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.
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