American missionaries and the Middle East: foundational encounters

American missionaries and the Middle East / Heather J. Sharkey -- From New England into new lands : the beginning of a long story / Mehmet Ali Doǧan -- The flexibility of home : exploring the spaces and definitions of the home and family employed by the ABCFM missionaries in Ottoman Syria from 1823...

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Contributors: Doğan, Mehmet Ali 1976- (Editor) ; Sharkey, Heather Jane 1967- (Other)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Salt Lake City University of Utah Press c2011
In:Year: 2011
Further subjects:B Missions, American (Middle East) History 20th century Congresses
B Middle East
B Middle East Church history 19th century Congresses
B Missions, American
B Missions, American Congresses History 19th century Middle East
B Middle East Congresses Church history 20th century
B Missions, American Congresses History 20th century Middle East
B Middle East Congresses Church history 19th century
B Middle East Church history 20th century Congresses
B Missions, American (Middle East) History 19th century Congresses
B Conference program
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Summary:American missionaries and the Middle East / Heather J. Sharkey -- From New England into new lands : the beginning of a long story / Mehmet Ali Doǧan -- The flexibility of home : exploring the spaces and definitions of the home and family employed by the ABCFM missionaries in Ottoman Syria from 1823 to 1860 / Christine Lindner -- At the center of the debate : Bebek Seminary and the educational policy of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (1840-1860) / Cemal Yetkiner -- From religious to American proselytism : Mary Mills Patrick and the "sanctification of the intellect" / Carolyn Goffman -- "They are not known to us" : the Ottomans, the Mormons, and the Protestants in the late Ottoman Empire / Karen M. Kern -- The gospel of science and American evangelism in late Ottoman Beirut / Marwa Elshakry -- Petko Slaveykov, the Protestant Press, and the gendered language of moral reform in Bulgarian nationalism / Barbara Reeves-Ellington -- American missionaries, the Arabic Bible, and Coptic reform in late nineteenth-century Egypt / Heather J. Sharkey -- Comparing missions : Pentecostal and Presbyterian orphanages on the Nile / Beth Baron
Item Description:Proceedings of the 2005 and 2006 annual meetings of the Middle East Studies Association of North America. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-330) and index
ISBN:1607810387