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American Evangelicals in Egypt : Missionary Encounters in an Age of Empire /

In 1854, American Presbyterian missionaries arrived in Egypt as part of a larger Anglo-American Protestant movement aiming for worldwide evangelization. Protected by British imperial power, and later by mounting American global influence, their enterprise flourished during the next century. American...

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Autor principal: Sharkey, Heather J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2013]
Edición:Course Book
Colección:Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World ; 46
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Note On Transliteration, Translation, And Spelling
  • Chapter 1. The American Missionary Encounter in Egypt
  • Chapter 2. The American Mission, Coptic Reform, and the Making of an Egyptian Evangelical Community, 1854-82
  • Chapter 3. The Colonial Moment of the American Mission, 1882-1918
  • Chapter 4. Egyptian Nationalism, Religious Liberty, and the Rethinking of the American Mission, 1918-45
  • Chapter 5. The Mission of the American University in Cairo
  • Chapter 6. Turning to the Life of the Church: American Mission in an Age of Egyptian Decolonization and Arab-Israeli Politics, 1945-67
  • Conclusion. Conversions And Transformations
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index