A History of Christianity in Indonesia
ISBN: 9789004170261
Platform/Publisher: Knowledge Unlatched / Brill
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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 period of the Indonesian Republic (since 1945). Its authors were equally divided between Protestants and Catholics.


Jan Sihar Aritonang, Ph.D. (2000) in History of Christianity, Utrecht University, is Lecturer of Church History at the Theological College of Jakarta, Indonesia. He has already published a great number of books, most in Indonesian, on religious development in his country, including Mission Schools in Batakland (Indonesia), 1861-1940, Leiden: Brill, 1994.
Karel Steenbrink, Ph.D. (1974) in Religious Studies, Radboud University, Nijmegen, is Professor of Intercultural Theology at Utrecht University. He has published extensively on religions in Indonesia, both Islam and Christianity, including Catholics in Indonesia, 1808-1942, A Documented History, Leiden: KITLV 2 vols, 2003-6.
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