7. PERIODS
7.1 Before 1511
![bullet](_themes/clearday/cdbull1.gif) | Colless, Brian E. The traders of the pearl. The
mercantile and missionary activities of Persian and
Armenian Christians in South-East Asia, Abr
Nahrain, 10, pp.102-121. Colless, Brian E.
Persian merchants and missionaries in medieval
Malaya, Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the
Royal Asiatic Society, 1969, 2(2), pp.10-47.
England, John C. Christian communities in South
East and North East Asia - an outline of the evidence
available in seven countries before 1500 A.D., East
Asia Pastoral Review, 1988(2), pp.144-152; also in
Asia Journal of Theology, 4(1), April 1990,
pp.174-185. Modifies earlier work by Colless.
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7.2 Melaka under the Portuguese 1511-1641
![bullet](_themes/clearday/cdbull1.gif) | Schurhammer, Georg, SJ. Francis Xavier, his life his
times. Volume III : Indonesia and India 1545-1549,
1980, pp.3-51, 217-282; Volume IV : Japan and China
1549-1552, 1982, pp.5-26, 320-341, 581-616, 644-646,
Jesuit Historical Institute, Rome. Definitive work on
Xavier with good material on Melaka. Subrahmanyam,
Sanjay. Commerce and conflict: two views of
Portuguese Melaka in the 1620s, Journal of Southeast
Asian Studies, 19(1), March 1988, pp.62-79.
Teixeira, Manuel. The Portuguese missions in
Malacca and Singapore (1511-1958), Agência Geral do
Ultramar, Lisbon, 1961, 1963, 3 vols. Detailed but
uncritical.
Thomaz, Luis Filipe Ferreira Reis. The Indian
merchant communities in Malacca under the Portuguese
rule, in T R de Souza, ed., Indo-Portuguese
History: Old issues, new questions, Concept, New
Delhi, 1985, pp.56-72.
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7.3 Melaka under the Dutch 1641-1795
See Dutch, 5.3.
7.4 The Straits Settlements 1786-1842
![bullet](_themes/clearday/cdbull1.gif) | See also Anglican, 3.1; Roman Catholic, 3.10; and
London Missionary Society, 4.3. Buckley, Charles
Burton. An anecdotal history of old times in Singapore
from the foundation of the settlement under the
Honourable the East India Company on February 6th 1819 to
the transfer of the Colonial Office as part of the
Colonial possessions of the Crown on April 1st 1867,
University of Malaya Press, 1965.
Lee Poh Ping, Chinese Society in nineteenth century
Singapore, OUP, Kuala Lumpur, 1978, 139pp. Note
comments on the 1851 anti-Catholic riots, pp.66-72.
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7.5 Sarawak 1842-1881
![bullet](_themes/clearday/cdbull1.gif) | Berwick, J. Bishop Francis Thomas McDougall,
Sarawak Museum Journal, 28(37), 1970, p.423f. A
descendant discusses whether the first Anglican Bishop
was Irish or Scots. Bunyon, Charles John. Memoirs of
Francis Thomas McDougall DCL, FRCS, sometime Bishop of
Labuan and Sarawak and of Harriette, his wife,
London, 1889.
Cooper, A M. Men of Sarawak, OUP, Kuala Lumpur,
1968, pp.9-16 [Francis McDougall 1817-1886].
McDougall, Harriette, Letters from Sarawak
addressed to a child, embracing an account of the
manners, customs and religion of the inhabitants of
Borneo, the progress of the Church mission and incidents
of missionary life among the natives, Grant &
Griffin, 1854, 190pp. Another edition; Wheldon &
Wesley, London, 1924, 125pp.
McDougall, Harriette. Sketches of our life at
Sarawak, SPCK, London, and E & J B Young, New
York, 1882, 250pp. Artless and entertaining anecdotes by
an insightful observer.
Saint, Max. A flourish for the bishop and
Brookes friend Grant. Two studies in Sarawak
history, 1848-1868, Merlin Books, Braunton, England,
1985, 284pp. Reassessment of Bishop McDougall and his
wife.
Saunders, Graham Edward. Bishops and Brookes. The
Anglican mission and the Brooke Raj in Sarawak 1848-1941,
PhD thesis, University of Hull, 1989, 742pp.
Varney, P D. The Anglican Church in Sarawak from
1848 to 1852, Sarawak Museum Journal,
16(33), 1968, pp.377-406.
