Karel Steenbrink, Ph.D. (1974) in Religious Studies, is Professor Emeritus of Intercultural Theology at Utrecht University. He has published extensively on religions in Indonesia, both Islam and Christianity. Starting in 1970 with fieldwork in Muslim schools, he now researches colonial perceptions of Islam, and the position of minority Catholicism in Muslim Indonesia. The first two volumes of this history were published by KITLV Press, Leiden (2003 and 2007).