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European traders and missionaries around the 1500s
- Christianity’s roots in Indonesia trace back to the arrival of European traders and missionaries around the 1500s. The Portuguese and the Dutch introduced Christianity to the archipelago, intertwining religious conversion with colonial ambitions.
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Indonesia is home to the largest Christian community made up of converts from their former Islamic faith; according to various sources, since the mid and late 1960s, between 2 and 2.5 million Muslims have converted to Christianity.
Most of the primary and even secondary sources of Indonesian Christian history were either in Malay, Indonesian, or local languages of Indonesia. Additional sources were in Dutch and German, and, in earlier years, in Portuguese and Spanish.
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
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
Th is book aims to give an encyclopaedic view of the varied history of Chris-tians in Indonesia. It sketches the few Christians of the pre-colonial period, the growth of some Christian communities during the Portuguese period (1511–1605), and it endeavours to present a fair account of developments
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.
