Introduction: Protestantisme évangélique et sociétés d’Asie du Sud-Est/Evangelical Protestantism and Southeast Asian Societies

Religious aspirations among urban Christians in contemporary Indonesia

“…To understand the disparity of foci in the two events and in Christian aspirations in general, detailed analyses on the different networks and modes of religious organization within Indonesian Christianity, including different theological interpretations and practices, and different types of social commitment and discourses, are needed. Bourdeaux and Jammes (2013) argue that such a nuanced understanding of Christianity in Southeast Asia is generally lacking in the literature.…”

“… 6. Both TWC and Empowered21 are a continuation of the AD2000 Movement. The AD2000 Movement is a global movement for evangelism that sought to spread the Gospel to every person by the year 2000, with a focus on the ‘Christianization of the South’ (Bourdeaux and Jammes, 2013). The movement’s leader, Luis Bush, identified the ‘10/40 Window’ – a rectangular area of North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, between 10 degrees north and 40 degrees north latitude – an area where 95% of the world’s least-evangelized poor are believed to be found (see www.ad2000.org).…”