Revival and awakening American evangelical missionaries in Iran and the origins of Assyrian nationalism / Adam H. Becker.
| Author/creator | Becker, Adam H., 1972- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015. |
| Description | xviii, 432 pages ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Prelude: a song of Assyria -- Introduction: religious reform, nationalism, and Christian mission -- The church of the East before the modern missionary encounter: historicizing -- Religion before "religion" -- A residence of eight years in Persia (1843): Mr. Perkins of West Springfield, Massachusetts, meets Mar Yokhannan of Gawilan, Persia -- Printing the living word: moral reform and the awakening of nation and self (1841-70) -- Being together in the living word: the mission and Evangelical sociality (1834-70) -- Death, the maiden, and dreams of revival -- National contestation and evangelical consciousness: the journals of native assistants -- Continuity and change in the late nineteenth century: new institutions, missionary competition, and the first generation of nationalists -- Retrieving the ruins of Nineveh: language reform, orientalizing autoethnography and the demand for national literature -- Epilogue: Mirza David George Malik (1861-1931) and the engaged ambivalence of poetry in exile. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2014019847 |
| ISBN | 9780226145280 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 022614528X (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780226145310 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 022614531X (pbk. : alk. paper) |