Minorities, Modernity and the Emerging Nation: Christians in Indonesia, a Biographical Approach

by Gerry van Klinken and Geert Arend Van Klinken

This book examines the development of Indonesian nationalism from the viewpoint of a minority: the urban Christian elite. Placed between the Indonesian nationalist promise of freedom and the (equally Christian) Dutch colonial promise of modernity, their experience of late colonialism was filled with dilemma and ambiguity. Rather than describe dry institutions, this study traces the lives of five politically active Indonesian Christians, both Catholic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 906718151X
• ISBN13: 9789067181518
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.5"