Fields of the Lord: Animism, Christian Minorities, and State Development in Indonesia

by Lorraine V. Aragón

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 contributing to the dynamics of these contemporary conflicts.

Aragon's ethnography of Indonesian Christian minorities in Sulawesi combines a political economy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824823036
• ISBN13: 9780824823030
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.0"