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Christianity and the Chinese in Indonesia - Ethnicity, Education and Enterprise (Paperback)
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Christianity and the Chinese in Indonesia - Ethnicity, Education and Enterprise (Paperback)
Series: The Sussex Library of Asian & Asian American Studies
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The field of religions of Indonesia is dominated by the sheer size
of the population of Muslims, which represent 87 percent of the
Indonesian population. Christians form the second largest religious
group and represent the largest concentration of members of
minority ethnic groups with 7 percent represented by Protestants, 3
percent by Catholics. Christianity in Indonesia is an understudied
topic; comprehensive works on the topic were published over a
decade ago and despite the growing importance of Christianity as a
minority religion in the country, there has been little published
work in English on the subject in the last decade. If Christianity
in Indonesia has not been sufficiently considered, works published
in English on Christianity among the ethnic Chinese in Indonesia
are even scarcer, notwithstanding the fact that almost half of the
Chinese minority are either Protestant or Catholic. This volume
fills a scholarly gap by addressing three aspects of Christianity
in urban Indonesia: ethnicity (focusing on the ethnic Chinese),
education (on private Christian schools) and enterprise (on the
capital and class featured in charismatic/ Pentecostal churches).
The author addresses issues of state-religion relations and state
policy on religion; contested religious space; elite Chinese
philanthropy; evangelism and multiculturalism; citizenship
education; and Christian faith aspirations. The thirteen essays,
which include material previously published in journals, narrate
the social reality of urban Christians in contemporary Indonesia,
and is essential reading for Asian Studies scholars.
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