Heleen Murre-Van Den Berg

New Faith in Ancient Lands

Western Missions in the Middle East in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume presents a range of up-to-date studies on nineteenth-century Christian missions in the Middle East. Important themes are the history of Christian geopiety and the tensions between nationalist and internationalist interests, rival missionary organisations and conversionalist and civilizational aims.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 339
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 247mm x 172mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 764g
• ISBN-13: 9789004154711
• ISBN-10: 900415471X
• Artikelnr.: 22219463

Autorenporträt

Heleen Murre-van den Berg is Associate Professor of the History of World Christianity at the Faculty of Theology at Leiden University (Netherlands). She published extensively on the history of Western missions in the Middle East, the modern history of the Syriac churches, especially of the Assyrian Church of the East and Neo-Aramaic linguistics, including From a Spoken to a Written Language, The Introduction and Development of Literary Urmia Aramaic in the Nineteenth Century (Peeters, 1999).