This book examines the work of protestant missionaries in the 19th century Levant, their interaction with the local population, and religious and cultural legacy.
This book examines the work of protestant missionaries in the 19th century Levant, their interaction with the local population, and religious and cultural legacy.
Samir Khalaf is Professor of Sociology at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. He has held academic appointments at Princeton, Harvard, MIT and New York University. Among his books are Lebanon Adrift, Sexuality in the Arab World (with John Gagnon), The Heart of Beirut, Civil and Uncivil Violence in Lebanon, Cultural Resistance, and Lebanon's Predicament . He has been a recipient of several international fellowships and research awards, a trustee of numerous foundations and serves on the editorial boards of a score of international journals and publications.
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Part 1: On Calvinism, Evangelism and Puritanism 1. The Evangelical Imagination: New England Puritans and Foreign Missions 2. Universities as Nurseries of Piety 3. The World as an Enlarged New England 4. Images of Islam and the Orient Part 2: Leavening the Levant 5. Protestant Orientalism: Evangelical Christianity and Cultural Imperialism 6. The Levant as a Missionary Field 7. Puritans in Lebanon: Early Encounters 1830-1840 8. On Doing Much with Little Noise 9. Christianize or Civilize: Obstacles and Changing Strategies 1840-1860
Part 1: On Calvinism, Evangelism and Puritanism 1. The Evangelical Imagination: New England Puritans and Foreign Missions 2. Universities as Nurseries of Piety 3. The World as an Enlarged New England 4. Images of Islam and the Orient Part 2: Leavening the Levant 5. Protestant Orientalism: Evangelical Christianity and Cultural Imperialism 6. The Levant as a Missionary Field 7. Puritans in Lebanon: Early Encounters 1830-1840 8. On Doing Much with Little Noise 9. Christianize or Civilize: Obstacles and Changing Strategies 1840-1860
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