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Christianity and the Chinese in Indonesia: Ethnicity, Education and Enterprise

Christianity and the Chinese in Indonesia: Ethnicity, Education and Enterprise

Paperback

Series: Liverpool Library of Asian & Asian American Studies

General SociologySoutheast Asian History

ISBN10: 1789761557
ISBN13: 9781789761559
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Jun 1 2023
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.70
Language: English
The field of religions of Indonesia is dominated by the sheer size of the population of Muslims, which represent 87 percent of the Indonesian population. Christians form the second largest religious group and represent the largest concentration of members of minority ethnic groups with 7 percent represented by Protestants, 3 percent by Catholics. Christianity in Indonesia is an understudied topic; comprehensive works on the topic were published over a decade ago and despite the growing importance of Christianity as a minority religion in the country, there has been little published work in English on the subject in the last decade. If Christianity in Indonesia has not been sufficiently considered, works published in English on Christianity among the ethnic Chinese in Indonesia are even scarcer, notwithstanding the fact that almost half of the Chinese minority are either Protestant or Catholic. This volume fills a scholarly gap by addressing three aspects of Christianity in urban

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