The Social Dimension of Christian Missions in the Middle East
Historical Studies of the 19th and 20th Centuries
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The Social Dimension of Christian Missions in the Middle East
Historical Studies of the 19th and 20th Centuries
About this book
Christian missions in the Middle East were and still are a highly sensitive topic. For a number of academics, they have destroyed indigenous cultures and are nothing else than the religious wing of imperialism. A new development in historiography gives a different interpretation: Missions seem to have strongly contributed to the development of social work, healthcare, education, and science in certain regions of the world – sometimes even implementing basic social infrastructure that has been neglected by local rulers for decades or centuries. In particular, the missions in the Middle East have exhibited a strong "social dimension". Thus, one could even speak of a specific "trademark", for conversions hardly took place in the "house of Islam", and also among Jews during the 19th and 20th century.
This volumne brings together some of the essential papers of a conference dealing with questions of cultural, religious and social history in this field of research. It contributes to the historiography of Christian missions, welfare organisations as well as of Christian Churches in the Middle East. The book challenges the predominantly eurocentric depiction of the history of Christianity by juxtaposing a transnational reading of Christian activism in the Orient.
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Table of contents
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- FRAMING THE SOCIAL DIMENSION OF THE GERMAN PROTESTANT MISSION TO PALESTINE. METHODOLOGICAL AND THEORETICAL REMARKS
- THE STUDY OF WESTERN MISSIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST (1820–1920): AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE CONCEPTS OF FRENCH AND GERMAN FOREIGN CULTURAL POLICIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST. FROM THE END OF THE 19TH CENTURY UP TO 1945
- EDUCATIONAL PRINCIPLES AND ACTIVITIES IN THE SCHOOLS RUN BY BISHOP GOBAT AND THE CMS IN PALESTINE (1846–1879)
- SCHOOL- AND MISSION-CONCEPTIONS OF THE GERMAN CATHOLICS IN PALESTINE UNTIL THE FIRST WORLD WAR
- MISSIONS AND IDENTITY FORMATION AMONG THE PEOPLES OF PALESTINE: THE CASE OF THE JEWISH POPULATION
- THE CATHOLIC JERUSALEM MILIEU OF THE HABSBURG MONARCHY AND ITS CONTRIBUTION TO THE MISSION IN THE HOLY LAND
- MEDICAL TREATMENT AS A MISSIONARY INSTRUMENT AND ITS SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES. ASPECTS OF THE WORK BY THE LONDON JEWS SOCIETY IN PALESTINE UP TO 1914
- THE THEOLOGY AND PRACTICE OF SCOTTISH MEDICAL MISSIONS: THE STUDY OF MISSIONS IN PALESTINE THROUGH A POSTCOLONIAL LENS
- GERMAN MISSION-PROPAGANDA-MOVIES IN PALESTINE: HOW TO DO MISSIONARY FUNDRAISING AND MOTIVATE DONORS
- CONSIDERATIONS OF THE CORRELATIONS BETWEEN SOCIAL WELFARE, MISSIONARY ACTIVITIES AND FOREIGN POLICY: GERMAN PROTESTANT COMMUNITIES IN ISTANBUL AND IZMIR AND THE DIASPORA CARE
- ATTITUDES IN WEST GERMAN PROTESTANTISM TOWARDS THE STATE OF ISRAEL 1948–1967
- THE RECONSTRUCTION OF GERMAN PROTESTANT INSTITUTIONS AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR – THE “PALAESTINAWERK”
- INDEX
- LIST OF AUTHORS