Karel Steenbrink
Biographic Data
| ID | 602235 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karel Steenbrink |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karel |
| FAMILY NAME | Steenbrink |
| SIGNATURE | STEENBRINK K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 50 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Reading the Bible Together with Muslims: David as Sinner King and Repentant Prophet
The Jewish, Christian and Muslim traditions share many stories. The narratives about Adam, Abraham, Moses, Solomon and many others are modelled one after the other. During the last decades much attention has been given to the ‘three religions of Abraham’ as sharing the heritage of that great biblical figure. This contribution concentrates on the stories of David in the three religions as expression of the one hermeneutic family. It pleads that Je…
The Character of Christian-Muslim Encounter: Essays in Honour of David Thomas, written by Douglas Pratt, John Hoover, John Davies and John Chesworth
The reformasi of Ayu Utami Attacking the monopoly of the great religions
In eight novels, Ayu Utami has presented critical attacks on doctrines and practices of the major religions in Indonesia. The two books, that describe the spiritual struggle of the Catholic priest Saman (1998–2002), call for a religion that is more active in the political arena, but leaves sexual rules to the individual people. The novel Bilangan Fu (2008) condemns the monopoly of the great religions in favour of local and individual spirituality…
Das koranische Motiv der Schriftfälschung (taḥrīf) durch Juden en Christen. Islamische Deutungen and christliche Reaktionen, written by Timo Güzelmansur
Academic Study of Indonesian Islam: A Biographical Account, 1970-2014
In the humanities, including religious studies, personal factors often play a role in the selection of topic and methodology of research. This autobiographical sketch gives an overview of a long career in the study of religion in Indonesia, from the selection of the topic for doctoral research, through various jobs and academic projects until some work written in a period of retirement. The author’s background of liberal Catholicism with much int…
Catholics in Independent Indonesia: 1945-2010
Catholics in Independent Indonesia: 1945-2010 concludes Steenbrink’s three volume historical account of Catholicism in Indonesia with a detailed report of the survival and growth of this minority religion in Muslim Indonesia since its independence in 1945
Muslim Christian Relations Observed: Comparative Studies from Indonesia and the Netherlands, written by Volker Küster and Robert Setio
Buddhism in Muslim Indonesia
This article presents an overview of various ways in which Buddhists and Muslims have lived together in Indonesia since the arrival of Islam about 1200. It tells how Buddhism has slowly disappeared and become a religion for mainly the Chinese who, until the late 19th century, have often converted to Islam. This article analyzes the role of three key figures in the recent government–supported revival of Buddhism. These figures are the Chinese–Indo…
Ashraf and Bernadette Sadek, ‘Un fleuve d’eau vive. Trilogie sur l’Entrée du Christ en Égypte. Tome I: Les Sources’, Le Monde Copte 34 (2011), Limoges: Le Monde Copte, 319 p., price € 35.00
New Interest for the Christian Context in Qur’anic Studies
Qurʾānic studies have moved between interest for Jewish background, emphasis the Arab social and economic situation and a theory which considers the Christian origin of the early Muslim movement. This review article discusses two authors, Angelika Neuwirth and Gabriel Said Reynolds, who give strong arguments for the latter perspective. The Christian context of the Qurʾān, however, does not involve an easy accommodation of early Islam to modern ma…
Albertus Bagus Laksana sj, Journeying to God in Communion with the Other: A Comparative Theological Study of the Muslim and Catholic Pilgrimage Traditions in South Central Java and their Contributions…
Albertus Bagus Laksana sj, Journeying to God in Communion with the Other: A Comparative Theological Study of the Muslim and Catholic Pilgrimage Traditions in South Central Java and their Contributions to the Catholic Theology of Communio Sanctorum, Doctoral Dissertation, Boston: Boston College 2011, 663 p., umi Dissertation Publishing no 3499300." published on 01 Jan 2013 by Brill
Dutch Colonial Containment of Islam in Manggarai, West-Flores, in Favour of Catholicism, 1907-1942
West Flores or Manggarai was until 1900 known as territory of the Muslim Sultan of Bima. In 1907 the Dutch effectively took possession of the region and after 1910 they entrusted the introduction of schools to the Catholic missionaries. The coastal Muslim settlements were neglected in favour of the mountain region, where finally one local chief, mission-educated Alexander Baroek became the most important native counterpart of the colonial rule. T…
‘Nahe ist dir das Wort . . .’ Schriftauslegung in Christentum und Islam
A Christian View of Islam: Essays on Dialogue
Book Reviews / Exchange 40 (2011) 289-309 305 Thomas F. Michel, A Christian View of Islam: Essays on Dialogue , edited by Irfan A. Omar, with a foreword by John L. Esposito, Maryknoll ny: Orbis 2010, 214 p., isbn 978-1- 57075-860-7, price us $ 34.00. Thomas Michel, born in 1941 in St. Louis mo in the usa, is a world citizen. He was in 1967 ordained as a diocesan priest of the archdiocese of St. Louis, but entered the Jesuit order in Yogyakarta, I…
Aggiornamento and Unity: The Ambitious Ecumenical Theology of Anton Houtepen (1940-2010)
