Karel Steenbrink
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Accounting |
| Location | Utrecht, NL, Netherlands |
| Introduction | This is the website of Karel Steenbrink born in Breda 16 Jan. 1942. Professor Emeritus Intercultural theology, Utrecht University. Relindonesia wants to give reports, messages and opinions about the development of religion in Indonesia. Steenbrink wrote his doctoral dissertation 1974 about Islamic Education in Modern Indonesia. He taught in Jakarta and Yogyakarta between 1981-1988. From 1989 Steenbrink worked at Utrecht University, where he taught Islam, but also Christianity in Asia. He wrote three volumes on Catholics in Indonesia (Leiden: KITLV, 2003 and 2007, 2015) and edited together with Jan Aritonang the 1004 pages classical History of Christianity in Indonesia (Leiden: Brill). He wrote in Dutch a commentary on the short suras 79-114 (De Korte Hoofdstukken van de Koran), on the Jesus Verses of the Qur'an, and a commentary of Surat al-Baqarah. A Dutch language weblog is placed as http://karelsteenbrink.blogspot.com |