Religion, Decolonization, and the Planetary Community: Voices from the Indonesian Archipelago

Due to globalization and climate change, we are not only Indonesians or Americans, Christians, Muslims, or Buddhists but we are also planetary citizens along with the larger earth community. This volume brings together over 20 scholars, mostly working on and from the Indonesian context.

Whitney A. Bauman is Professor of Religious Studies at Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, FL. He is also co-founder and co-director of Counterpoint: Navigating Knowledge, a non-profit based in Berlin, Germany that holds public discussions over social and ecological issues related to globalization and climate change.

Samsul Maarif is Director of the MA Program of the Center for Religious and Cross-Cultural Studies (CRCS), Graduate School, Universitas Gadjah Mada. His research interests include religions of Indigenous Peoples, ecology, community development and advocacy. He is the coordinator of the research-advocacy coalition for Indigenous Peoples ＂Rumah Bersama＂ (shared home).

Jonathan Davis Smith is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Religion and Public Life, University of Leeds, UK. He is also a Visiting Lecturer at the Center for Religious and Cross-Cultural Studies, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia. His research focuses on religion/culture, social movements and environmental activism.