Susan Billington Harper, In the Shadow of the Mahatma. Bishop V. S. Azariah and the Travails of Christianity in British India (Grand Rapids, MI/Cambridge, UK: Eerdmans/Curzon Press, 2000, £40. pp. 462, incl. index. ISBN 0-8028-3874-X, Library of Congress; 0-7007-I232-I, British Library)

2002 ◽  
Vol 113 (4) ◽  
pp. 121-123
Author(s):  
Frank Whaling
Keyword(s):  
British Library ◽  
Library Of Congress ◽  
British India ◽  
Grand Rapids

The Making of a World Religion

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Sun
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Work ◽  
British Library ◽  
Bodleian Library ◽  
British India ◽  
World Religion ◽  
World Religions ◽  
Small Circle ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Max Müller ◽  
Religious Nature

This chapter analyzes the connection between the making of Confucianism as a religion and the emergence of comparative religion as a discipline, based primarily on extensive archival research conducted in the Max Müller Archive at Bodleian Library in Oxford, the British India Office Archive at the British Library, and the Archive at the Oxford University Press. It shows that by allying himself with Max Müller and the emerging discipline, professor James Legge moved the controversy over the religious nature of Confucianism from the small circle of missionaries in China to a new arena. Through innovative boundary work, Müller and Legge helped establish a legitimate intellectual field to promote the discourse of world religions of which Confucianism was an essential part.

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