Protestants, Gender and the Arab Renaissance in Late Ottoman Syria

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

Av Deanna Ferree Womack, Emory University_x000D_) Womack, Deanna Ferree (Assistant Professor of History of Religions and Multifaith Relations

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The Ottoman Syrians – residents of modern Syria and Lebanon – formed the first Arabic-speaking Evangelical Church in the region. This book offers a fresh narrative of the encounters of this minority Protestant community with American missionaries, Eastern churches and Muslims at the height of the Nahda, from 1860 to 1915. Drawing on rare Arabic publications, it challenges historiography that focuses on Western male actors. Instead it shows that Syrian Protestant women and men were agents of their own history who sought the salvation of Syria while adapting and challenging missionary teachings. These pioneers established a critical link between evangelical religiosity and the socio-cultural currents of the Nahda, making possible the literary and educational achievements of the American Syrian Mission and transforming Syrian society in ways that still endure today.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-12-01
Mått156 x 234 x 28 mm
Vikt646 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieAlternative Histories: Narratives from the Middle East and Mediterranean
Antal sidor424
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474436724

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Deanna Ferree Womack is Assistant Professor of History of Religions and Multifaith Relations at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology and director of the Leadership and Multifaith Program (LAMP) in Atlanta. Ordained in the Presbyterian Church (USA), Womack has lectured and published widely on the subjects of Arab Protestantism, mission history, world Christianity and Christian-Muslim relations. 'Protestants, Gender and the Arab Renaissance in Late Ottoman Syria' is her first book. Womack is co-editor, with Philip Forness, of the Edinburgh Studies in Middle Eastern Christianity series.

AcknowledgementsNotes on TranslationIllustrationsAbbreviationsIntroduction1. Evangelical Awakening: Becoming Protestant in the Arab Renaissance2. "Publishing" the Gospel, Reading the Nahda: Protestant Print Culture in Late Ottoman Syria3. A Feminist Awakening? Evangelical Women and the Arab Renaissance4. Ministers and Nahdawi Masculinity: The Beirut Church Controversy5. Syrian Women with a Mission: Preaching the Bible and Building the Protestant ChurchConclusionGlossaryAppendix A: Syrian Protestant GenealogiesAppendix B: American Missionary Families and Dates of ServiceAppendix C: Founding Members of the Evangelical Independent Church of Beirut, 1894Appendix D: Biblewomen Employed by the British Syrian Mission: 1860-1914Appendix E: Statistical Comparison: Biblewomen of the British and American MissionsAppendix F: Publications of Syrian Women at the American Mission Press, BeirutBibliographyIndex

Deanna Womack presents a brilliant study of Syrian Protestants in the Nahda, the late nineteenth-century Arabic literary awakening, while examining how printed essays, books, and sermons shaped communal and devotional life. By featuring Syrian Protestant women, in particular, as prolific writers of the nahda, Womack blazes trails in the fields of Middle Eastern gender history and World Christianity alike.