Revival and awakening : American evangelical missionaries in Iran and the origins of Assyrian nationalism /

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This volume examines how the presence of an American evangelical mission in the borderlands between Qajar Iran and the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century contributed to the development of a secular nationalism among the indigenous Neo-Aramaic speaking Christian population of the region. A part...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Becker, Adam H., 1972- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Temas:
1800-1899
Missions to Assyrian Church of the East members > History > 19th century.
Protestant churches > Missions > Iran > History > 19th century.
Missionaries > United States > History > 19th century.
Evangelistic work > Iran > History > 19th century.
Syriac Christians > Iran > Religion > History > 19th century.
Assyrian Church of the East members > History > 19th century.
Nationalism > Religious aspects > Christianity > History > 19th century.
Missions auprès des nestoriens > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Églises protestantes > Missions > Iran > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Missionnaires > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Évangélisation > Iran > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Chrétiens syriaques > Iran > Religion > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Nestoriens > Histoire > 19e siècle.
RELIGION > Christian Ministry > Missions.
Assyrian Church of the East members.
Evangelistic work.
Missionaries.
Missions to Assyrian Church of the East members.
Nationalism > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Protestant churches > Missions.
Iran.
United States.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prelude: a song of Assyria
  • Introduction: religious reform, nationalism, and Christian mission
  • The church of the East before the modern missionary encounter: historicizing
  • Religion before "religion"
  • A residence of eight years in Persia (1843): Mr. Perkins of West Springfield, Massachusetts, meets Mar Yokhannan of Gawilan, Persia
  • Printing the living word: moral reform and the awakening of nation and self (1841-70)
  • Being together in the living word: the mission and Evangelical sociality (1834-70)
  • Death, the maiden, and dreams of revival
  • National contestation and evangelical consciousness: the journals of native assistants
  • Continuity and change in the late nineteenth century: new institutions, missionary competition, and the first generation of nationalists
  • 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.

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