On 11 December 2010 Professor Anton Houtepen passed away after a long fight with cancer. Between 1988 and 2004 he was Director of IIMO, the Interuniversity Institute for Missiological and Ecumenical Studies in the Netherlands. This article presents a biography of this learned and inspiring pioneer of the ecumenical movement. Besides the internal discussion within the Christian communities, special attention is given to his dialogue with the ongoi…
Far from Being Idolatrous: Ancestor Veneration
Das Missionsrecht ein Vorreiter des universalen Kirchenrechts
A History of Christianity in Indonesia
Indonesia is the home of the largest single Muslim community of the world. Its Christian community, about 10% of the population, has until now received no overall description in English. Through cooperation of 26 Indonesian and European scholars, Protestants and Catholics, a broad and balanced picture is given of its 24 million Christians. This book sketches the growth of Christianity during the Portuguese period (1511-1605), it presents a fair a…
Indigenous Peoples and Religious Change
98 Book Reviews / Exchange 37 (2008) 86-102 Peggy Brock (ed.), Indigenous Peoples and Religious Change , Studies in Christian Mission 31, Leyden: Brill 2005, 262 p., ISBN 90-04-13899-4, price € 103.00 . Until the 1990s many anthropologists avoided a discussion of global religions by plain neglect (like Margaret Mead in her study on Samoa, 1928) or by an emphasis on the power of the global religions, seeing tribal religion as deemed to vanish. Dur…
Een aanvechtbare en onzekere situatie. De Nederlands Hervormde Kerk en Nieuw-Guinea 1949-1962
The Pastoral Circle Revisited. A Critical Quest for Truth and Transformation
Public Religion' and the Pancasila-Based State of Indonesia. An Ethical and Sociological Analysis
Dutch Colonialism and Indonesian Islam: Contacts and Conflicts 1596-1950. Second Revised Edition
This book tells the story of the contacts and conflicts between muslims and christians in Southeast Asia during the Dutch colonial history from 1596 until 1950. The author draws from a great variety of sources to shed light on this period: the letters of the colonial pioneer Jan Pietersz. Coen, the writings of 17th century Dutch theologians, the minutes of the Batavia church council, the contracts of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) with the su…
Reading the Bible Together with Muslims: David as Sinner King and Repentant Prophet
The Jewish, Christian and Muslim traditions share many stories. The narratives about Adam, Abraham, Moses, Solomon and many others are modelled one after the other. During the last decades much attention has been given to the 'three religions of Abraham' as sharing the heritage of that great biblical figure. This contribution concentrates on the stories of David in the three religions as expression of the one hermeneutic family. It pleads that Je…
Christianity and Islam: Civilizations or religions? Contemporary indonesian discussions
This article wants to look at the problem of the relation between Islam and Christianity and their definitions of civilization or religion, from the angles of the Indonesian Muslims and Christians. In the colonial past both Islam and Christianity behaved like complete communities or civilizations. Therefore religious affiliation had always social and political impact and it was and is often not possible to change religion, like people cannot chan…
Muslim‐christian Relations in the Pancasila State of Indonesia
Dutch Colonial Containment of Islam in Manggarai, West-Flores, in Favour of Catholicism, 1907-1942
West Flores or Manggarai was until 1900 known as territory of the Muslim Sultan of Bima. In 1907 the Dutch effectively took possession of the region and after 1910 they entrusted the introduction of schools to the Catholic missionaries. The coastal Muslim settlements were neglected in favour of the mountain region, where finally one local chief, mission-educated Alexander Baroek became the most important native counterpart of the colonial rule. T…
Jesus and the holy spirit in the writings of Nūr al‐Din al‐Raniri
In the 17th century Nūr al‐Din al‐Raniri was one of the most prominent scholars of the Sultanate of Aceh (now a province of the Indonesian Republic). In a book on Islamic law he commented critically on Hindus, Jews and Christians. In other works he contributed more positively to the Muslim debate on the significance of Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Al‐Raniri sometimes deviates from the mainstream of Muslim scholarship, especially in stating his theo…
Christianity and Islam: Civilizations or religions? Contemporary indonesian discussions
This article wants to look at the problem of the relation between Islam and Christianity and their definitions of civilization or religion, from the angles of the Indonesian Muslims and Christians. In the colonial past both Islam and Christianity behaved like complete communities or civilizations. Therefore religious affiliation had always social and political impact and it was and is often not possible to change religion, like people cannot chan…
Qur’ān Interpretations of Hamzah Fansuri (CA. 1600) and Hamka (1908-1982): A Comparison
The process of Islamization of the archipelago in a broad scale only after the 12th century. At that time, the Islamization of society not only touch the fringe. Some kingdoms in the archipelago, especially those located on the island of Sumatra, began to embrace Islam. Furthermore, the conversion process is running more intensive and reach the various kingdoms in other areas.One of the important themes in seeing the Islamic tradition in this reg…
Hamka (1908-1981) and the Integration of the Islamic Ummah of Indonesia
