00000cam a22000004i 4500 UP-99796217612916496 Buklod 20230619154520.0 m go j ta 181126s xx d r |||| u| (iLib)UPD-00397765461 Fi-14949g Php188.25 Donated by Ariel C. Lopez DMLF rda eng DMLUC BP 172 L67 2018 Lopez, Ariel C. author. Conversion and colonialism Islam and Christianity in North Sulawesi, c. 1700-1900 Ariel C. Lopez. [The Netherlands] [Leiden University] 2018. 251 pages illustrations 24 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Dissertation Leiden University in order to obtain the degree of Doctor in the year 2018. Thesis (Doctor of Philosophy)--Leiden University 2018. This dissertation explores the causation of mass conversions to Islam in Bolaang-Mongondow and to Protestant Christianity in Sangir-Talaud and Minahasa (North Sulawesi, Indonesia) in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It demonstrates that despite deviations in particularities, the mass conversions to world religions in these regions broadly shared similar causations. It places emphasis on particular periods in the nineteenth-century when the Dutch colonial state centralized political authority and imposed census-based monetary taxation with the aim of commercializing the economy. It points to these reforms as the immediate triggers that enabled both Dutch apical rulers and especially indigenous apical rulers to weaken the authority of subaltern chiefs. It illustrates that these reforms were weaved into the religious conversion agenda of rulers as a strategy to further consolidate authority by depriving the subaltern chiefs of their functionally undifferentiated and socially embedded authority. As such, this dissertation shows that the apical rulers could expand their political and economic reach while paving the way for their claimed subjects to access prestigious religious identities, which had hitherto been exclusive to the ruling elite. Religion Converts Indonesia. Christianity and other religions Islam. Islam Relations Christianity. Proselytizing. Indonesia Islam Relations Christianity. Book (viewed December 6, 2018) https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/handle/1887/65631 Access fulltext from Leiden University Repository FI UPD DMLF BP 172 L67 2018 Book