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

1. Verfasser: Becker, Adam H., 1972-
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Umfang/Format: xviii, 432 p. ; 23 cm.
Schlagworte:
Assyrian Church of the East members > History > 19th century.
Evangelistic work > Iran > History > 19th century.
Missionaries > United States > History > 19th century.
Missions to Assyrian Church of the East members > History > 19th century.
Nationalism > Religious aspects > Christianity > History > 19th century.
Protestant churches > Missions > Iran > History > 19th century.
Syriac Christians > Iran > Religion > History > 19th century.
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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.

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