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Catholics in Indonesia, 1903-1942
A Documented History, Volume 2.
Karel Steenbrink
In the period 1903-1942 the number of indigenous Indonesian Catholics increased from 27,000 to nearly 550,000. Starting from a scattered presence in Minahasa, the Kai Islands, and Flores, four decades later Catholic centers had been established in most regions of the archipelago. Steenbrink describes in detail this formative period in the growth of Catholicism in Indonesia.
Catholics never constituted more than three per cent of the population, one-third of the total number of Christians. The author looks closely at the rivalry with Protestant missionary activities, as well as the race with Islam in imany regions of the outer islands that came under Dutch rule in the early twentieth century. Several appendices give extensive information about the various European missionary orders and the missionaries who were active during this period. Forty annotated historical documents illustrate local variations in proselytizing efforts in the vast archipelago.
Karel Steenbrink is professor of intercultural theology at Utrecht University, the Netherlands.
Table of Contents:
List of documents
Abbreviations
Preface
I. From one mission region to fifteen ecclesiastical districts
II. European, Eurasian and Chinese Catholics
III. Flores: Efforts to create a modern and Christian society
IV. Catholic communities living next to Protestants in Timor and Sumba
V. Kai and Tanimbar as a second eastern centre for the Catholic mission
VI. Catholic participation in the making of modern West Papua
VII. Marginal Minahasa and Toraja Catholics among majority Protestantism in Sulawesi
VIII. Amongst the Chinese, Malays and Dayaks in Kalimantan
IX. The poor legacy of Sumatra
X. The many varieties of Javanese Catholics
XI. Catholicism in late colonial Indonesia: Civil and spiritual aspects of a distinct community
Documents
Appendices
1. The corporate identity of 60 missionary orders
2. Catholic hierarchy
3. Statistics for mid-1942
Bibliography
Index
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Pub Date:
2008
ISBN:
PAPER:
90-6718-260-5
978-90-6718-260-7
Price:
Paper: $57.00s
Subject Listing:
Asian Studies, Religion
Bibliographic information:
652 pp., illus., 6 x 9 in.
Distributed for:
KITLV Press, Leiden
Territorial rights:
Rights in U.S. and Canada only
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