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- Title
Old Lamps for New: Recent Developments in Nusa Tenggara Timur.
- Authors
Paul Webb, R. A. F.
- Abstract
The Christian churches in Indonesia claim to serve the ‘whole person’ through spiritual means, education, and socio-economic development. In Nusa Tenggara Timur, eastern Indonesia, the majority of people are Christians, while the rest are ‘animists’. The island of Flores has an overwhelming majority of Catholics, Timor of Protestants, while Sumba is mainly ‘animist’ with minorities of Catholics and Protestants. Development projects by churches and provincial and central governments are often held up by custodians of tradition, to the detriment of farmers' increased economic welfare. They are also hindered because they are imposed from above without proper consultation with those who are supposed to benefit from such development projects. Thus development often founders.
- Subjects
NUSA Tenggara Timur (Indonesia); INDONESIA; CHRISTIANS; CHURCH &; minorities; CHURCH &; state; CHURCH buildings; CHRISTIANITY &; culture; RELIGION &; sociology; ECONOMICS; RELIGION
- Publication
SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, 1989, Vol 4, Issue 2, p205
- ISSN
0217-9520
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1355/SJ4-2C