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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Main Author: Hauser, Julia.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: 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

Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • Origins and Implications of a Mission
  • Long-Distance Empathy and Denominational Competition
  • Struggling with the Self
  • Communicating in the Language of Love
  • Educating Orphans
  • Catering to a Diverse Clientele
  • Veteran Deaconesses and Their Ways of Accommodation
  • Sowing the Home Field
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.