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Altruism and imperialism : Western cultural and religious missions in the Middle East / edited by Eleanor H. Tejirian & Reeva Spector Simon.
- Title
- Altruism and imperialism : Western cultural and religious missions in the Middle East / edited by Eleanor H. Tejirian & Reeva Spector Simon.
- Publication
- New York, N.Y. : Middle East Institute, Columbia University, c2002.
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- Description
- x, 316 p.; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Occasional papers / Middle East Institute, Columbia University ; 4
- Uniform Title
- Occasional papers (Columbia University. Middle East Institute) ; 4.
- Subject
- Missions > Middle East > Congresses
- Christianity and culture > Middle East > Congresses
- Middle East > Civilization > Western influences > Congresses
- Middle East > Relations > Europe > Congresses
- Europe > Relations > Middle East > Congresses
- Middle East > Relations > United States
- United States > Relations > Middle East
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings
- Note
- Papers presented at a conference held at the Rockefeller Foundation Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy, in August 2000. This project on "Altruism and imperialism" was initiated by the Middle East Institute of Columbia University.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction / Eleanor H. Tejirian and Reeva Spector Simon -- The missionary enterprise in the nineteenth century : an overview / Andrew Porter -- On doing much with little noise : early encounters of Protestant missionaries in Lebanon / Samir Khalaf -- The case of the curse : the London Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews, and the Jews of Baghdad / Reeva Spector Simon -- Neither conspiracy nor hypocrisy : the Jesuits and the French Mandate in Syria and Lebanon / Elizabeth Thompson -- Masking the mission : cultural conversion at the American College for Girls / Carolyn Goffman -- Some remarks on Alevi responses to the missionaries in Eastern Anatolia (19th-20th centuries) / Hans-Lukas Kieser -- Trouble wherever they went : American missionaries in Anatolia and Ottoman Syria in the 19th century / Jeremy Salt -- An 'extra legible illustration of the Christian faith' : medicine, medical ethics, and missionaries in the Arabian Gulf / Eleanor Doumato -- Missions and architecture : colonial and post-colonial views : the case of Palestine / Ruth Kark -- Modernity's mission : evangelical efforts to discipline the nineteenth century Coptic community / Paul Sedra -- Onward Christian soldiers : Presbyterian missionaries and the ambiguous origins of American relations with Iran / Michael Zirinsky -- Syrian Muslim attitudes toward foreign missionaries in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Mahmoud Haddad -- Overlapping modernities : from Christian missionary to Muslim reform schooling in Egypt / Linda Herrera -- Faith of our fathers : Near East relief and the Near East Foundation : from mission to NGO / Eleanor H. Tejirian.
- ISBN
- 097212313X (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 51463781
- SCSB-12239143
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library