The Anglican Church in Malaysia

This book examines the Anglican Church in Malaysia from multiple angles, unpacking its history from British colonialism to today's Muslim-majority Asian nation. Analyzing tense Christian-Muslim dialogue and volatile intercommunity relations, themes of ethnicity, identity, gender, and multiculturalism intersect in contexts of war, insurgency, and national independence.

The Church's two centuries of history unfold chronologically, but this study goes far beyond mere description of events; it is a critical, multidisciplinary, multilayered discussion that integrates contemporary, archival, and scholarly perspectives. It focuses on high-pressure interfaces between colonialists, clergy, sultans, indigenous, and immigrant groups.

The roles of education and healthcareas evangelism, or perhaps incentivizationare investigated, within evolving models of mission, conversion, and the broader context of Anglicanism in crisis. These diverse threads intertwine to produce a concise but comprehensive three-dimensional portrait of the Anglican Church in Malaysia.

Tells the story of the Anglican Church's presence in Malaysia, from British colonization to the present day Homes-in on key, complex, multi-voiced interactions and relationships Addresses the highly emotive, often divisive, long-running interreligious phenomena

Auteur

Edward Jarvis is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, and an Anglican priest. He is the author of The Anglican Church in Burma: From Colonial Past to Global Future and Sede Vacante: The Life and Legacy of Archbishop Thuc.

Contenu

1. Introduction.- 2. To carry the Church with us wherever we goThe Arrival of Church and Empire in Southeast Asia and Malaysia.- 3. In the lands of HeathenismConquests and Contradictions in Colonial Malaysian Mission.- 4. Give me eight more young and devoted priestsSetbacks and Successes in the Early Twentieth Century.- 5. Rejoicing in tribulation, full of hopeThe Church and the Second World War.- 6. A fertile field for evangelismThe Postwar Church, the Malayan Emergency, and Missionary Evolution.- 7. The Christian voice in a Muslim majority contextThe Challenges and Dilemmas of Today's Church in Malaysia.- 8. From the shores of the Peninsula or from the deck of the shipTheological and Missiological Perspectives and Viewpoints.- 9. Afterword.