Christian Missions and Humanitarianism in the Middle East, 1850-1950 : : Ideologies, Rhetoric, and Practices / / Inger Marie Okkenhaug and Karène Sanchez Summerer.
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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| Superior document: | Leiden Studies in Islam and Society Series ; Volume 11 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Leiden studies in Islam and society ;
Volume 11. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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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.