Indonesia is a vibrant site of global religious history, as the archipelago has become "home" to many religious traditions that have arrived on its shores, entering the "homeland" of indigenous religious traditions and has connected with the local wisdom of diverse communities. For many decades there has been a strong narrative of Islam's "entanglement" with local cultural traditions in Indonesia, resulting in a "moderate Islam", that differs from Islamic traditions in other parts of the world. Similar dynamics have been described for distinct Hindu, Buddhist and Christian formations in the Indonesian archipelago. Studying current dynamics of political, ecological and economic struggles of indigenous communities today, however, raises the question whether the narrative of entanglement conceals the agonal forces at play and hides the inequalities that (dis)empower indigenous and local actors in the religious field. This paper will explore whether "rupture" needs to be introduced in current research, in terms of both local - global and local - planetary and ecological interactions. In Indonesian society, which is dominated by constant references to "harmony", affirming "unity in diversity" and "harmony" with nature, disruptive forces are denounced as threat on moral and political grounds. A contemporary research-advocacy coalition for Indigenous Peoples in Indonesia calls itself Rumah Bersama (our shared home), in order to strategically fight for their survival and their rights. This paper analyses new forms of "engaged research" that have emerged in Indonesia in recent time in relation to ecology and decoloniality and discusses whether and how these could contribute to global religious history.