Christianity Islam and Nationalism in Indonesia pdf

Christianity, Islam, and Nationalism in Indonesia

Charles E. Farhadian

CHRISTIANITY, ISLAM, AND NATIONALISM

in Indonesia

As the largest Muslim country in the world, Indonesia is marked by an extraordinary diversity of languages, traditions, cultures, and religions. Christianity, Islam, and Nationalism in Indonesia focuses on Dani Christians of West Papua, providing a social and ethnographic history of the most important indigenous population in the troubled province.

It presents a captivating overview of the Dani conversion to Christianity, examining the social, religious, and political uses to which they have put their new religion.

Farhadian provides the first major study of a highland Papuan group in an urban context, which distinguishes it from the typical highland Melanesian ethnography. Incorporating cultural and structural approaches, the book affords a fascinating look into the complex relationship among Christianity, Islam, nation-making, and indigenous traditions.

Based on research over many years, Christianity, Islam, and Nationalism in Indonesia offer an abundance of new material on religious and political events in West Papua.

The book underlines the heart of Christian–Muslim rivalries, illuminating the fate of religion in late-modern times.

Charles E. Farhadian is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Westmont College, Santa Barbara, California.