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Author:

Becker, Adam H., 1972- author.

Title:

Revival and awakening : American evangelical missionaries in Iran and the origins of Assyrian nationalism / Adam H. Becker.

Publisher:

The University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xviii, 432 pages : ilustrations ; 23 cm

Subject:

Missions to Assyrian Church of the East members--History--19th century.
Protestant churches--History--Iran--History--19th century.
Missionaries--United States--History--19th century.
Evangelistic work--Iran--History--19th century.
Syriac Christians--Iran--Religion--19th century.
Assyrian Church of the East members--History--19th century.
Nationalism--History--Christianity--History--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Prelude: a song of Assyria -- Introduction: religious reform, nationalism, and Christian mission -- The church of the East before the modern missionary encounter: historicizing -- Religion before "religion" -- A residence of eight years in Persia (1843): Mr. Perkins of West Springfield, Massachusetts, meets Mar Yokhannan of Gawilan, Persia -- Printing the living word: moral reform and the awakening of nation and self (1841-70) -- Being together in the living word: the mission and Evangelical sociality (1834-70) -- Death, the maiden, and dreams of revival -- National contestation and evangelical consciousness: the journals of native assistants -- Continuity and change in the late nineteenth century: new institutions, missionary competition, and the first generation of nationalists -- Retrieving the ruins of Nineveh: language reform, orientalizing autoethnography and the demand for national literature -- Epilogue: Mirza David George Malik (1861-1931) and the engaged ambivalence of poetry in exile.

ISBN:

022614531X
9780226145310
022614528X
9780226145280

OCLC:

(OCoLC)880809075

LCCN:

2014019847

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)