RT Article
T1 Catholic Missionary Education in Early Mandate Syria and Lebanon
JF Social sciences and missions
VO 30
IS 3/4
SP 225
OP 253
A1 Ouahes, Idir
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1562575341
AB This article examines the interaction of Catholic missionary education with the French mandate state in Syria and Lebanon in the 1920s. Taking a short cross-section of the Mandate era, the article argues that Catholic missionaries’ activity in the educational sphere must be considered from a meso-level analysis to complement micro-level focus on school activity and macro-level examination of imperial relations. Such an approach begins by acknowledging the particularity of the Levantine setting, wherein Catholic activity was well embedded into the locale. It also puts into evidence the utility of Catholic educational institutions in the region for the French Mandate state’s priorities. It nevertheless considers the autonomy of these institutions; for instance, the parallel hierarchy that the French Church itself represented, with its independent priorities. Finally, the article considers the significance of inter-imperial rivalry in the Levant leading to these institutions’ empowerment by French mandate authorities.
K1 French : Syria : Lebanon : Levant : Middle East : Near East : Catholic
K1 Français : Syrie : Liban : Levant : Moyen-Orient : Proche-Orient : Catholique
DO 10.1163/18748945-03003005