Islam is a unifying factor at the same time breaking in Indonesian history. Based on historical records, the conversion of Islam in Indonesia starts from kingdoms located in coastal areas. This conversion greatly benefit the kingdom, with which they can access a wider trade network which already controlled by Muslims. This conversion process can then unify the Malay traders origin, Java, and their other competitors. But with the entry of traders …
Another Race between Islam and Christianity: The Case of Flores, Southeast Indonesia, 1900-1920
Islam and Christianity arrived in the south-eastern islands of the Indonesian archipelago in two waves. The first wave started in about 1480 with the arrival of Arab and Indian (Gujerati) traders in the spice islands of the Northern Moluccas: particularly in Ternate and Tidore. They arrived through the island of Flores, and probably very quickly moved across to the island of Timor as well, to engage in trade in sandalwood, horses and slaves. In s…
Javanese Stories of Jesus
The Jesus-section of the Javanese Serat Anbiya starts at the end of the story of the People of the Cave, the Muslim version of the Christian legend of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesos, who fled persecution under Emperor Decius (249-251) and disappeared, until they were found and rose up again. In most versions of this series, this story is told after the Jesus section (in Tha'labi, Rabghuzi, Mirkhond, but not in Kisai), but here it precedes the Jesu…
VII. Indian Teachers and their Indonesian Pupils: On Intellectual Relations between India and Indonesia, 1600–1800
One of the classical accounts on the coming and first establishment of Islam in Indonesia runs as follows: Already a long time before the birth of Islam a mighty stream of colonisation started from Hindustan towards Java and surrounding islands. This stream definitely dominated the culture of this area and its influence is felt until today. After part of the Hindus had accepted Islam, these Indian Muslims were active in the trade with the archipe…
Towards a Pancasila Society: The Indonesian Debate on Secularization, Liberation and Development 1969-1989
Jesus and the holy spirit in the writings of Nūr al‐Din al‐Raniri
In the 17th century Nūr al‐Din al‐Raniri was one of the most prominent scholars of the Sultanate of Aceh (now a province of the Indonesian Republic). In a book on Islamic law he commented critically on Hindus, Jews and Christians. In other works he contributed more positively to the Muslim debate on the significance of Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Al‐Raniri sometimes deviates from the mainstream of Muslim scholarship, especially in stating his theo…
The Study of Comparative Religion By Indonesian Muslims
The Study of Comparative Religion by Indonesian Muslims: A Survey
On the Possibility of a Creative and Inspiring Pluralism of Religions
Pluralism of religions is not a timeless phenomenon. Religion itself has changed and developed in the history of mankind. As shown by Wilfred Cantwell Smith in his book on The Meaning and End of Religion, varieties of religious experiences and pluralism of religions also are restyled and remodeled according to time and place. In this communication I want to elaborate on this theme in a double way. First I want to make some remarks about pluralism…
Indonesian politics and a Muslim theology of religions: 1965–1990
In 1945 the Indonesian republic accepted the Pancasila‐ideology as the basis of the independent state. In this ideology the role of religion is clearly defined as one of the five pillars of society. This has caused a more positive perception among Muslims of the major religions of the world (especially Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism). It has also started a series of interreligious encounters, aimed at national development and interreligious …
The Rehabilitation of the Indigenous
Turmoil in the Batak Church of Indonesia: Patronage as State Policy
Interactive Use of Scriptures Within an Interreligious Network
J. B. Banawiratma & J. Müller, Kontextuelle Sozialtheologie. Ein indonesisches Modell, Freiburg/Basel/Wien: Herder, 1995, 237pp
Paul F. Knitter, One Earth Many Religions. Multifaith Dialogue & Global Responsibility, Maryknoll: Orbis 1995, 218pp., ISBN 1-57-75-037-8
Asian Theological Journals 1994-1995
CHRONICLE ASIAN THEOLOGICAL JOURNALS 1994-1995 Karel Steenbrink This article is the second in a series originating from the main goal of our journal EXCHANGE: the global interaction between Asian, African, Latin American theologies and the European centres of theological research. Like the first chroniclel this one will present a personal selection of themes and trends on the basis of the more than 80 journals available in the library of IIMO in …
Quranic Guidelines for Economy as a Basis for Interreligious Solidarity in Favor of the Poor: Some Reflections on the Indonesian and Dutch Contexts
Y.B. Mangunwijaya's Blueprint for a Diaspora Church in Indonesia
Muslim‐christian Relations in the Pancasila State of Indonesia
Five Catholic Theologians of Indonesia in Search for an International or Local Identity
Interpretations of Christian-Muslim Violence in the Mollucas
Poetry By Shrinivasi in Context: The Encounter of Popular and Official Hinduism and Christianity in Surinam
The Mission of Dialogue After 11 September 2001
Catholics in Indonesia, 1808-1903: A Documented History, Volume 1
This first of two volumes documents the history of the Roman Catholic Church in Indonesia from 1808, when, after two centuries, priests were again allowed in the Dutch colony, until 1903, when the the number of Catholics, only 27,000 at the time, started to grow spectacularly. The story of slow growth among the indigenous population, with many setbacks, is illustrated by 98 documents, which are included in their complete format and original langu…
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