Missions and Preaching : Connected and Decompartmentalised Perspectives from the Middle East and North Africa (19th-21st Century) / Norig Neveu, Karène Sanchez Summerer, and Annalaura Turiano.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Neveu, Norig, author.

Sanchez-Summerer, Karene, author.

Turiano, Annalaura, author.

Series:

Leiden studies in Islam and society ; Volume 15.

Leiden Studies in Islam and Society Series ; Volume 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Missions--Africa, North.

Missions.

Missions--Middle East.

Preaching--Africa, North.

Preaching.

Preaching--Middle East.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill nv, [2022]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Based on a connected, relational and multidisciplinary approach (history, ethnography, political science, and theology), Mission and Preaching tackles the notion of mission through the analysis of preaching activities and religious dynamics across Christianity, Islam and Judaism, in the Middle East and North Africa, from the late 19th century until today. The 13 chapters reveal points of contact, exchange, and circulation, considering the MENA region as a central observatory. The volume offers a new chronology of the missionary phenomenon and calls for further cross-cutting approaches to decompartmentalise it, arguing that these approaches constitute useful entry points to shed new light on religious dynamics and social transformations in the MENA region. Contributors Necati Alkan, Federico Alpi, Gabrielle Angey, Armand Aupiais, Katia Boissevain, Naima Bouras, Philippe Bourmaud, Gaetan du Roy, Séverine Gabry-Thienpont, Maria-Chiara Giorda, Bernard Heyberger, Emir Mahieddin, Michael Marten, Norig Neveu, Maria Chiara Rioli, Karène Sanchez Summerer, Heather Sharkey, Ester Sigillò, Sébastien Tank Storper, Emanuela Trevisan Semi, Annalaura Turiano and Vincent Vilmain.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Norig Neveu

Copyright Page / Norig Neveu

Acknowledgements / Norig Neveu

Notes on Transliteration / Norig Neveu

Notes on Contributors / Norig Neveu

Introduction / Norig Neveu

Introduction Mission and Conversion: A Long-Term Perspective / Bernard Heyberger

Chapter 1 Proselytism in ‘Jewish Worlds’? / Sébastien Tank-Storper

Chapter 2 Protestant Missions in Ethiopia: From Jewish Falashas (Beta Israel) to Christian Falashas and Falas Mura, and Back: A Blurred Status (1858–1960) / Emanuela Trevisan Semi

Chapter 3 From Missionaries to Missionary Labour: Hypotheses on Evangelicalism in Contemporary Istanbul / Armand Aupiais

Introduction What Is Preaching and Who Is It for? / Heather J. Sharkey

Chapter 4 Reshaping the Preaching Spaces in Post-Revolutionary Egypt: Ansār al-Sunna al-Muhammadiyya Women Preachers and Religious Reform / Naïma Bouras

Chapter 5 Being a Teacher in the Missionary Schools of the Gülen Movement in Sub-Saharan Africa: Interactions, Trajectories, and Differentiated Investments of the Role / Gabrielle Angey

Chapter 6 Shifting Missions: Languages, Texts, and Experiences between Jews and Roman Catholics in Israel (1940s–1970s) / Maria Chiara Rioli

Chapter 7 Christian and Muslim Home Missions in Egypt in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: Between Preaching and Social Care / Gaétan du Roy

Introduction Mapping In, Mapping Out. Strategies and Dynamic(s) of Preaching and Mission(s) / Maria Chiara Giorda

Chapter 8 The Late Ottoman Sunni Missionary Project / Necati Alkan

Chapter 9 Early Protestant Missionary Activity, Heresy and Church in Ottoman Armenia (1782–1909) / Federico Alpi

Chapter 10 A Jewish Mission in the ‘Orients’? (Nineteenth Century–1920) / Vincent Vilmain

Chapter 11 Reconceptualising the Political Role of daʿwa in Civil Society: Associations and Islamic Activism in Tunisia / Ester Sigillò

Conclusion: Thinking through Missionary Work. Moral Geographies, Regeneration from the Margins, Sincerity, and the Gift Economy / Emir Mahieddin

Epilogue Decolonising Missions and Preaching: the Implicated Self and the Reframing of the Missionary Phenomenon / Michael Marten

Index / Norig Neveu.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-44963-9

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004449633 DOI