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Smyth, Stuart J.

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The Evangelical component of imperialism.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Evangelical component of imperialism./
Author:	Smyth, Stuart J.
Description:	326 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-02, Section: A, page: 5870.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International59-02A.
Subject:	Asian history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9825791
ISBN:	9780591780512

The Evangelical component of imperialism.
Smyth, Stuart J.

The Evangelical component of imperialism. - 326 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-02, Section: A, page: 5870.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Albany, 1998.

The objective of this dissertation is to examine the role of Evangelical Christianity within the broad area of imperialism. It is entitled The Evangelical component of imperialism. The chronological period covered is roughly the late eighteenth century to the years just prior to World War I, more specifically from 1789 to 1914. While the seedbed of Evangelism is shown to have been Great Britain, and, by intellectual extension, America, the focus is its application in the broad geographical areas of India and China.

ISBN: 9780591780512Subjects--Topical Terms:

1099323
Asian history.

The Evangelical component of imperialism.
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520 $a The objective of this dissertation is to examine the role of Evangelical Christianity within the broad area of imperialism. It is entitled The Evangelical component of imperialism. The chronological period covered is roughly the late eighteenth century to the years just prior to World War I, more specifically from 1789 to 1914. While the seedbed of Evangelism is shown to have been Great Britain, and, by intellectual extension, America, the focus is its application in the broad geographical areas of India and China.
520 $a In order to define and justify the beginnings of Evangelism the letters of the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury have been utilized from the archives of the Special Collections in the State University of New York at Albany. Shaftesbury was at the center of the reform movement of the early nineteenth century, concerned with both domestic and foreign issues, such as the first Opium War and the Indian Mutiny. He personified the serious, pious beliefs of the Evangelicals in wanting to improve the lives and save the souls of the millions of people added to British suzerainty by imperial expansion. The core of this dissertation is four case studies, which demonstrate how Evangelism was utilized by individuals from various backgrounds and with different interests to enhance and complement the overall operation of imperialism. Two individuals each have been chosen from the Indian and Chinese arenas, all who reflected the zeal of the Evangelicals. Two were Britons and two Americans: this was done deliberately because the bulk of missionary work in India was done by the British, while Americans played a disproportional large role in China, particularly by the end of the nineteenth century. The two individuals in India were a soldier (Sir Henry Lawrence) and a teacher (Canon Cecil Tyndale-Biscoe): the two in China were a teaching missionary (Luella Miner) and a scholar (Elijah Coleman Bridgman).
520 $a Sir Henry Lawrence served as a mercenary to native Indian princes: he was killed during the Indian Mutiny at the siege of Lucknow in 1858.
520 $a Canon Tyndale-Biscoe operated a school for Brahman (upper class Indian) boys, which became a model of secular Christian education. He remained there through both world wars, retiring to Africa at Indian independence, where he died in 1949.
520 $a Elijah Bridgman went to the Far East where he worked with Robert Morrison, the first Protestant missionary to China. Morrison was a linguist for the East India Company in Canton. He helped Bridgman learn both mandarin Chinese language and culture.
520 $a Luella Miner was part of a large group of American female missionaries who flocked to China in the late nineteenth century, many of whom were murdered during the anti-foreign Boxer Rebellion.
520 $a Points raised in the case studies have led logically to further extrapolation of this subject, which has broadened the scope of the study. Syncretic religions have been examined, along with muscular Christianity, as they were exemplified by the lives, works and ideas of the case studies. A final chapter looks at modern day Evangelicals.
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