Myengkyo Seo

State Management of Religion in Indonesia (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the management of religion in Indonesia. It discusses how Christianity has developed in Indonesia, how the state, though Muslim in outlook and culture, is nevertheless formally secular, and how the principal Christian church, the Java Christian Church, has adapted its practices to fit local circumstances.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135037376
• Artikelnr.: 39190321

Autorenporträt

Myengkyo Seo completed his doctorate at the University of Cambridge, UK and now teaches Southeast Asian Studies at the Department of Malay-Indonesian Studies, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. The Landscape of Christianity in Modern Indonesia 2.
Defining "Religious" in Indonesia: Toward Neither Islamic Nor Secular State
3. Conversion to Minority: Violence and the State Management of Religion 4.
Missions without Missionaries: Social Dimension of Church Growth in Muslim
Java 5. The White Cross in Muslim Java: Muslim-Christian Dimension of
Politics in the Javanese City of Salatiga 6. Falling in Love and Changing a
God: Inter-Religious Marriage and Religious Conversion in Java Conclusion