. By “traditioning,” the indigenoustraditions embrace the diverse religious and local traditions through ‘multiple participation’while their multiple identitiesremainstaunchly grounded in the Christian faith