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In Christianity, a schism occurs when a single religious body divides and becomes two separate religious bodies. The split can be violent or nonviolent but results in at least one of the two newly-created bodies considering itself distinct from the other.
Islam. Its Christian community, about 9% of the population, has received no overall description in English. It was mostly Dutch and German, besides Indo-nesian, surveys that pictured the solid and sometimes exceptional development of global Christianity in this country, fourth in the world as to population
This book sketches the growth of Christianity during the Portuguese period (1511-1605), it presents a fair account of developments under the Dutch colonial administration (1605-1942) and is more elaborate for the period of the Indonesian Republic (since 1945).
- Karel Steenbrink
- August 31, 2008
Religion plays an important part in modern Indonesia. To understand its contemporary outlook, this chapter offers a historical sketch of the arrival and development of religion. It proposes that the process involves three important stages, namely syncretism, polarisation, and Islamisation.
A History of Christianity in Indonesia is encyclopedic, as the editors admit (p. vii). Ranging over more than one thousand pages, it traces the story of Indonesian Christianity from its earliest signs in the ninth century (pp. 4-6) to 2005.
Category:Schisms in Christianity. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. Subcategories. This category has the following 8 subcategories, out of 8 total. De Afscheiding van 1834 (44 F) East–West Schism (3 C) Jansenism (8 C, 28 F) Judaizers (18 F) Nontrinitarianism (4 C) Old Calendarists (4 C)
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This book sketches the growth of Christianity during the Portuguese period (1511-1605), it presents a fair account of developments under the Dutch colonial administration (1605-1942) and is more elaborate for the period of the Indonesian Republic (since 1945).
