German religious women in late Ottoman Beirut
Subtitle: competing missions
By: by Julia Hauser
Series: Studies in Christian mission -- VOLUME 45
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 391
ISBN-13: 9789004282490; 9789004290785
Subjects: Church work with children; Deaconesses; German Missions; Missions; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-380) and index.
Table of contents: title: Origins and implications of a mission; title: Long-distance empathy and denominational competition; title: Struggling with the self; title: Communicating in the language of love; title: Educating orphans; title: Catering to a diverse clientele; title: Veteran deaconesses and their ways of accommodation; title: Sowing the home field.