The impact of American Protestant Mission in Lebanon on the construction of female identity, c. 1860-1950
Posing challenging questions in an attempt to answer what impact the American Protestant missionary encounter had on middle-class Syrian women, this article focuses on the experience of Syrian women with the American Presbyterian Mission in Lebanon. It discusses missionary educational institutions a...
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Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
Language: | English |
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Routledge
2002
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Islam and Christian-Muslim relations
Year: 2002, Volume: 13, Issue: 4, Pages: 411-426 |
Further subjects: | B
Lebanon
B Women B Reformierte Kirchen B USA / United States of America B mission / world mission B Christianity B Reformed Churches B Identity B Mission / Weltmission B USA / United States of America / Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika B Frauen |
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Summary: | Posing challenging questions in an attempt to answer what impact the American Protestant missionary encounter had on middle-class Syrian women, this article focuses on the experience of Syrian women with the American Presbyterian Mission in Lebanon. It discusses missionary educational institutions as the most important site of the encounter between missionaries and women in the Middle East. It further speculates as to what young Arab women took from their mission educations' ideas of gender, modernization and deculturization in order to shape their own destinies and to create their own sense of identity. |
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ISSN: | 0959-6410 |
Contains: | In: Islam and Christian-Muslim relations
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/0959641022000016393 |