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1 online resource : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Prelude: a song of Assyria -- Introduction: 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. |
| Summary |
This volume examines how the presence of an American evangelical mission in the borderlands between Qajar Iran and the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century contributed to the development of a secular nationalism among the indigenous Neo-Aramaic speaking Christian population of the region. A particular evangelical configuration of modernity was cultivated at the mission in the antebellum period, one belonging to a visceral realm often unrecognised in characterisations of secularism and the Enlightenment. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Missions to Assyrian Church of the East members -- History -- 19th century.
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Missions to Assyrian Church of the East members. |
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History. |
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19th century |
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Protestant churches -- Missions -- Iran -- History -- 19th century.
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Protestant churches -- Missions. |
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Iran. |
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Missionaries -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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United States. |
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Evangelistic work -- Iran -- History -- 19th century.
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Missionaries. |
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Syriac Christians -- Iran -- Religion -- History -- 19th century.
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Evangelistic work. |
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Religion. |
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Assyrian Church of the East members -- History -- 19th century.
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Assyrian Church of the East members. |
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Nationalism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History -- 19th century.
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Nationalism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. |
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Syriac Christians. |
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RELIGION -- Christian Ministry -- Missions. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Becker, Adam H., 1972- Revival and awakening 9780226145280 (DLC) 2014019847 (OCoLC)880809075 |
| ISBN |
9780226145457 (electronic book) |
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022614545X (electronic book) |
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9780226145280 (print) |
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9780226145310 (print) |
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