Revival and awakening: American evangelical missionaries in Iran and the origins of Assyrian nationalism
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, Ma...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Chicago London
The University of Chicago Press
2015
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| In: | Year: 2015 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ Mission (international law
/ Iran
/ Evangelical movement
/ Nationalism
/ History 1800-1900
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| IxTheo Classification: | RJ Mission; missiology |
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Syriac Christians
Religion
19th century
Iran
B Missionaries History 19th century United States B Protestant Churches Missions History 19th century Iran B Missions to Assyrian Church of the East members History 19th century B Nationalism Religious aspects Christianity History 19th century B Assyrian Church of the East members History 19th century B Evangelistic work History 19th century Iran |
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| Summary: | 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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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | xviii, 432 S., Ill., 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 978-0-226-14528-0 0-226-14528-X 978-0-226-14531-0 0-226-14531-X |
