The ethnographic research project asks what role religious song texts and related embodied practices play in the formation of religious identity of Moluccan Christians. With song texts forming an important category of popular religious texts as well as being a medium for theological ideas, the project aims to further develop the field of material religion through the materialization of religious texts. Song texts are approached as both material objects and as scriptural sources. It is asked how the religious song texts are related to ‘classical’ sacred texts, how they become embodied and are engaged with, and how they are produced and authenticated in the ‘scriptural field’. As textual practices are embedded in socio-historical contexts, the main focus of this research are Moluccan Christians in The Netherlands, where they negotiate their religious identity in relation to their diasporic ethnic migration identity in a contemporary Western post-secular society. Moluccan Christians in the Central Moluccas form an additional transcultural research focus, shaping their Christian subjectivities as a minority in the largest Muslim country of the world. Therefore, anthropological fieldwork will take place both in the Netherlands and in the Central Moluccas, Indonesia.