Pdt. Izak Lattu, Ph.D.

Pdt. Izak Lattu, Ph.D.

izak.lattu@uksw.edu

Jl. Diponegoro No. 52–60, Salatiga, Central Java, Indonesia 50711

Bidang Minat: Teologi Agama-agama, Agama dan Perdamaian.

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Education
2010–2014

Ph.D in Interdisciplinary Study of Religion: Civic Engagements in Social Scientific Studies of Religion and Collective Memory in Folklore Studies, the Graduate Theological Union affiliated the University of California, Berkeley, USA (Under Fulbright Scholarship)

Dissertation: "Orality and Interreligious Engagement: The Role of Collective Memory in Christian-Muslim Relationships in Maluku, Indonesia." Advisers: Professor Judith Berling; Professor Clare B. Fischer; Professor Sylvia Tiwon.

2013–2014
Pre-Doctoral Program, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard University, USA.
2000-2002
M.A. Comparative Religious Studies (Center for Religious and Cross-cultural Studies) Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia
1994 - 1999
S.Si (B.Sc) Sociology of Religion Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana, Indonesia
Research Interests

Interfaith Relationships, Democracy and Civic Engagement, Collective Memory and Peacebuilding

Work Experience
2004 - present
Lecturer, Undergraduate, Master of Arts, and PhD program in Theology and Sociology of Religion; Master of Science and PhD Program in Development Studies, Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana, Indonesia.
2021 - 2022
Visiting Research Fellow, Rutgers International Institute for Peace, Rutgers University, Newark.
2018 - present
Visiting Professor on Interreligious Dialogue at Center for Religious and Cross-cultural Studies, Gadjah Mada University
2020 - present
Visiting Professor on “Religion in America,” Area Studies of America, Graduate Program, The University of Indonesia.
Summer 2016
Visiting Professor, European Forum Alpbach, Austria, “Religion and Power” (Graduate Course)
Fall 2014
Adjunct Faculty, The Graduate Theological Union, Affiliated the University of California, Berkeley, USA, “Christian Minorities and Peace” (Graduate Course).
2013 – 2014
Researcher, Ash Center, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University “Religion and Democracy in Everyday Engagement.”
2018 – present
Assessor of Indonesian Higher Education Accreditation Board (BAN-PT).
Award/Honor
2022
International Research Network for the Study of Science and Belief in Society
2022
DIKTI Grant for Social Empowerment
2020
Dialogue Institute, US State Department Grant on Democracy and Pluralism
2016
European Forum Alpbach Teaching Grant
2010 – 2013
Fulbright PhD Scholarship
2013 – 2014
Harvard Kennedy School Dissertation Writing Scholarship
2014
Newhall Teaching Grant
2012
The Graduate Theological Union Travel Grant
2011
Virginia Hadshell Global Interreligious Dialogue Award
2005
United Board IASACT Grant
2000 – 2002
Templeton Foundation MA Scholarship
2000
Faculty of Theology, Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana, Graduate of the Year
1996
International Christian Student Undergraduate Scholarship
Conference Presentations and Relevant Publications
Selected Presentations
  • 2014, “The Forest of Symbol in Malukan Interreligious Engagement.” Asian Summer Theological Institute, Lutheran School of Theology, Philadelphia.
  • 2014, “Imagine Citizenry in Christian-Muslims Conflict in Maluku.” Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University.
  • 2013, “Storytelling and Resistance: Joke and the Struggle against Political Hegemony in Papua.” Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University.
  • 2013, “Play, Performance, and Peace: Youth Working for Peace in Poso and Ambon, Indonesia”. Invited Speaker, the Center for Southeast Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
  • 2012, “Soccer, Ritual Performance, and Papuan National Identity,” Guest Presenter at Malay and Indonesian Literatures Class, The University of California, Berkeley.
  • 2012, “Collective Memory for Christian-Muslim Dialogue in Maluku,” Presented Paper at American Academy of Religion, Annual Conference, Chicago.
  • 2012, “Imagined Reconciliation: The Role of Folksong in Malukan Indigenous Peacebuilding.” Invited Speaker, the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • 2012, “Collective Memory and Civic Engagements in Indonesia,” Presented paper at The 9th Northeast Conference on Indonesia, Cornell University.
