The western Christian presence in the Russias and Qajar Persia, c.1760-1870 / / by Thomas S.R.O. Flynn.

• Author: Flynn, Thomas S.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Brill,, 2016.
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Christian Mission 47.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxvii, 1,113 pages) :; illustrations, maps.

Winner of The 2018 Saidi-Sirjani Book Award In The Western Christian Presence in the Russias and Qājār Persia, c.1760–c.1870 , Thomas O'Flynn vividly paints the life and times of missionary enterprises in early nineteenth-century Russia and Persia at a moment of immense change when Tsarist Russia embarked on an expansionist campaign reaching to the Caucasus. Simultaneously he charts the relationship between the new Persian dynasty of the Qājārs and missionary activity on the part of European and American missionaries. This book reconstructs that world from a predominantly religious perspective. It recounts the sustaining ideals as well as the everyday struggles of the western missionaries, Protestant (Scottish, Basel and American Congregationalist) and Catholic (Jesuit and Vincentian). It looks at the reactions of diverse tribal peoples, the Tatars of the North Caucasus, the Kabardians and Circassians. Persia was the ultimate goal of these missionaries, which they eventually reached in the 1820s. Altogether this study throws light on the troubled course of history in West Asia and provides the background to politico-religious conflicts in Chechnya and Persia that persist to the present day.

Table of Contents

Introduction / Thomas S. R. O Flynn OP -- The Historical Backdrop / Thomas S. R. O Flynn OP -- Forerunners of the Nineteenth-Century Missionary Presence (1): Catholic Missionaries and Apologists in the Early Qājār Era / Thomas S. R. O Flynn OP -- Forerunners of the Nineteenth-Century Missionary Presence (2): Early Modern Evangelical Protestant Missionaries in Persia and Baghdad / Thomas S. R. O Flynn OP -- The United Brethren Mission in Sarepta in the Ciscaucasus (c.1765–1892): The First Decades and Asiatic Russian Mission (c.1765–1822) / Thomas S. R. O Flynn OP -- Scottish Missionaries of the Edinburgh Missionary Society and Independent Scottish Bible Missionaries (1802–35) in the North Caucasus1 / Thomas S. R. O Flynn OP -- Scottish and Jesuit Missionaries in the North Caucasus and the Imperial Russian Dominions: Karass, Astrakhan, Mozdok, Orenburg, the Crimea and Odessa (1805–30s) / Thomas S. R. O Flynn OP -- Basel (1833–37) and Scottish (1847–52) Bible Missionaries in the Caucasus, Transcaucasus and Persia / Thomas S. R. O Flynn OP -- ‘The Nestorian Mission’ (1833–69) of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in Azarbaijan and Kurdistan / Thomas S. R. O Flynn OP -- The Lazarist (Vincentian) Mission (1838–70): The Catholic Mission in Urmia (Urmi), Persian Azarbaijan and Tehran / Thomas S. R. O Flynn OP -- Persian Jews: Western Contacts and Missions (1811–90s) (1): Historical Perspectives: Early History of the Persian Jews, Persian and Western Intellectual Interaction with European Jews, and Missions to the Jews in Europe and Persia / Thomas S. R. O Flynn OP -- Persian Jews: Western Contacts and Missions (1811–c.90s) (2): The Mission to Baghdad, Mesopotamia and Persia (1844–90s) of the London Society for the Promotion of Christianity among the Jews / Thomas S. R. O Flynn OP -- Conclusion / Thomas S. R. O Flynn OP.