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001 2014019847
003 DLC
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008 140520s2015 ilu b 001 0 eng c
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050 00 $aBV2628.N4$bB43 2015
082 00 $a266/.02373055$223
100 1 $aBecker, Adam H.,$d1972-$eauthor.
245 10 $aRevival and awakening :$bAmerican evangelical missionaries in Iran and the origins of Assyrian nationalism /$cAdam H. Becker.
264 1 $aChicago :$bThe University of Chicago Press,$c2015.
300 $axviii, 432 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aPrelude: 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.
650 0 $aMissions to Assyrian Church of the East members$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aProtestant churches$xMissions$zIran$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aMissionaries$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aEvangelistic work$zIran$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aSyriac Christians$zIran$xReligion$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aAssyrian Church of the East members$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aNationalism$xReligious aspects$xChristianity$xHistory$y19th century.