Conflict, Conquest, and Conversion - Two Thousand Years of Christian Missions in the Middle East

Informationen zum Autor Eleanor H. Tejirian is an associate research scholar at the Middle East Institute, Columbia University. She is the coeditor, with Reeva Spector Simon, of The Creation of Iraq, 1914¿1921 and Altruism and Imperialism: Western Religious and Cultural Missions in the Middle East. Reeva Spector Simon is the author of Iraq Between the Two World Wars: The Militarist Origins of Tyranny and Spies and Holy Wars: The Middle East in Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction. She is also a coeditor of The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa in Modern Times. Klappentext Conflict, Conquest, and Conversion describes two thousand years of the Christian missionary enterprise in the Middle East within the context of the region¿s political evolution. Its broad, rich narrative follows Christian missions as they interact with imperial powers and as the momentum of religious change shifts from Christianity to Islam and back, adding new dimensions to the history of the region and the nature of the relationship between the Middle East and the West. Historians and political scientists increasingly recognize the importance of integrating religion into political analysis, and this volume, using long-neglected sources, provides the necessary context for this effort. It surveys Christian missions from the earliest days of Christianity to the present, with particular emphasis on the role of Christian missions, both Protestant and Catholic, in the political and economic imperialism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. T

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• Authors: Reeva Spector Simon, Simon Reeva Spector, TEJIRIAN, Eleanor Tejirian, Eleanor H. Tejirian, Eleanor H. Simon Tejirian, Tejirian Eleanor H.
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2012
• EAN: 9780231138642
• ISBN: 978-0-231-13864-2
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; History, HISTORY / Middle East / General, RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Evangelism, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Middle East, Christianity, Middle Eastern history, Religious mission and Religious Conversion