The Socio History of Plurality of The Religions In Ambon

Abstract

This paper discussed about the life situation of plurality of religion in Ambon in 1803-1854 and its correlation with postmodern era. The method of this paper is historiography method that give accentuation in Indonesian perspective, because the archive, which much focused on western perspective, had written by the colonial. Since ±1800, The Dutch East Indies Government imposed a freedom of religion. The zendeling, however, did not obey the rules, so they maintained the local Christian community and tried influencing other religion to become a Christian. The world that has already changed, see the Christianization as an effort to destroy the life among religious