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This book gives the history of Christians in Indonesia during the Portuguese period (1511-1605), under Dutch colonialism (1605-1942) and more elaborate for the ... Front Matter Download
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There has been large historical growth of Christianity in Indonesia since the 19th century. In the early period, this related to historical missionary work, and in later periods, conversions from Chinese Buddhists and Islam, and population growth.
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.
Jun 5, 2012 · The history of Christianity in Indonesia has been associated with western colonialism; however, based upon the history of the Catholic Church in Indonesia, Christianity appeared in the archipelago about the middle of the seventh century ce, especially in Sumatra and Java, where western nations had not appeared in the archipelago.
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, Jan S. Aritonang
- 2008
Indonesian Muslims usually remain marginal in general handbooks about 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
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In the twentieth century Christianity expanded to the hitherto unproselytized part of Flores, as well as to Timor, Roti and Sawu, Central Sulawesi, and among the Chinese minority. Both the colonial and the modern Indonesian state are intertwined with the developments undergone by Christianity.
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