Title Revival and awakening : American evangelical missionaries in Iran and the origins of Assyrian nationalism / Adam H. Becker

Published Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations Contents 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 Summary This volume examines how the presence of an American evangelical mission in the borderlands between Qajar Iran and the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century contributed to the development of a secular nationalism among the indigenous Neo-Aramaic speaking Christian population of the region. A particular evangelical configuration of modernity was cultivated at the mission in the antebellum period, one belonging to a visceral realm often unrecognised in characterisations of secularism and the Enlightenment Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Missions to Assyrian Church of the East members -- History -- 19th century Protestant churches -- Missions -- Iran -- History -- 19th century Missionaries -- United States -- History -- 19th century Evangelistic work -- Iran -- History -- 19th century Syriac Christians -- Iran -- Religion -- History -- 19th century Assyrian Church of the East members -- History -- 19th century Nationalism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History -- 19th century RELIGION -- Christian Ministry -- Missions. Assyrian Church of the East members Evangelistic work Missionaries Missions to Assyrian Church of the East members Nationalism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity Protestant churches -- Missions Iran United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780226145457 022614545X

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