In the shadow of the Mahatma : Bishop V.S. Azariah and the travails of Christianity in British India /
Harper, Susan Billington.
In the shadow of the Mahatma : Bishop V.S. Azariah and the travails of Christianity in British India / Susan Billington Harper. - Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., ©2000. - xix, 462 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. - Studies in the history of Christian missions . - Studies in the history of Christian missions. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-442) and index.
Local background: secure roots and a spiritual core -- Pan-Asian ecumenism: a vision beyond nations -- Indigenous national base: a nonpolitical missionary -- Bishop in the British Empire: church-state conflict under the Raj -- Bishop in the Indian Church: race an identity formation -- Bishop in Andhra: local transformation through conversion -- Overcoming divisions in Christendom -- Overcoming caste and culture in India -- The conflict with Gandhi and political nationalism.
Reconstructs major events and issues in Bishop Azariahs public life, including a previously unstudied controversy with Gandhi over the issue of conversion and religious freedom in the 1930s. This book presents the only critical study of the public life and legacy of V.S. Azariah (1874-1945), the first Indian bishop of an Anglican diocese and the most successful leader of rural conversion movements to Christianity in modern India. Harper carefully explores Bishop Azariahs work, including his attempts to redress racism and improve social conditions in India, and documentsfor the first time anywherethe previously unknown controversy between Bishop Azariah and the great Mahatma Gandhi.
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Azariah, Vedanayagam Samuel, 1874-1945.
Church of South India. Dornakal Diocese --Biography.
Church of South India--Bishops--Biography.
India, South--Church history--20th century.
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In the shadow of the Mahatma : Bishop V.S. Azariah and the travails of Christianity in British India / Susan Billington Harper. - Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., ©2000. - xix, 462 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. - Studies in the history of Christian missions . - Studies in the history of Christian missions. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-442) and index.
Local background: secure roots and a spiritual core -- Pan-Asian ecumenism: a vision beyond nations -- Indigenous national base: a nonpolitical missionary -- Bishop in the British Empire: church-state conflict under the Raj -- Bishop in the Indian Church: race an identity formation -- Bishop in Andhra: local transformation through conversion -- Overcoming divisions in Christendom -- Overcoming caste and culture in India -- The conflict with Gandhi and political nationalism.
Reconstructs major events and issues in Bishop Azariahs public life, including a previously unstudied controversy with Gandhi over the issue of conversion and religious freedom in the 1930s. This book presents the only critical study of the public life and legacy of V.S. Azariah (1874-1945), the first Indian bishop of an Anglican diocese and the most successful leader of rural conversion movements to Christianity in modern India. Harper carefully explores Bishop Azariahs work, including his attempts to redress racism and improve social conditions in India, and documentsfor the first time anywherethe previously unknown controversy between Bishop Azariah and the great Mahatma Gandhi.
0802846793 9780802846792 080283874X 9780802838742 0700712321 9780700712328
99049030
GBA068211 bnb
Azariah, Vedanayagam Samuel, 1874-1945.
Church of South India. Dornakal Diocese --Biography.
Church of South India--Bishops--Biography.
India, South--Church history--20th century.
BX7066.5.Z8 / A934 2000
283/.092 B