
Название: Faithful Encounters: Authorities and American Missionaries in the Ottoman Empire
Автор: Emrah Sahin
Издательство: McGill-Queen’s University Press
Год: 2018
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 271
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Размер: 14.9 Мб
Язык: English
By the early twentieth century, there were close to two hundred American missionaries working in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. They came in droves as early as 1830, organizing hundreds of schools, hospitals, printing presses, and seminaries. Until now, the missionaries' sources and perspectives have dominated discussions of this moment in history, but the experiences of the Ottoman authorities are just as, if not more, revealing of an increasingly tense relationship between Christianity and Islam. An enthralling narrative of how locals made sense of American religious activity in the Ottoman Empire, Faithful Encounters examines the relationships between the authorities who managed the empire from the capital city of Istanbul, provincial agents who carried out the capital's orders, and the missionaries who engaged with them.