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Revival and awakening : American evangelical missionaries in Iran and the origins of Assyrian nationalism
- Title
- Revival and awakening : American evangelical missionaries in Iran and the origins of Assyrian nationalism / Adam H. Becker.
- Author
- Becker, Adam H., 1972-
- Publication
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
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Details
- Description
- 432 pages; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Assyrian Church of the East members > History > 19th century
- Syriac Christians > Iran > Religion > 19th century
- Missionaries > United States > History > 19th century
- Protestant churches > Missions > Iran > History > 19th century
- Evangelistic work > Iran > History > 19th century
- Missions to Assyrian Church of the East members > History > 19th century
- Nationalism > Religious aspects > Christianity > History > 19th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 15-2352
- ISBN
- 9780226145280 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 022614528X (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780226145310 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 022614531X (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780226145457 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2014019847
- OCLC
- 880809075
- Author
- Becker, Adam H., 1972- author.
- Title
- Revival and awakening : American evangelical missionaries in Iran and the origins of Assyrian nationalism / Adam H. Becker.
- Publisher
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 15-2352