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Half-Brothers in Christ: The Church Missionary Society and the Christians of Kerala, 1813-1840

In the 1810s, the Church Missionary Society (CMS) established the College at Cottayam in south India to educate boys intended for the priesthood in the local, indigenous church. While their goal was to help the church, their activities increased British power in the community. The results of CMS inv...

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Autore principale: Joseph Gerald Howard
Natura: Printed Book
Pubblicazione: SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY 2014
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Accesso online:http://10.26.1.76/ks/005122.pdf
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Riassunto:In the 1810s, the Church Missionary Society (CMS) established the College at Cottayam in south India to educate boys intended for the priesthood in the local, indigenous church. While their goal was to help the church, their activities increased British power in the community. The results of CMS involvement included increasing interference of British officials in matters internal to the Malankara Church (e.g., episcopal succession), tacit recognition of the authority of colonial courts to resolve disputes in the church, and the fragmentation of the St. Thomas Christian community. These effects reshaped the church into something more consistent with British Christianity and more subject to British rule.
Descrizione del documento:Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Department of History Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY