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 Russ...

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.