Artillery of heaven : American missionaries and the failed conversion of the Middle East /

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The complex relationship between America and the Arab world goes back further than most people realize. In Artillery of Heaven, Ussama Makdisi presents a foundational American encounter with the Arab world that occurred in the nineteenth century, shortly after the arrival of the first American Prote...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Makdisi, Ussama Samir, 1968- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.
Colección:United States in the world.
Temas:
Shidyāq, Asʻad, > 1798-1830.
Shidyāq, Asʻad, > 1798-1830
Šidyāq, Asʻad, > 1798-1830.
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
Maroniten.
1800-1899
Geschichte 1800-1900
Geschichte 1810-1860
Missions, American > Lebanon > History > 19th century.
Missions, American > Middle East > History > 19th century.
Religious pluralism > Middle East > History > 19th century.
Maronites > Lebanon > History > 19th century.
Christianity and other religions > Islam.
Islam > Relations > Christianity.
Missions américaines > Liban > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Maronites > Liban > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Christianisme > Relations > Islam.
Islam > Relations > Christianisme.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
RELIGION > Christian Ministry > Missions.
Christianity
Interfaith relations
Islam
Maronites
Missions, American
Religious pluralism
Mission
Mission > amerikanische > Naher Osten > Geschichte 19. Jh.
Mission > Evangelische Kirche > Naher Osten > Geschichte 19. Jh.
Evangelische Kirche > Mission > Naher Osten > Geschichte 19. Jh.
Maroniten > Konversion (Relig.) > Libanon > Geschichte 19. Jh.
Konversion > (Relig.) > Maroniten > Libanon > Geschichte 19. Jh.
Protestantische Kirche.
Religiöse Verfolgung.
Konversion (Religion)
Kulturkontakt.
Mission.
Lebanon
Middle East
USA
Naher Osten
Midden-Oosten.
USA.
Libanon.
Amerikaner.
Araber.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Mather's America
  • "The grammar of heresy" : coexistence in an Ottoman Arab world
  • The flying of time
  • The artillery of heaven
  • An Arab puritan
  • The apotheosis of American exceptionalism
  • The vindication of Asʻad Shidyaq.

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