Christian missions and humanitarianism in the Middle East, 1850-1950 : ideologies, rhetoric, and practices / Inger Marie Okkenhaug, Karène Sanchez Summerer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Okkenhaug, Inger Marie, editor.

Sanchez-Summerer, Karene, editor.

Series:

Leiden studies in Islam and society ; v. 11.

Leiden studies in Islam and society ; volume 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Missions--Middle East--History--19th century.

Missions.

Missions--Middle East--History--20th century.

Humanitarian assistance--Middle East--History--19th century.

Humanitarian assistance.

Humanitarian assistance--Middle East--History--20th century.

Christianity and international relations--Middle East--History--19th century.

Christianity and international relations.

Christianity and international relations--Middle East--History--20th century.

Humanitarianism--Middle East--History--19th century.

Humanitarianism.

Humanitarianism--Middle East--History--20th century.

History.

Middle East.

Physical Description:

xiv, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Koninklijke Brill NV, [2020]

Summary:

From the early phases of modern missions, Christian missionaries supported many humanitarian activities, mostly framed as subservient to the preaching of Christianity. This anthology contributes to a historically grounded understanding of the complex relationship between Christian missions and the roots of humanitarianism and its contemporary uses in a Middle Eastern context. Contributions focus on ideologies, rhetoric, and practices of missionaries and their apostolates towards humanitarianism, from the mid-19th century Middle East crises, examining different missionaries, their society's worldview and their networks in various areas of the Middle East. In the early 20th century Christian missions increasingly paid more attention to organisation and bureaucratisation ('rationalisation'), and media became more important to their work. The volume analyses how non-missionaries took over, to a certain extent, the aims and organisations of the missionaries as to humanitarianism. It seeks to discover and retrace such 'entangled histories' for the first time in an integral perspective. Also available in Open Access.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Prologue

1. Missions, Charity, and Humanitarian Action in the Levant (igth-20th Century) / Chantal Verdeil

pt. 2 Advocacy

2. Liberated Bodies and Saved Souls: Freed African Slave Girls and Missionaries in Egypt / Beth Baron

3. Physical Expressions of Winning Hearts and Minds: Body Politics of the American Missionaries in "Asiatic Turkey" / Nazan Maksudyan

4. Spiritual Reformation and Engagement with the World: Scandinavian Mission, Humanitarianism, and Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, 1905-1914 / Inger Marie Okkenhaug

5. "A Strange Survival": The Rev. W.A. Wigram on the Assyrians before and after World War 1 / Heleen Murre-van den Berg

pt. 3 Best Practices

6. Missionary Hubris in Colonial Algeria? Founding and Governing Christian Arab Villages 1868-1930 / Bertrand Taithe

7. Missionary Work, Secularization, and Donor Dependency: Rockefeller-Near East Colleges Cooperation after World War I (1920-1939) / Philippe Bourmaud

8. "Machine Age Humanitarianism": American Humanitarianism in Early 20th-century Syria and Lebanon / Idir Ouahes

9. Scottish Presbyterian Churches and Humanitarianism in the Interwar Middle East / Michael Marten

pt. 4 Epilogue: Impact of the 1948 Crisis

10. Confined by Conflict, Run by Relief: Arabs, Jews, and the Finnish Mission in Jerusalem, 1940-1950 / Seija Jalagin

11. Catholic Humanitarian Assistance for Palestinian Refugees: The Franciscan Casa Nova of Jerusalem during the 1948 War / Maria Chiara Rioli.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004394667

9004394664

OCLC:

1205590157