Christian Homeland - Shattuck Jr, Gardiner H
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Christian Homeland examines the history of the Episcopal Church's involvement in missionary work in the Middle East in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and describes how the denomination's evangelistic activities influenced the response of church members to a variety of political and social issues affecting them as Americans during that same period. This book covers topics such as immigration, the Armenian genocide, humanitarian relief for refugees after two world wars, anti-Semitism, the formation of the State of Israel, and the contemporary Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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Christian Homeland examines the history of the Episcopal Church's involvement in missionary work in the Middle East in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and describes how the denomination's evangelistic activities influenced the response of church members to a variety of political and social issues affecting them as Americans during that same period. This book covers topics such as immigration, the Armenian genocide, humanitarian relief for refugees after two world wars, anti-Semitism, the formation of the State of Israel, and the contemporary Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Autorenporträt
Gardiner H. Shattuck, Jr. is a retired Episcopal priest and historian who has written extensively about the involvement of American Protestants in political and social issues during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A graduate of Brown University (A.B.), General Theological Seminary (M.Div.), and Harvard University (A.M., Ph.D.), he is the author of numerous books, most recently The Episcopalians (2004). He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church and the Steering Committee of the African American Episcopal Historical Collection at Virginia Theological Seminary.