Author: Okkenhaug, Inger Marie & Karène Sanchez Summerer. (eds).
Title: Christian missions and humanitarianism in the Middle East, 1850-1950. Ideologies, rhetoric, and practices.
Description: Leiden & Boston, Brill, [2020]. XIV,302 pp. B./w. figs. Orig. softcover (pictorial wrappers). 8vo. (Leiden studies in Islam and society, Vol. 11). From the early phases of modern missions, Christian missionaries supported many humanitarian activities, mostly framed as subservient to the preaching of Christianity. This anthology contributes to a historically grounded understanding of the complex relationship between Christian missions and the roots of humanitarianism and its contemporary uses in a Middle Eastern context. [Provided by the publisher]. - - New price at the publisher: € 62,--

Keywords: Ethnography Asia Theology Chrisianity Mission Etnografie Azië Theologie Christendom Missie