Revival and Awakening : American Evangelical Missionaries in Iran and the Origins of Assyrian Nationalism.

Intro -- Contents -- Prelude: A Song of Assyria -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration and Names -- Introduction: Religious Reform, Nationalism, and Christian Mission -- 1. The Church of the East before the Modern Missionary Encounter: Historicizing Religion before "Religion" -- 2. A Residence of Eight Years in Persia (1843): Mr. Perkins of West Springfield, Massachusetts, meets Mar Yokhannan of Gawilan, Persia -- 3. Printing the Living Word: Moral Reform and the Awakening of Nation and Self (1841-70) -- 4. Being Together in the Living Word: The Mission and Evangelical Sociality (1834-70) -- 5. Death, the Maiden, and Dreams of Revival -- 6. National Contestation and Evangelical Consciousness: The Journals of Native Assistants -- 7. Continuity and Change in the Late Nineteenth Century: New Institutions, Missionary Competition, and the First Generation of Nationalists -- 8. Retrieving the Ruins of Nineveh: Language Reform, Orientalizing Autoethnography, and the Demand for National Literature -- Epilogue: Mirza David George Malik (1861-1931) and the Engaged Ambivalence of Poetry in Exile -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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