
University Park PA: Penn State University Press. The Anglican Church in Burma: From Colonial Past to Global Future. Carlos Duarte Costa: Testament of a Socialist Bishop. Sede Vacante: The Life and Legacy of Archbishop Thuc. God, Land & Freedom: The True Story of ICAB.

In 2021 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society ( FRHistS).

He was previously a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Jarvis was elected a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society ( FRAS) in 2019. In 20 he produced two volumes on the history and theology of the Anglican Churches in Southeast Asia. He has contributed to periodicals of church and society interest.

Jarvis authored the first ever biographies of Brazilian bishop Carlos Duarte Costa and the Vietnamese archbishop Ngô Đình Thục, brother of President Ngô Đình Diệm. Jarvis attended the Malet Lambert School before studying theology and religious studies at Trinity & All Saints College, York St John, and the Logos Institute of Theology. He is a first cousin (five times removed) of travel writer, novelist, and biblical translator George Borrow and a distant cousin of Colonel Sir Weston Jarvis, an MP and Chair of the Royal Empire Society. His great-grandfather was the Italian film actor Umberto Sclanizza. Early life and education Įdward Jarvis was born in Kingston upon Hull, England, in 1975, to an English father and an Italian mother.

His books address previously underresearched topics, namely the Independent Sacramental Movement and the introduction of Christianity in Southeast Asia, particularly in Vietnam, Myanmar (Burma), and Malaysia. Theology and Religious Studies, Church HistoryĮdward Jarvis FRAS FRHistS (born 1975) is a British author of religious history, politics and theology, and an Anglican clergyman.
