Revival and awakening American evangelical missionaries in Iran and the origins of Assyrian nationalism
Prelude: a song of AssyriaIntroduction: religious reform, nationalism, and Christian mission -- The church of the East before the modern missionary encounter: historicizing -- Religion before "religion" -- A residence of eight years in Persia (1843): Mr. Perkins of West Springfield, Massac...
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Chicago, Ill. u.a.
Univ. of Chicago Press
2015
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Prelude: a song of AssyriaIntroduction: religious reform, nationalism, and Christian mission -- The church of the East before the modern missionary encounter: historicizing -- Religion before "religion" -- A residence of eight years in Persia (1843): Mr. Perkins of West Springfield, Massachusetts, meets Mar Yokhannan of Gawilan, Persia -- Printing the living word: moral reform and the awakening of nation and self (1841-70) -- Being together in the living word: the mission and Evangelical sociality (1834-70) -- Death, the maiden, and dreams of revival -- National contestation and evangelical consciousness: the journals of native assistants -- Continuity and change in the late nineteenth century: new institutions, missionary competition, and the first generation of nationalists -- Retrieving the ruins of Nineveh: language reform, orientalizing autoethnography and the demand for national literature -- Epilogue: Mirza David George Malik (1861-1931) and the engaged ambivalence of poetry in exile. |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | XVIII, 432 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 9780226145310 978-0-226-14531-0 022614531X 0-226-14531-X 9780226145280 978-0-226-14528-0 022614528X 0-226-14528-X |