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New Faith in Ancient Lands : Western Missions in the Middle East in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Christian Mission SeriesPublisher: Boston : BRILL, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (351 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789047411406
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: New Faith in Ancient LandsLOC classification:
  • BV3160.N49 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- New Faith in Ancient Lands -- CONTENTS -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Spirituality and Scholarship: The Holy Land in Jesuit Eyes (Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries) -- William McClure Thomson's The Land and the Book (1859): Pilgrimage and Mission in Palestine -- Les Franciscains en Terre Sainte: de l'espace au territoire, entre opposition et adaptation -- The Coptic Catholic Church, the Apostolic Vicar Maximus Giuaid (1821-1831), the Propaganda Fide and the Franciscans in Early Nineteenth-Century Egypt -- Danger and the Missionary Enterprise: The Murder of Miss Matilda Creasy -- Public Space and Private Spheres: The Foundation of St Luke's Hospital of Nablus by the CMS (1891-1901) -- The Metamorphosis of a Pietistic Missionary and Educational Institution into a Social Services Enterprise: The Case of the Syrian Orphanage (1860-1945) -- Die deutschen Kurdenmissionen in Mahabad in ihrem Kontakt zu den orientalischen Christen -- German "Home Mission" Abroad: The Orientarbeit of the Deaconess Institution Kaiserswerth in the Ottoman Empire -- American Protestant Missionary Beginnings in Beirut and Istanbul: Policy, Politics, Practice and Response -- "Missions in Eden": Shaping an Educational and Social Program for the Armenians in Eastern Turkey -- Evangelization or Education: American Protestant Missionaries, the American Board, and the Girls and Women of Syria (1830-1910) -- Muslim Response to Missionary Activities in Egypt: With a Special Reference to the Al-Azhar High Corps of 'Ulamâ (1925-1935) -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: This volume presents a range of up-to-date studies on nineteenth-century Christian missions in the Middle East. Important themes are the history of Christian geopiety and the tensions between nationalist and internationalist interests, rival missionary organisations and conversionalist and civilizational aims.
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Intro -- New Faith in Ancient Lands -- CONTENTS -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Spirituality and Scholarship: The Holy Land in Jesuit Eyes (Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries) -- William McClure Thomson's The Land and the Book (1859): Pilgrimage and Mission in Palestine -- Les Franciscains en Terre Sainte: de l'espace au territoire, entre opposition et adaptation -- The Coptic Catholic Church, the Apostolic Vicar Maximus Giuaid (1821-1831), the Propaganda Fide and the Franciscans in Early Nineteenth-Century Egypt -- Danger and the Missionary Enterprise: The Murder of Miss Matilda Creasy -- Public Space and Private Spheres: The Foundation of St Luke's Hospital of Nablus by the CMS (1891-1901) -- The Metamorphosis of a Pietistic Missionary and Educational Institution into a Social Services Enterprise: The Case of the Syrian Orphanage (1860-1945) -- Die deutschen Kurdenmissionen in Mahabad in ihrem Kontakt zu den orientalischen Christen -- German "Home Mission" Abroad: The Orientarbeit of the Deaconess Institution Kaiserswerth in the Ottoman Empire -- American Protestant Missionary Beginnings in Beirut and Istanbul: Policy, Politics, Practice and Response -- "Missions in Eden": Shaping an Educational and Social Program for the Armenians in Eastern Turkey -- Evangelization or Education: American Protestant Missionaries, the American Board, and the Girls and Women of Syria (1830-1910) -- Muslim Response to Missionary Activities in Egypt: With a Special Reference to the Al-Azhar High Corps of 'Ulamâ (1925-1935) -- Bibliography -- Index.

This volume presents a range of up-to-date studies on nineteenth-century Christian missions in the Middle East. Important themes are the history of Christian geopiety and the tensions between nationalist and internationalist interests, rival missionary organisations and conversionalist and civilizational aims.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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