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State Management of Religion in Indonesia

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ISBN-10: 0415517168

ISBN-13: 9780415517164

Edition: 2013

Authors: Myengkyo Seo

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Although Indonesia is often thought of as a Muslim state - indeed it is the most populous Muslim state of all - it has a sizeable Christian minority, with Christians, as a legacy of Dutch colonial days, often in relatively high social positions. 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. It examines religious violence, especially the inter-religious war which took place on the island of Maluku, and charts the…    
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Book details

List price: $125.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 6/25/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations and glossary of terms
Introduction: Violence and secularism in the making of modern societies
Religious volatility and vitality in Indonesia
From communist to Christian: the state management of religion in Indonesia
Religious conversion: the negation of the old and the reception of the new?
The nature of the inquiry
Salatiga: a Christian city in Muslim Java
Yogyakarta: Christians in the sultanate
Primary sources of data and their collection
Organization of the book
The landscape of Christianity in modern Indonesia
State management of statistics on Christianity in Indonesia
The geography of Christianity in Indonesia
Christian distribution in Java and Indonesia
Christian denominations
The Christian workforce
Christian theological institutions/universities
Christian places of worship
The institutionalization of the Christian churches in Indonesia
The ecumenical: the PGI
Paradise or prison: the PGLII
Besmirching or spreading Christianity: the PGPI
The GKJ: the Presbyterian form of church governance
Defining "religious" in Indonesia: toward neither an Islamic nor a secular state
Religious legacies of colonialism
Defining Indonesia at the declaration of independence
Pancasila: the Indonesian version of secularism
The Jakarta Charter: the proposal for an Islamic state
The institutionalization of religion: the Ministry of Religious Affairs
Religion in the political landscape in the Old Order
Islamic political parties
Muslim, communist and Christian rebellions
The general elections of 1955 and 1957
Interplay of religion and politics: the anti-communist jihad in 1965
The Presidential Decree of 1965 regarding state-recognized religions
Conversion to minority: violence and the state management of religion
Visibility of Christianity in Muslim Java
Extra-terrestrial: religious conversion in search of citizenship
Territorialization of the faith: genealogy of inter-religious violence in the New Order
State management of religion in Indonesia: anti-Christianity policies?
State regulation on the houses of worship in 1969 and 2006
Religious policies on missionary activities in 1978
Law No. 8 of 1985 on Pancasila and social organizations
Missions without missionaries: social dimension of church growth in Muslim Java
Church growth in Muslim-majority society
The porosity of the religious frontiers at the institutional level
Mother or master? A bittersweet rapport between the Dutch and the GKJ
Sadrach - from heretic to hero
The decrease of evangelical missionaries
The new generation of pendetas
The P4 system: inter-religious marriage in the GKJ
An inclusive perception of ins and outs
The publication of the Doctrine of Principles
The White Cross in Muslim Java: Muslim-Christian dimension of politics in the Javanese city of Salatiga
Muslim-Christian dimension of Salatiga
The Christian mayor of Salatiga
Salib Putih: the GKJ vs. the MUI
Salatiga Islam University
The changing nature of the GKJ: between church and civic institution
The Trukajaya Christian Institution
YAKKUM: Christian Foundation for Public Health
Falling in love and changing gods: inter-religious marriage and religious conversion in Java
Religious conversion to Christianity in Muslim Java
Marrying religion to politics in Indonesia: the 1974 Marriage Law
The state management of inter-religious marriage in Indonesia
Neither banned nor arranged: the legality of inter-religious marriage
The 1989 Supreme Court decision on inter-religious marriage
Religious conversion in inter-religious marriages
The romantic side of religious conversion and its economic considerations
Inter-religious marriage and the myth of Christianization
Inter-religious marriage and the myth of gender
Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
Index