عنوان

Conversion, controversy, and cultural production: Syrian protestants, American missionaries, and the Arabic press, ca. 1870-1915

Number

TL48279

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

Conversion, controversy, and cultural production: Syrian protestants, American missionaries, and the Arabic press, ca. 1870-1915

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Deanna F. Womack

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Young, Richard F.

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Princeton Theological Seminary

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2015

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

463

Text of Note

Committee members: Guder, Darrell L.; Moorhead, James H.

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-84173-2

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

History and Ecumenics

Body granting the degree

Princeton Theological Seminary

Text preceding or following the note

2015

Text of Note

This dissertation is a historiographical examination of the missionary encounter in Ottoman Syria (modern Syria and Lebanon) during the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Nahda, or Arab renaissance. It begins in 1870, when the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions transferred its Syria Mission to the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America. It ends in 1915 with the escalating effects of World War I in the Ottoman Arab provinces. Building upon Middle East mission historiographies, studies in world Christianity, and postcolonial critiques of missions, this study approaches the story of Syrian Protestantism as an enmeshed history in which Syrian and American lives became inextricably entwined. Moving beyond the traditional narrative, which presents American missionary men as the primary actors, this research points to the complex relationship of Syrians with American, British, and other missionaries in Ottoman Syria. It uses rare Arabic publications from the late Ottoman period and archival sources from the US, UK, and Lebanon to underline the agency of Syrian Protestant women and men who built the Syrian Evangelical Church and contributed to the socio-cultural currents of the Nahda alongside other Syrian Christians and Muslims.

Religious history; Middle Eastern history; World History

Subject Term

Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Christianity;Islam;Lebanon;Missions;Nahda;Syria

Khawaja, Sarah

Young, Richard F.

Subdivision

History and Ecumenics

Princeton Theological Seminary

Call Number

1697328395; 3708746

Electronic name

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[Thesis]

276903

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