Christian Missions and Humanitarianism in The Middle East, 1850-1950 : Ideologies, Rhetoric, and Practices /

Christian Missions and Humanitarianism in The Middle East, 1850-1950 : Ideologies, Rhetoric, and Practices /

From the early phases of modern missions, Christian missionaries supported many humanitarian activities, mostly framed as subservient to the preaching of Christianity. This anthology contributes to a historically grounded understanding of the complex relationship between Christian missions and the r...

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Other Authors: Okkenhaug, Inger Marie (Editor), Summerer, Karène Sanchez (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2020.

Series: Leiden Studies in Islam and Society ; 11.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2020, ISBN: 9789004405868.

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Humanitarian assistance > Middle East > History > 19th century.
Humanitarian assistance > Middle East > History > 20th century.
Missions > Middle East > History > 19th century.
Missions > Middle East > History > 20th century.

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Call Number: BV3160

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Table of Contents:
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Inger Marie Okkenhaug and Karène Sanchez-Summerer
  • Part 1 Prologue
  • 1 Missions, Charity and Humanitarian Action in the Levant (19th-20th Century)
  • Chantal Verdeil
  • Part 2 Advocacy
  • 2 Liberated Bodies and Saved Souls: Freed African Slave Girls and Missionaries in Egypt
  • Beth Baron
  • 3 Physical Expressions of Winning Hearts and Minds: Body Politics of the American Missionaries in "Asiatic Turkey"
  • Nazan Maksudyan
  • 4 Spiritual Reformation and Engagement with the World: Scandinavian Mission, Humanitarianism and Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, 1905-1914
  • Inger Marie Okkenhaug
  • 5 'A Strange Survival': The Rev. W.A. Wigram on the Assyrians before and after World War  I
  • Heleen Murre-van den Berg
  • Part 3 Best Practices
  • 6 Missionary Hubris in Colonial Algeria? Founding and Governing Christian Arab Villages 1868-1930
  • Bertrand Taithe
  • 7 Missionary Work, Secularization and Donor Dependency: Rockefeller-Near East Colleges Cooperation after World War  I (1920-1939)
  • Philippe Bourmaud
  • 8 "Machine Age Humanitarianism": American Humanitarianism in Early 20th Century Syria and Lebanon
  • Idir Ouahes
  • 9 Scottish Presbyterian Churches and Humanitarianism in the Interwar Middle East
  • Michael Marten
  • Part 4 Epilogue: Impact of the 1948 Crisis
  • 10 Confined by Conflict, Run by Relief: Arabs, Jews, and the Finnish Mission in Jerusalem, 1940-1950
  • Seija Jalagin
  • 11 Catholic Humanitarian Assistance for Palestinian Refugees: The Franciscan Casa Nova of Jerusalem in the 1948 Storm
  • Maria Chiara Rioli
  • Index.