Religious Violence and Conciliation in Indonesia

Christians and Muslims in the Moluccas

Bibliographic Data

ID19901667
AuthorsSumanto Al Qurtuby (0000-0002-6475-945X, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, corresponding author)
Year2016
Pages192
Publication date2016-05-20
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueReligious Violence and Conciliation in Indonesia (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315659183
OpenAlexW4229734013
Open LibraryOL53956800M
ISBN9781315659183
LanguageEN
Citations received19

Maluku in eastern Indonesia is the home to Muslims, Protestants, and Catholics who had for the most part been living peaceably since the sixteenth century. In 1999, brutal conflicts broke out between local Christians and Muslims, and escalated into large-scale communal violence once the Laskar Jihad, a Java-based armed jihadist Islamic paramilitary group, sent several thousand fighters to Maluku. As a result of this escalated violence, the previously stable Maluku became the site of devastating interreligious wars. This book focuses on the interreligious violence and conciliation in this region. It examines factors underlying the interreligious violence as well as those shaping post-conflict peace and citizenship in Maluku. The author shows that religion—both Islam and Christianity—was indeed central and played an ambiguous role in the conflict settings of Maluku, whether in preserving and aggravating the Christian-Muslim conflict or supporting or improving peace and reconciliation. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and interviews as well as historical and comparative research on religious identities, this book is of interest to Indonesia specialists, as well as academics with an interest in anthropology, religious conflict, peace and conflict studies

Conciliation · Criminology · Mediation · Political science · Asian Studies and History · Islamic Studies and Radicalism · Law · Psychology · Religion and Sociopolitical Dynamics in Nigeria · Christianity · Christianity and other religions · Ethnic conflict · History · Indonesia · Interfaith relations · Islam · Relations · Religion · Religious aspects · Social life and customs · Violence · Violence, religious aspects

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