Life of William Carey, D.d - Shoemaker and Missionary

Klappentext A fascinating account of the life of William Carey, one of the nineteenth century's pioneers of Protestant mission in India. Zusammenfassung George Smith's Life of William Carey (1885) offers a vivid account of the life and work of one of the nineteenth century's greatest pioneers of Protestant mission. The biography is based on Carey's letters and personal papers! missionary records from Carey's Indian office! and the recollections of friends and colleagues. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Carey's College; 2. The birth of England's foreign missions; 3. India as Carey found it; 4. Six years in North Bengal - missionary and indigo planter; 5. The new crusade - Serampore and the Brotherhood; 6. The first native converts and Christian schools; 7. Calcutta and the mission centres from Delhi to Amboyna; 8. Carey's family and friends; 9. Professor of Sanskrit, Bengali, and Marathi; 10. The Wiclif of the east - Bible translation; 11. What Carey did for literature and for humanity; 12. What Carey did for science - founder of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India; 13. Carey's immediate influence in Great Britain and America; 14. Carey as an educator - the first Christian college in the east; 15. Carey's last days; Appendix; Index.

Product details

• Authors: George Smith
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2011
• EAN: 9781108029186
• ISBN: 978-1-108-02918-6
• No. of pages: 500
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - South Asian History
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious, RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Missions, RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Evangelism, RELIGION / Christianity / General, India, Christian mission & evangelism, Christianity, Biography: religious & spiritual, Asian History, Biography: religious and spiritual, Religious mission and Religious Conversion, HISTORY / Asia / South / India