Christian missions and humanitarianism in the Middle East, 1850-1950 : ideologies, rhetoric, and practices /
"From the early phases of modern missions, Christian missionaries supported many humanitarian activities, mostly framed as subservient to the preaching of Christianity. This anthology contributes to a historically grounded understanding of the complex relationship between Christian missions and...
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| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2020.
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| Series: | Leiden studies in Islam and society ;
v. 11. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Inger Marie Okkenhaug, Karène Sanchez-Summerer
- Missions, charity and humanitarian action in the Levant (19th-20th Century) / Chantal Verdeil
- Liberated bodies and saved souls : freed African slave girls and missionaries in Egypt / Beth Baron
- Physical expressions of winning hearts and minds : body politics of the American missionaries in "Asiatic Turkey" / Nazan Maksudyan
- Spiritual reformation and engagement with the world : Scandinavian mission, humanitarianism and Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, 1905-1914 89 / Inger Marie Okkenhaug
- A strange survival : the Rev. W.A. Wigram on the Assyrians before and after World War I / Heleen Murre-van den Berg
- Missionary hubris in colonial Algeria? : founding and governing Christian Arab billages 1868-1930 / Bertrand Taithe
- Missionary work, secularization and donor dependency : Rockefeller-Near East Colleges cooperation after World War I (1920-1939) / Philippe Bourmaud
- Machine age humanitarianism : American humanitarianism in early 20th Century Syria and Lebanon / Idir Ouahes
- Scottish Presbyterian churches and humanitarianism in the interwar Middle East / Michael Marten
- Confined conflict, run relief : Arabs, Jews, and the Finnish Mission in Jerusalem, 1940-1950 / Seija Jalagin
- Catholic humanitarian assistance for Palestinian refugees : rhe Franciscan Casa Nova of Jerusalem in the 1948 Storm / Maria Chiara Rioli.