| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Alternative histories : narratives from the Middle East and Mediterranean |
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Alternative histories.
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| Contents |
Evangelical Awakening: Becoming Protestant in the Arab Renaissance -- "Publishing" the Gospel, Reading the Nahda: Protestant Print Culture in Late Ottoman Syria -- A Feminist Awakening? Evangelical Women and the Arab Renaissance -- Ministers and Nahdawi Masculinity: the Beirut Church Controversy -- Syrian Women with a Mission: Preaching the Bible and Building the Protestant Church -- Conclusion |
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Appendix A. Syrian Protestant genealogies -- Appendix B. American missionary families and dates of service, 1823-1915 -- Appendix C. Founding members of the evangelical independent church of Beirut, March 18, 1894 -- Appendix D. biblewomen employed by the British Syrian Mission, 1860-1914 -- Appendix E. Statistical comparison: Biblewomen of the British and American missions -- Appendix F. Publications of Syrian women at the American Mission Press, Beirut |
| Summary |
The Ottoman Syrians - residents of modern Syria and Lebanon - formed the first Arabic-speaking Evangelical Church in the region. This book offers a fresh narrative of the encounters of this minority Protestant community with American missionaries, Eastern churches and Muslims at the height of the Nahda, from 1860 to 1915 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 364-393) and indexes |
| Subject |
Evangelical Church -- History
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| SUBJECT |
Evangelical Church fast |
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Evangelicalism -- Syria -- History
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Protestants -- Syria -- History
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Missions, American -- Syria
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Evangelicalism
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Missions, American
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Protestants
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Syria
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781474436731 |
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1474436730 |
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1474436714 |
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9781474436717 |
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9781474464901 |
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1474464904 |
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