American evangelicals in Egypt
Subtitle: missionary encounters in an age of empire
By: Heather J. Sharkey.
Series: Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern world
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780691122618
Subjects: Presbyterian Church -- Missions -- Egypt; Americans -- Egypt -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The American missionary encounter in egypt; title: The american mission, Coptic reform, and the making of an Egyptian evangelical community, 1854-82; title: The colonial moment of the American mission, 1882-1918; title: Egyptian nationalism, religious liberty, and the rethinking of the American mission, 1918-45; title: The mission of the American University in Cairo; title: Turning to the life of the church: American mission in an age of Egyptian decolonization and Arab-Israeli politics, 1945-67; title: Conclusion: conversions and transformations.