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7.6 The Straits Settlements 1842-1874
![bullet](_themes/clearday/cdbull1.gif) | Makepeace, W, G E Brooke, and R St.J Braddell, One
hundred years of Singapore, John Murray, London,
1921, 2 vols, 592 + 666pp. |
7.7 Sarawak and North Borneo 1881-1942
![bullet](_themes/clearday/cdbull1.gif) | Barclay, Wade Crawford, History of Methodist Missions
in six volumes, part two: The Methodist Episcopal Church
1845-1939 in two volumes: vol. IV [of six], A
worldwide church, 1896-1939, The Board of missions of
the Methodist Church, New York, 1957. Perceptive analysis
of the formative years of the Methodist mission. Cartwright,
Frank T. Tuan Hoover of Borneo, Abingdon, 1938.
186pp.
Cooper, A M. Men of Sarawak, OUP, Kuala Lumpur,
1968, pp.65-78 [Father Dunn, 1857-1933].
Henrich, Ruth. No richer harvest; the story of the
Church in Borneo, SPG/SPCK, 1934, 71pp. 1935, 68p.
Khoo Kay Keng, ed., Diocese of Sabah Silver Jubilee
1962-1987, Diocese of Sabah, P O Box 10811, 88809
Kota Kinabalu. English and Chinese, 140 + 68pp.
Historical recollections and analysis.
Lees, Shirley. Drunk before dawn, OMF, 1979.
Story of the Borneo Evangelical Mission now part of the
Overseas Missionary Fellowship.
Sharp, A F. The wings of the morning, Greaves,
London, 1953. First Archdeacon of Sarawak who also served
in Sinapore and Malacca.
Taylor, Brian. Elton Hill Diary. Story of the
founding of St Michaels Church, Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia,
1976, 46pp.
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7.8 Malaya 1874-1942
![bullet](_themes/clearday/cdbull1.gif) | Cherry, William Thomas. British Malaya as a mission
field: a summary based on the 1921 census, Moslem
World, 13, 1923, pp.30-38. Harcus, A D.
History of the Presbyterian Church in Malaya,
Journal of the Presbyterian Historical Society of
England, 10(4), May 1955, pp.160-175.
Leung Yuen Sang. Religion and Revolution - The
response of the Singapore Chinese Christians to the
Revolutionary Movement in China, in Lee Lai To,
ed., The 1911 Revolution - the Chinese in British and
Dutch Southeast Asia, Heinemann Asia, Singapore,
1987, pp.66-89.
McLeish, A. A racial melting pot: Malaya, Moslem
World, 31, 1941, pp.241-253.
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7.9 The Japanese occupation 1941-1945
![bullet](_themes/clearday/cdbull1.gif) | Baines, H W. Ye shall have tribulation, Diocesan
Synod of Singapore, 1951, 99pp. Bryan, John
Northridge, The churches of the captivity in Malaya,
SPCK, London, 1946, 72pp.
Hayter, John. Priest in prison. Four years of life
in Japanese-occupied Singapore, 1941-1945, Churchman,
Worthing, 1989; Brash, Singapore, 1991. 312pp.
Hayter, J and Bennitt, J. Singapore. The War and
After Series No. II, SPG, 1946, 36pp.
McKay, R. John Leonard Wilson, confessor for the
Faith, Hodder, 1973.
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7.10 North Borneo and Sarawak 1945-1963
![bullet](_themes/clearday/cdbull1.gif) | Peterson, Robert. Roaring Lion. Spiritism in Borneo
challenged by the power of Christ, Overseas
Missionary Fellowship, 1968, 1970. Rusha, Gladys. Truth
to tell in Borneo, 1969, Oliphants.
Senior, Geoffrey R. For love of the Chinese,
published by the author, Plymouth, 1989, 119pp. ISBN
1-871330-03-3. Experiences of an English Methodist in the
American Sarawak mission, 1958-1962.
Stanton, A W. Borneo. The War and After Series, 4,
London, 1947.
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7.11 Malaya and Singapore 1946-1963
![bullet](_themes/clearday/cdbull1.gif) | Archer, R L. The situation and prospects in
Malaya, International Review of Missions,
34, April 1945, pp.155-164. Carpenter, Kathleen. Come
in ... to the household of God, Highway Press,
London, 1958, 96pp. Methods used in New Village work by
CMS missionaries, particularly in relation to Jin Jang.
Carpenter, Kathleen. The password is love. In the
New Villages of Malaya, Highway Press, London, 1955,
84pp.
Cheeseman, H R. The Christian witness in
Malaya, Free Church Chronicle, July 1957.
Cheeseman, H R. The Presbyterian church in
Malaya (post-war rehabilitation), British Malaya,
October, 1947.
Fleming, J R. Experiment in democracy. The New
Villages in Malaysia, International Review of
Mission, 45(177), 1956, pp.101-108.
