Revival and Awakening
Subtitle: American Evangelical Missionaries in Iran and the Origins of Assyrian Nationalism
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780226145310
Subjects: Protestant churches; Missionaries; Evangelistic work; Nationalism, religious aspects; Iran, religion
Description: This volume examines how the presence of an American evangelical mission in the borderlands between Qajar Iran and the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century contributed to the development of a secular nationalism among the indigenous Neo-Aramaic speaking Christian population of the region. A particular evangelical configuration of modernity was cultivated at the mission in the antebellum period, one belonging to a visceral realm often unrecognised in characterisations of secularism and the Enlightenment.