عنوان

Revival and awakening

978-0-226-14531-0

IR

553429

انگلیسی

IR

Revival and awakening

[Book]

: American evangelical missionaries in Iran and the origins of Assyrian nationalism

/ Adam H. Becker

Chicago

: The University of Chicago Press

, 2015

xviii, 432 p.

; 24 cm.

انگليسي

Includes bibliographical references (p.[399]- 418) and index

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

Missions to Assyrian Church of the East members -- History -- 19th century

Protestant churches -- Missions -- Iran -- History -- 19th century

Missionaries -- United States -- History -- 19th century

Evangelistic work -- Iran -- History -- 19th century

Syriac Christians -- Iran -- Religion -- History -- 19th century

Assyrian Church of the East members -- History -- 19th century

Nationalism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History -- 19th century

Becker

, Adam H.

, 1972-

, author

Iran

Central Library Of Tehran University

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