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Author Sharkey, Heather J

Title American Evangelicals in Egypt : Missionary Encounters in an Age of Empire
Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (338 pages)
Series Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World
Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern world.
Summary 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
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Subject Presbyterian Church -- Missions -- Egypt
Americans -- Egypt -- History
Americans
Presbyterian Church -- Missions
Egypt
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781400837250
1400837251