Catholics in Indonesia, 1808-1942 : a documented history / / Volume 2, : The spectacular growth of a self-confident minority, 1903-1942 : / Karel Steenbrink ; with the cooperation of Paule Maas.

• Author: Steenbrink, Karel A.
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Series: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 232.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (648 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Indigenous Indonesian Catholics increased in number from 27,000 to nearly 550,000 between 1902 and 1942. At first scattered only through Minahasa, the Kai islands and Flores, after four decades Catholic centres were established in most of the archipelago, and there was even a small but well-educated and vocal minority in Central Java. It is this formative period in the growth of Catholicism in Indonesia that Steenbrink describes in detail. Catholics never constituted more than three per cent of the Indonesian population, one-third of all Christians. Steenbrink examines the rivalry of this minority with Protestants and their missionary activities, as well as the race with Islam in many parts of the outer islands, which had come under Dutch rule in the early twentieth century. This comprehensive work includes extensive details on the different European missionary orders and missionaries active at this time. Forty archival documents illustrate the proselytizing efforts in the archipelago. The first volume of Catholics in Indonesia, 1808-1942: A documented history appeared in 2003 ( Volume I: A modest recovery, 1808-1903 , KITLV Press).

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Chapter I: From one mission region to fifteen ecclesiastical districts -- Chapter II: European, Eurasian and Chinese Catholics -- Chapter III: Flores: Efforts to create a modern and Christian society -- Chapter IV: Catholic communities living next to Protestants in Timor and Sumba -- Chapter V: Kai and Tanimbar as a second eastern centre for the Catholic mission -- Chapter VI: Catholic participation in the making of modern West Papua -- Chapter VII: Marginal Minahasa and Toraja Catholics among majority Protestantism in Sulawesi -- Chapter VIII: Amongst the Chinese, Malays and Dayaks in Kalimantan -- Chapter IX: The poor legacy of Sumatra -- Chapter X: The many varieties of Javanese Catholics -- Chapter XI: Catholicism in late colonial Indonesia: Civil and spiritual aspects of a distinct community -- Documents -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index.