American Evangelicals in Egypt. Missionary Encounters in an Age of Empire. - Sharkey, Heather J.
missionary encounters in an age of empire
KORTE INHOUD
In 1854, American Presbyterian missionaries arrived in Egypt as part of a larger Anglo-American Protestant movement aiming for worldwide evangelization. Protected by British imperial power, and later by mounting American global influence, their enterprise flourished during the next century. American Evangelicals in Egypt follows the ongoing and often unexpected transformations initiated by missionary activities between the mid-nineteenth century and 1967--when the Six-Day Arab-Israeli War uprooted the Americans in Egypt. Heather Sharkey uses Arabic and English sources to shed light on the many facets of missionary encounters with Egyptians. These occurred through institutions, such as schools and hospitals, and through literacy programs and rural development projects that anticipated later efforts of NGOs. To Egyptian Muslims and Coptic Christians, missionaries presented new models for civic participation and for women's roles in collective worship and community life. At the same time, missionary efforts to c...
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2008Uitgever: Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2008.318 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 069112261XISBN-13: 9780691122618Helaas, laatste exemplaar van deze editie is recent verkocht!
