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Re-inventing Islam helps us understand the historical Protestant ideas about Islam that have influenced Islamophobia in the US today. It looks specifically at the ways Protestant leaders and missionaries used gender discourses to shape negative views of Muslims.
List of contents
- Chapter 1: Protestant Re-inventions of Islam in Historical Context
- Chapter 2: Gender in Protestant Re-inventions of Islam from the Reformation to the Enlightenment
- Chapter 3: Re-inventing Islam in Missionary Texts: "When Hagar Returns to Christ, Ishmael Shall Live"
- Chapter 4: Islam Re-invented for Young Readers: Children's Work for Muslim Children
- Chapter 5: Recasting the Protestant Gaze: Missionary Images of Islam as Material Religion
- Chapter 6: Performative Re-inventions: Missionary Costumes, Curios, and Comparative Religion
- Chapter 7: The Ongoing Effects of Missions: American Islamophobia and Openings for Christian-Muslim Dialogue
About the author
Deanna Ferree Womack is Associate Professor of History of Religions and Interfaith Studies at Emory University's Candler School of Theology in Atlanta. Her work focuses on Middle Eastern Christianity, missions, and Christian-Muslim relations. Womack is the author of
Protestants, Gender and the Arab Renaissance in Late Ottoman Syria (2019) and
Neighbors: Christians and Muslims Building Community (2020). She co-edits the Edinburgh University Press Studies in Middle Eastern Christianity series with Philip Forness and is the co-editor with Raimundo Barreto of
Alterity and the Evasion of Justice: Explorations of the "Other" in World Christianity (2023).
Summary
Re-inventing Islam helps us understand the historical Protestant ideas about Islam that have influenced Islamophobia in the US today. It looks specifically at the ways Protestant leaders and missionaries used gender discourses to shape negative views of Muslims.
