Church History, Missions & Missionary Work, history, Asia, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Nationalism, Asian, Political Ideologies 

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 Dutch colonial promise of modernity, their experience of late colonialism was filled with dilemma and ambiguity. This study traces the lives of five politically active Indonesian Christians, both Catholic and Protestant, spanning the late colonial, Japanese occupation, and early independence periods. Their status as a religious minority, and as urban middle class ìmigrantsî out of their traditional communities, made them more aware that achieving moral consensus was problematic. This book should be of interest to students of Indonesian history, as well as those studying the history of Third World nationalism and the history of Christian missions. - from Amzon