The Social Dimension of Christian Missions in the Middle East
Historical Studies of the 19th and 20th Centuries
edited by Norbert Friedrich, Roland Loffler and Uwe Kaminsky
Paperback (Published)
(September 2010)
ISBN: 9783515096560
6.65 x 9.45 inches
Price: $68.00
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Christian missions in the Middle East were and still are a highly sensitive topic. For a number of academics, they have destroyed indigenous cultures and are nothing else than the religious wing of imperialism. A new development in historiography gives a different interpretation: Missions seem to have strongly contributed to the development of social work, healthcare, education, and science in certain regions of the world – sometimes even implementing basic social infrastructure that has been neglected by local rulers for decades or centuries. In particular, the missions in the Middle East have exhibited a strong “social dimension”. Thus, one could even speak of a specific “trademark”, for conversions hardly took place in the “house of Islam”, and also among Jews during the 19th and 20th century. This volumne brings together some of the essential papers of a conference dealing with questions of cultural, religious and social history in this field of research. It contributes to the historiography of Christian missions, welfare organisations as well as of Christian Churches in the Middle East. The book challenges the predominantly eurocentric depiction of the history of Christianity by juxtaposing a transnational reading of Christian activism in the Orient.
- Edited by Norbert Friedrich
- Edited by Uwe Kaminsky
- Edited by Roland Loffler
Other Titles in this Series
Networks of Knowledge
Epistemic Entanglement initiated by American Protestant Missionary Presence in Nineteenth-Century Syria
Die Hildesheimer Blindenmission in Hongkong
Blinde und sehbehinderte Kinder in Werk und Wahrnehmung einer Frauenmission, ca. 1890–1997
Mission und Sklaverei
Die Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine und die Sklavenemanzipation in Britisch- und Dänisch-Westindien
Die Mission des “American Board” in Syrien im 19. Jahrhundert
Implikationen eines transkulturellen Dialogs
Den Chinesen ein Chinese werden
Die deutsche protestantische Frauenmission in China 1842-1952
Volume 11
Mission und Macht im Wandel politischer Orientierungen
Europaische Missionsgesellschaften in politischen Spannungsfeldern in Afrika und Asien zwischen 1800 und 1945
Volume 10
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