Protestant missionaries in the Levant
Subtitle: ungodly Puritans, 1820-1860
By: Samir Khalaf
Series: Routledge studies in Middle Eastern history
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780415505444; 9780203104439
Subjects: Protestant churches; Missions; American Missions; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: On Calvinism, Evangelism and Puritanism; title: Evangelical imagination: New England Puritans and foreign missions; title: Universities as nurseries of piety; title: World as an enlarged New England; title: Images of Islam and the Orient; title: Leavening the Levant; title: Protestant orientalism: evangelical Christianity and cultural imperialism; title: Levant as a missionary field; title: Puritans in Lebanon: early encounters, 1820-1840; title: On doing much with little noise; title: Christianize or civilize: obstacles and changing strategies, 1840-1860.