Fleming, John Robb. The growth of the Chinese Church
in the New Villages of the State of Johore, Malaya,
1950/60 - a study in the communication of the Gospel to
Chinese converts, ThD thesis, Union Theological Seminary,
New York, 1962.
Hayter, John. The Church and the new
Malaya, East and West Review 13(4), 1947,
pp.115-118.
Nyce, R, edited by S Gordon. Chinese New Villages
in Malaysia, Malaysian Sociological Research
Institute, Kuala Lumpur, 1973.
Shastri, Hermen P. Christ in tribal culture. A study
of the interaction between Christianity and Semai society
of Peninsular Malaysia in the context of the history of
the Methodist Mission (1930-1983), DTheol, University of
Heidelberg, 1989, viii + 213pp.
Sutton, Jim. Christian literature work in Malaya
and Singapore, International Review of Mission,
48(190), 1959, pp.216-221.
Wittenbach, H A. Working together IV, Malaya,
Highway Press, London, 1957, 35pp.
Woods, R W. Malaya and Singapore, East
and West Review, 29(1), January 1963, pp.20-24.
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7.12 East Malaysia 1963 to the present
![bullet](_themes/clearday/cdbull1.gif) | Bray, Jenny, Longhouse of faith, Borneo
Evangelical Mission, 1971. Bray, Jenny, Longhouse of
fear, Borneo Evangelical Mission.
Chung Hoan Ting, Peter, Archbishop of Kuching. Our
task and our responsibility. A letter of Archbishop P
Chung to all Priests, Religious and Faithful of the
Archdiocese of Kuching, Kuching, 1977, iv + 49pp.
Includes an outline history, pp.1-28.
Jeanes, Sylvia Margaret. "Your light has
come:" an historical outline of the Sabah Anglican
Interior Mission, 1956-1985, MMin thesis, Trinity
Theological College, Singapore, 1986, 166pp.
Lomax, Frank. The Church in North Borneo, East
and West Review, 29(4), October 1963, pp.22-32.
Nightingale, Ken. One way through the jungle,
OMF/BEM, 1970.
Nightingale, Ken. Tribe in transit [Penan],
39pp.
Sidaway, D. Influence of Christianity on Biatah
speaking Land Dyaks, Sarawak Museum Journal,
17(34), 1969, pp.139-151.
Vun, Albert. A church growth analysis of the Sabah
Anglican Interior Mission (1960-1979), Senior Paper,
Singapore Bible College, 1981, 93pp.
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7.13 West Malaysia 1963 to the present
![bullet](_themes/clearday/cdbull1.gif) | Childs, Lloyd. Teams multipy churches in
Malaysia/Singapore, Urban mission, 2(5),
1985, pp.33-39. Fleming, John. Communicating the
Gospel in Malayan New Villages, WCC Department
of Missionary Studies, Occasional Papers, 3(1), April
1964.
Goh Keat-Peng, Church and State in
Malaysia, Transformation, 6(3), 1989,
pp.16-20.
Nyce, Ray. Into a new age. A study of Church and
Society in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Institute for
Study of Religions and Society in Singapore and Malaysia,
Singapore, 1973.
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7.14 Singapore 1963 to 1990
![bullet](_themes/clearday/cdbull1.gif) | Groot, Francis. Conversion in Singapore, Teaching
all nations, 13(3), 1976, pp.182-192. Kaye, L and
Kulkarni, V G. A queue of Christians, Far
Eastern Economic Review, 12 January, 1984, pp.34-36.
López de Ceballos, Paloma. Conversions à
Singapour: Contribution à une sociologie de la mutation
socio-religieuse, Social Compass, International
review of socio-religious studies [Belgium], 23(1),
1976, pp.23-46. Analysis of conversions to Catholicism in
the mid 1960s.
López de Ceballos, Paloma. Permanence et
changement: étude dune mutation socio-religieuse
à Singapour, Éditions Anthropos, Paris, 1978,
386pp.
Plowman, Edward E. Spiritual upsurge in
Singapore, Christianity Today, 22, 5 May
1978, pp.48-50.
Scott, Margaret. Halting the crusade, Far
Eastern Economic Review, 2 July 1987, pp.44, 61-64.
Sng, Bobby E K, and You Poh Seng. Religious trends
in Singapore with special reference to Christianity,
Graduates Christian Fellowship, Singapore, 1982.
Tamney, Joseph B. Religion and the State in
Singapore, Journal of Church and State,
30(1), 1988, pp.109-128.
Wong, James Y K. Singapore: The church in the midst
of social change, Church Growth Study Centre, Fort
Canning Road, Singapore, 1973, 201pp. Church growth
study, particularly of Anglican and Baptist churches in
Singapore.
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