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Vols. 13-62 include abridged annual reports and proceedings of the annual meetings of the American Missionary Association, 1869-1908; v. 38-62 include abridged annual reports of the Society's Executive committee, 1883/84-1907/1908.
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Page : 300 pages
File Size : 26,92 MB
Release : 1857
Category : Congregational churches
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Vols. 13-62 include abridged annual reports and proceedings of the annual meetings of the American Missionary Association, 1869-1908; v. 38-62 include abridged annual reports of the Society's Executive committee, 1883/84-1907/1908.
Author : American Missionary Association
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Page : 108 pages
File Size : 25,99 MB
Release : 1891
Category : Missions
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Author : American Missionary Association
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Page : 16 pages
File Size : 37,55 MB
Release : 1869
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Author : Ussama Makdisi
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 27,46 MB
Release : 2011-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0801457742
The complex relationship between America and the Arab world goes back further than most people realize. In Artillery of Heaven, Ussama Makdisi presents a foundational American encounter with the Arab world that occurred in the nineteenth century, shortly after the arrival of the first American Protestant missionaries in the Middle East. He tells the dramatic tale of the conversion and death of As'ad Shidyaq, the earliest Arab convert to American Protestantism. The struggle over this man's body and soul—and over how his story might be told—changed the actors and cultures on both sides. In the unfamiliar, multireligious landscape of the Middle East, American missionaries at first conflated Arabs with Native Americans and American culture with an uncompromising evangelical Christianity. In turn, their Christian and Muslim opponents in the Ottoman Empire condemned the missionaries as malevolent intruders. Yet during the ensuing confrontation within and across cultures an unanticipated spirit of toleration was born that cannot be credited to either Americans or Arabs alone. Makdisi provides a genuinely transnational narrative for this new, liberal awakening in the Middle East, and the challenges that beset it. By exploring missed opportunities for cultural understanding, by retrieving unused historical evidence, and by juxtaposing for the first time Arab perspectives and archives with American ones, this book counters a notion of an inevitable clash of civilizations and thus reshapes our view of the history of America in the Arab world.
Author : American Missionary Association
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Page : 12 pages
File Size : 10,40 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Missionaries
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Author : American Missionary Association
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Page : 58 pages
File Size : 28,36 MB
Release : 1851
Category : Congregational churches
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Author : John King Fairbank
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Page : 458 pages
File Size : 31,63 MB
Release : 1974-02-05
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ISBN : 9780674333499
For more than a century missionaries were the main contact points between the Chinese and American peoples. Here, fourteen contributors studying both sides of the missionary effort, in China and in America, present case studies that suggest conclusions and themes for research.
Author : Vaughn J. Walston
Publisher : William Carey Library
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 34,3 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780878086092
Collection of articles about the history of missions from an African-American perspective.
Author : Lewis Tappan
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Page : 58 pages
File Size : 30,78 MB
Release : 1855
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Author : American Missionary Association
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,50 MB
Release : 1886
Category : Missionaries
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