  • 2011, “Pela, Culture and Communal Reconciliation in Moluccas-Indonesia: A Christian Perspective.” Presented paper at Canadian Society for Southeast Asian Studies Annual Conference, University of Toronto, Canada.
  • 2011, “Pela as a Local Conflict Resolution Model in Maluku-Indonesia.” Presented paper at International Conference on Conflict Resolution, Lancester University, UK.
  • 2011, “Fundamentalisms and the Challenges of Christian-Muslim Relationship in Indonesia.” Invited Speaker at Fica-Center for Strategic Studies, Chicago.
  • 2010, “A Brief Study of Hans Kung’s Theory of Religious Dialogue against Thomas Kuhn’s Paradigm Shift Theory”. Presented paper at, Fulbright International Student Conference at The University of Pennsylvania.
  • 2009, “Youth Center‘s Role in Poso Peacebuilding Process,” Invited Speaker at Gadjah Mada University.
  • 2006, “Globalization and Religious Conflict in Moluccas Indonesia.” Presented paper at International Seminar on Religion and Globalization. Australian Theological Forum.
  • 2005, “In Search of In Search of a Religious Mutual Relationship in Maluku-Indonesia: Learning from Pela-Gandong’ Alliance between Muslim Negeri (Latu) - Christian Negeri (Honitetu)”, Presented paper at Institute of Advanced Studies in Asian Cultures and Theologies, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Selected Journal Articles
  • Izak Lattu, “Culture and Christian-Muslim Dialogue in Maluku, Indonesia.” Interreligious Insight: Journal of Dialogue and Engagements 10, no 1 (July 2012): 45  - 52.
  • Izak Lattu, “Identity and Reconciliation in Interfaith Peacebuilding Narrative: An Interdisciplinary Perspective.” Journal of Asian and Asian American Theology 11 (2012): 1 -18.
  • Izak Lattu, “On Seeking for Democracy and Religious Pluralism Mutual Engagement in Indonesia.” Waskita, Journal of Religion and Society Studies 2, no. 1 (April 2005) : 59 – 79.
  • Izak Lattu, “In search of the Relationship between Democracy and “The Acceptance Model in Interfaith Dialogue.” Jurnal Bina Darma 21, no. 1 (April 2004)  : 22 – 40.
  • Izak Lattu, “New Christian Mission in the Context of Civil Society and Interreligious Engagement in Indonesia.” Jurnal Teologi Indonesia 8 (April 2010) : 21 – 40.
  • Izak Lattu, “Tsunami and Global Dialogue based on the Suffering Others.” Journal Bina Darma 23, no. 2 (September 2006) : 97 – 118.
Books
  • 2009. Editor, Lampu Merah Nationalisme Indonesia: Mengkaji Kebangkitan Fundamentalism dan Neo-Liberalisme (Qua Vadis Indonesian Nationalism: Exploring the Resurgence of Fundamentalism and Neo-Liberalism). Bina Dharma Foundation, Salatiga.
  • 2005, Editor and a Chapter Author, Format Rekonstruksi Kekristenan Indonesia (A Reconstruction’s Format of Christianity in Indonesia) Critical Engagement Kekristenan di Indonesia  (Critical Engagement of Indonesian Christianity), p 1 – 15. Pernerbit Sinar Harapan, Jakarta.
Selected Edited Books
  • Sumanto Al-Qurtuby and Izak Lattu, Perempuan dan Budaya Nusantara Jilid II. Semarang. eLSA Press 2022.
  • Izak Lattu, eds., (editor), Crossing the Boundaries: Covid-19 Pandemic, Social Solidarity and Interreligious Engagement in Indonesia. Salatiga: Satya Wacana University Press, 2021.
  • Izak Lattu and Tedi Kholiludin, (editor), Agama dan Budaya Nusantara Pasca Kristenisasi (Semarang: eLSA Press, 2020)
  • Izak Lattu, eds., (editor), Agama, Politik Identitas & Keberpihakan Negara. Jakarta: ICRP Indonesian Conference on Religion and Peace, 2020.
  • Izak Lattu, eds., (editor), Menyemai Pluralisme dan Demokrasi di Perguruan Tinggi: Pengalaman UKSW. Salatiga: Satya Wacana University Press, 2019.
  • Obed Umbu Kaballu, Izak Lattu, , Suryaningsi Milla, (editor), Bagi Tuhan Jangan Ditunda: Teks Kehidupan Kekristenan di Sumba, Satya Wacana University Press, 2019.
  • Sumanto Al-Qurtuby and Izak Lattu, (editor), Tradisi dan Kebudayaan Nusantara,” Elsa Press, 2019.
  • Izak Lattu, eds., (editor), Mozaik Moderasi Beragama dalam Perspektif Kristen. Jakarta: BPK Gunung Mulia dan Bimas Kristen, Departemen Agama RI, 2018.
  • Izak Lattu, eds., (editor), 25 Tahun Sosiologi Agama Menjadi Pilihan Berteologi di Indonesia. Salatiga: Satya Wacana University Press, 2016.
  • Jacob D. Engel and Izak Lattu, Penelitian & Penulisan Karya Ilmiah Teologi. Salatiga: Satya Wacana University Press, 2015.
