"True Catholicism" in colonial South Asia : the independent Catholics in Ceylon and India in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Wei Jiang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jiang, Wei (Writer on Catholicism), author.

Series:

Studien zur aussereuropäischen Christentumsgeschichte (Asien, Afrika, Lateinamerika) ; 1611-0080 Bd. 37.

Studien zur außereuropäischen Christentumsgeschichte (Asien, Afrika, Lateinamerika), 1611-0080 ; volume 37

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Independent Catholic churches--Sri Lanka--History--19th century.

Independent Catholic churches.

Independent Catholic churches--Sri Lanka--History--20th century.

Independent Catholic churches--India--History--19th century.

Independent Catholic churches--India--History--20th century.

Sri Lanka--Church history--19th century.

Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka--Church history--20th century.

India--Church history--19th century.

India.

India--Church history--20th century.

Genre:

Church history.

History.

Informational works.

Physical Description:

246 pages : color illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2023.

Summary:

"As a case study of the religious history of colonial Sri Lanka in the 19th and early 20th centuries, this book by Jiang Wei explores the prehistory, development, and decline of the 'Independent Catholic Mission' established in Colombo in 1888. This movement of religious emancipation was closely linked to other reformist endeavours like local trade unions and was ministered by former Roman Catholic priests from Goa and Colombo. Led by the Goan priest Antonio Alvares (1836-1923), the global context of the Independent Catholics included worldwide ecumenical networks and cross-confessional rivalries involving Old Catholics, Anglicans, Syrian Orthodox, and Roman Catholics both within Asia and beyond. By drawing attention to religious independentism in Catholic Asia around 1900, this monograph represents an important contribution to a polycentric history of Christianity." --Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Catholicism and European Colonialism in Ceylon

Padroado Controversies in South Asia

Ecumenical Catholicities in the Nineteenth century

Ceylon II : The Independent Catholic Mission 1887-ca.1900

India : Indian Representations of the Independent Catholic Mission in Ceylon

The Independent Catholic in the Ceylon Public Sphere.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-237).

Other Format:

e-book version

ISBN:

9783447118477

3447118474

OCLC:

1372423205

Publisher Number:

9783447118477