German religious women in late Ottoman Beirut : competing missions /
In German Religious Women in Late Ottoman Beirut. Competing Missions , Julia Hauser offers a critical analysis of the German Protestant Kaiserswerth deaconesses' orphanage and boarding school for girls in late Ottoman Beirut as situated within the larger field of educational development in the...
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Format: eBook
Language: English
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2015]
Series:
Studies in Christian Mission
45.
Studies in Christian Mission Online, ISBN: 9789004322295.
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Call Number: BV2440 .H38 2015
| Summary: | In German Religious Women in Late Ottoman Beirut. Competing Missions , Julia Hauser offers a critical analysis of the German Protestant Kaiserswerth deaconesses' orphanage and boarding school for girls in late Ottoman Beirut as situated within the larger field of educational development in the city. Drawing, among other sources, on the deaconesses' largely unpublished letters home, her study illuminates that the only way missionary organizations like the deaconesses' could succeed was by entering into negotiations with their local environment, adapting their agenda in the process. Mission, therefore, was shaped not merely at home, but by conflictual negotiations on the periphery ‒ a perspective quite different from the top-down isolationist perspective of earlier research on missions. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 391 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-380) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004290785 |
| Access: | Available to subscribing member institutions only. |