State management of religion in Indonesia
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State management of religion in Indonesia
(Religion in contemporary Asia series / series editor, Bryan S. Turner, [1])
Routledge, 2015, c2013
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
"First published 2013 by Routledge. First issued in paperback 2015"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-160) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Although Indonesia is generally considered to be a Muslim state, and is indeed the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation, it has a sizeable Christian minority as a legacy of Dutch colonialism, with Christians often occupying 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 and charts the evolution of the state's religious policies, analysing in particular the impact of the 1974 Marriage Law showing how it enabled extensive state regulation, but how in practice, rather than reinforcing religious divisions, inter-religious marriage, involving the conversion of one party, is widespread. Overall, the book shows how Indonesia is developing its own brand of secularism, neither a full-blooded Islamic state like Saudi Arabia, nor an outright secular state like Turkey.
Table of Contents
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
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