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Million People Means That Indonesia Is The World's Fourth Most Populous Country. Indonesia Is Also The

The document discusses religion in Indonesia, including its diversity and demographics. It notes that Indonesia has the largest Muslim population in the world at over 87% and also discusses other religious groups. The document then provides an overview of a course on the history of religions in Indonesia that will examine topics like archaic cosmopolitanism and the role of missionaries.

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Million People Means That Indonesia Is The World's Fourth Most Populous Country. Indonesia Is Also The

The document discusses religion in Indonesia, including its diversity and demographics. It notes that Indonesia has the largest Muslim population in the world at over 87% and also discusses other religious groups. The document then provides an overview of a course on the history of religions in Indonesia that will examine topics like archaic cosmopolitanism and the role of missionaries.

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First slide: Why should…

First slide:
Religion in Indonesia…  in this course, we will….

The formation of Indonesia’s religious communities was and is an ongoing dynamic process flowing from
the intricate networks and interactions between peoples of varying faiths, drawing not only from the
world’s major religions, but also from Indonesia’s numerous indigenous communities.
Mosque  church Bali temple  Indigenous slide (Marapu, Sunda Wiwitan, dll).

Indonesian demographics and diversity….

Indonesia’s cosmopolitanism derives from its diversity. The country is an archipelago covering more
than 17,000 islands and 1.9 million square miles of land. The population, currently over 270,000,000
million people means that Indonesia is the world’s fourth most populous country. Indonesia is also the
world’s largest Muslim-majority country, at just over 87% of the population. 9.87% are Christian, and
while Hindu and Buddhist temples dot the landscape, only 1.69% [of people] are Hindu and less than 1%
(0.72% are Buddhist). Confucians (0.03%) and worshippers of other religions (0.04%) make up the rest
of Indonesia’s believers.

The history of religions is not only about genealogy or a series of events,

...but, also,

the interpretation of past, social, political, and communal interactions.

Then

Why should you join this course at ICRS?

In this course, we will study the history of religions within Indonesia.

We interpret the past in order to understand our present and discern our future.

This course is designed for graduate level (MA and PhD) students of religious studies, but is also
appropriate for students of political science, law, anthropology, and theology.

The topics we will examine as part of this course include:

Archaic Cosmopolitanism

Inter-Asian Consmopolitanism

Missionaries as a Cosmopolitan Movement

Religion, Colonialism, and Nationalism


Among others

The course will be facilitated by Dr. Leonard Epaphras, core doctoral faculty at ICRS and Duta Wacana
Christian University and Dr. Abdul Wahid from Universitas Gadjah Mada

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