Missions without missionaries: the social dimension of church growth in Muslim Java, Indonesia
We live in a world where religion is not confined to the private sphere and where faith-based acts, from Qur'an burning to terrorist activities, affront not only believers but also non-believers. Indonesia, where moderate Islam has long enjoyed its compatibility with other religions, has recent...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Taylor & Francis
[2013]
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| Dans: |
Islam and Christian-Muslim relations
Année: 2013, Volume: 24, Numéro: 1, Pages: 71-89 |
| RelBib Classification: | BJ Islam CC Christianisme et religions non-chrétiennes; relations interreligieuses CH Christianisme et société KBM Asie TK Époque contemporaine |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
free-rider
B Java Christian Church B Islam B Church Growth B religious majority and minority |
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Volltext (Verlag) |
| Résumé: | We live in a world where religion is not confined to the private sphere and where faith-based acts, from Qur'an burning to terrorist activities, affront not only believers but also non-believers. Indonesia, where moderate Islam has long enjoyed its compatibility with other religions, has recently emerged as a hot spot of Muslim-Christian violence. In order to examine the social face of faith in ‘unfavourable’ circumstances, this article analyses church growth in Muslim Java by addressing the sociological issues related to what makes a church strong. Through an empirical investigation into the Java Christian Church, the article demonstrates that a church manages to establish a firm foothold in a Muslim society by developing the porosity of the religious frontier at the organizational level. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-9311 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Islam and Christian-Muslim relations
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/09596410.2013.745300 |