Fields of the Lord : : Animism, Christian Minorities, and State Development in Indonesia / / Lorraine V. Aragon.

Religious and ethnic violence between Indonesia's Muslims and Christians escalated dramatically just before and after President Suharto resigned in 1998. In this first major ethnographic study of Christianization in Indonesia, Aragon delineates colonial and postcolonial circumstances contributi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2000]
©2000
Year of Publication:2000
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (398 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Language and Orthography
  • Introduction
  • 1. Before and After Religion
  • 2. Highland Places and Peoples
  • 3. Precolonial Polities, Exchange, and Early Colonial Contact
  • 4. Onward Christian Soldiers: The Salvation Army in Sulawesi
  • 5. Precolonial Cosmology and Christian Consequences
  • 6. Sacrificial Dialogues and Christian Ritual Qualifications
  • 7. The Powers of the Word
  • 8. Constructing a Godly New Order
  • 9. Conclusions
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author