Fields of the Lord : animism, Christian minorities, and state development in Indonesia

Religious and ethnic violence between Indonesia's Muslim majority and Christian minorities escalated dramatically after Suharto resigned in 1998. In this ethnographic study of Christianization in Indonesia, Lorraine Aragon delineates some of the background to this conflict.

• Acknowledgments p. vii
• Note on Language and Orthography p. xi
• Introduction p. 1
• 1. Before and After Religion p. 13
• 2. Highland Places and Peoples p. 47
• 3. Precolonial Polities, Exchange, and Early Colonial Contact p. 84
• 4. Onward Christian Soldiers: The Salvation Army in Sulawesi p. 113
• 5. Precolonial Cosmology and Christian Consequences p. 157
• 6. Sacrificial Dialogues and Christian Ritual Qualifications p. 202
• 7. The Powers of the Word p. 240
• 8. Constructing a Godly New Order p. 275
• 9. Conclusions p. 320
• Notes p. 327
• Bibliography p. 335
• Index p. 369