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The Indonesian archipelago, vast and scattered, holds a sizable portion of the world's people. About a tenth of its predominantly Muslim population is Christian. At twenty-four million, eight million more than the population of the Netherlands (under which the archipelago was 'unified' into a colonial state), Indonesia's Christians are still fairly few when compared with populations in any of several states of sub-Saharan Africa such as Nigeria where Islam is also a consequential presence. Nor does Indonesia's Christian growth mean that the scales of world Christianity are going to tip toward south-east Asia anytime soon. Still, one only has to look to South Asia, where Christian growth in, say, Pakistan and Bangladesh (both preponderantly Muslim), has been negligible, to realise that Indonesia's numbers are far from minuscule. That it is, moreover, a remarkably diverse population, ethnolinguistically, almost goes without saying. Being 'Catholic' may be one kind of identity, but to be Timorese Catholic quite another. The same would hold for Protestants and Pentecostals; it makes a huge difference whether one is talking about Papuans or Javanese. Wisely, therefore, have the editors of this hefty volume avoided a title that would convey the false impression that 'Indonesian' Christianity has a specifiable identity, culturally, one that would be uniform from one end of the archipelago to the other. As there is no comparable study on Indonesia's multiple 'Christianities,' at least not one that is so ambitiously comprehensive, the editors have not only filled a lacuna, they have plugged...