  • Izak Lattu, eds., (editor), Format Rekonstruksi Kekristenan: Menggagas Teologi, Misiologi dan Ekklesiologi Kontekstual di Indonesia. Jakarta: Pustaka Sinar Harapan, 2006.
Selected Book Chapters:
  • Izak Lattu, “Ante-Sacred-Space and Interreligious Sphere in Covid-19 ICU Room: An Authoetnography Approach,” in Interconnectivity, Subversion, and Healing in World Christianity, Afe Adogame and Aminta Arrington, eds (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023 - Forthcoming).
  • Izak Lattu, “Click-Holy Communion: Covid-19 and Online Sacred Sphere in Indonesia Christian Rituals,” in Routledge International Handbook for Sociology and Christianity, Dennis Hiebert, ed (London: Routledge, 2023 - Forthcoming)
  • Izak Lattu and Irene Ludji, “Listening to the Voice from the Social Margin: Sam-ae and Folklore in Local Theology,” Sam-ae as and Political Theology, Chammah Kaunda, ed (Seoul: Yonsei University Press, 2023 – Forthcoming)
  • Izak Lattu, “Folkloric Sacred Text as Political Theology,” Asia and Pacific Political Theology, Kwok Pui Lan, ed (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2023 - Forthcoming)
  • Izak Lattu and Fatimah Husein, “From Interreligious Dialogue to Interreligious Engagement: Pengalaman Mengajar di CRCS UGM,” Interreligious Studies in Indonesia, Zainal Bagir, ed. Yogya: ICRS UGM, 2023 (Forthcoming)
  • Izak Lattu, “Menggugat Majoritanisme, Menegaskan Covenantal Pluralism Indonesia,” dalam Riwanto Tirtosudarmo dan Nasionalisme yang Rileks: Festschrift 70 Tahun Riwanto Tirtosudarmo (Jakarta: Kompas Press, 2023 - Forthcoming).
  • Izak Lattu, “Covid-19, Religiositas dan Relasi Lintas Agama di Indonesia,” dalam Crossing the Boundaries: Covid-19 Pandemic, Social Solidarity and Interreligious Engagement in Indonesia, P. Jessy Ismoyo, et. al. (Salatiga, Satya Wacana University Press, 2021).
  • Izak Lattu, “Planting Seeds of Peace in the Multicultural Society” in Mariska Lauterboom, eds., Religion: A Text Book for Undergraduate Students. Salatiga: Satya Wacana Christian University Press, 2015.
  • Izak Lattu, “Performative Interreligious Engagement,” in Izak Lattu, eds, Sociology of Religion: Pilihan Berteologi di Indonesia. Salatiga: Satya Wacana University Press, 2016.
  • Izak Lattu and Mick Mordekhai Sopacoly, “Imago Dei Belajar: Kebebasan Berpikir dan Creative Minority dalam Pembelajaran di Perguruan Tinggi,” in Manusia Berkarakter, Riris Johanna Siagian & Tedi Kholiludin. Pematang Siantar: L-SAPIKA Indonesia Press, 2021.
  • Izak Lattu, “Teologi Tanpa Tinta: Mencari Logos Melalui Etnografi dan Folklore,” dalam Membangun Gereja Sebagai Gerakan Yang Cerdas dan Solider: Apresiasi Terhadap Kegembalaan Ignatius Kardinal Suharyo, Fransiskus Purwanto, SCJ dan Agustinus T. E.Warsono, eds (Yogyakarta: Sanata Dharma University Press, 2020).
Selected Newspaper Articles
  • 2012, Violence against Indigenous Religion. The Jakarta Post, January 2.
  • 2011, An Irony to Religious Tolerance. The Jakarta Post, November 20.
  • 2011, “Menolak Narasi Kekerasan.” Negating the Violence Narrative. Suara Pembaruan, October 2011.
  • 2011,” Violence Doesn’t Have a Religion.” The Jakarta Post, September 30.
  • 2010, “Budaya, Agama, dan Politik Transmigran Jawa di Maluku.” Culture, Religion and the Politics of Javanese Migrant in Maluku. Suara Merdeka March 21.
  • 2006, “Habermas, Anarkisme dan Pilkada.”Habermas, Anarchism, and Local Election. Siwalima Daily, Ambon, Moluccas. July 3.
  • 2002 “Perspektif Agama dalam Integrasi Bangsa.” Religious Perspective of A National Integration.  Solo Pos Daily, Solo. April 14.
Fellowships and Grants
2014
Newhall Teaching Award, The Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley
2013 – 2014
Dissertation Writing Scholarship, Harvard University
2010 – 2014
Fulbright PhD Scholarship
2012
The Graduate Theological Union Travel and Research Grant Award.
2011
Virginia Hadshell Young Global Church Leader Scholarship in Interfaith Relationship and Civic Engagement.
2011
The Graduate Theological Union Travel and Research Grant Award.
2006
Scholar of United Board for Human Rights Studies in Manila, the Philippines.
2005
Asian Christian Higher Education Research Grant.
2000-2002
Templeton Foundation for Religious Studies Graduate Student.
Languages

Bahasa Indonesia, English, Dutch, Read Classical Hebrew and Classical Greek.