Religious and Cultural Harmonies in the Art of Masamper
<p><em>This paper tries to track a potential religious harmony through a local tradition namely the art of Masamper in Sangir community. This study uses a qualitative- descriptive method to reveal the religious aspect in Art Masamper by first doing a study observations of implementation art in society, to further explore the values of divinity contained in Masamper process, to keep watching the dialectic of art and religion that were rolling.</em> <em>As one of the cultural-religious studies, this study is not an experimental research seeking a rule, but an interpretive research that searches for meaning.</em> <em>So that any meaning contained in the overall aspect of Masamper (processes, and religious dialectic of culture) becomes the point of analysis obtained from the observation, in-depth interviews, and a review of literatures related to discourse analysis.</em> <em>The results showed that Masamper as one of the remains of the ancestral cultural arts in Sangir society, other than as a means of proselytism, it also becomes one of the adhesives socio-religious harmony in North Sulawesi. Masamper can dilute the differences in beliefs into a cultural engagement through art performances which invites the public to appreciate each other in the name of culture and mutual respect in the practice of religious beliefs</em><em>.</em><em></em></p>