The Anglican Church in Malaysia: Evolving Concepts, Challenging Contexts, Emerging Subtexts

This book examines the Anglican Church in Malaysia from multiple angles, unpacking its history from British colonialism to today’s modern, Muslim-majority Asian nation. Analyzing tense Christian-Muslim dialogue and volatile intercommunity relations, themes of ethnicity, identity, gender, multiculturalism, and prejudice intersect in contexts of war, communist insurgency, and national independence struggles. 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 creatively integrates contemporary perspectives, archive sources, and current scholarship. It homes in on high-pressure interfaces between colonialists, missionaries, sultans, indigenous communities, and immigrant groups. The roles of education and healthcare—as evangelism, or perhaps incentivization—are investigated, within evolving models of mission, conversion, and the broader context of worldwide Anglicanism in crisis. These diverse threads intertwine and combine to produce a concise but comprehensive three-dimensional portrait of the Anglican Church in Malaysia.

• | Author: Edward Jarvis
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Aug 27, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 220 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Religion
• | ISBN-10: 3031115961
• | ISBN-13: 9783031115967