Missionaries In Persia

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In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Isfahan, the capital of the Safavid Empire, hosted Catholic missionaries of more diverse affiliations than most other cities in Asia. Attracted by the hope of converting the Shah, the missionaries acted as diplomatic agents for Catholic rulers, hosts to Protestant merchants, and healers of Armenians and Muslims. Through such niche activities they gained social acceptance locally. This book examines the activities of Discalced Carmelites and other missionaries, revealing the flexibility they demonstrated in dealing with cultural diversity, a common feature of missionary activity throughout emerging global Catholicism. While missions all over the world were central to the self-fashioning of the Counter-Reformation Church, clerics who set out to win over souls for the “true religion” turned into local actors who built reputations by defining their social roles in accordance with the expectations of their host society. Such practices fed controversies that were fought out in newly emerging public spaces. Responding to the threat this posed to its authority, the Roman Curia initiated a process of doctrinal disambiguation and centralization which culminated in the nineteenth century. Using the missions to Safavid Iran as a case study for “a global history on a small scale,” the book creates a new paradigm for the study of global Catholicism.

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Genre : History
Author : Christian Windler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release : 2024-01-25
File : 409 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780755649372


American Missionaries In Iran During The 1960s And 1970s

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This work explores the interaction of American Protestant missionaries with Iranians during the 1960s and 1970s. It focuses on the missionary activities of four American Protestant groups: Presbyterians, Assemblies of God, International Missions, and Southern Baptists. It argues that American missionaries’ predisposition toward their own culture confused their message of the gospel and added to the negative perception of Christianity among Iranians. This bias was seen primarily in the American missionaries’ desire to modernize Iran through education and healthcare, and between the missionaries’ relationship with Iranian Christians. Iranian attitudes towards missionary involvement in these areas are investigated, as is the changing American missionary strategy from a traditional method where missionaries had the final say on most matters related to American and Iranian Christian interaction, to the beginnings of an indigenous system where a partnership developed between the missionary and the Iranian Christian.

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Genre : History
Author : Philip O. Hopkins
Publisher : Springer Nature
Release : 2020-09-22
File : 288 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9783030512149


Christians In Persia

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When it was originally published this book broke new ground in presenting one continuous narrative of the history of Christians in Persia from the second century A.D to the 1970s. The material gathered here was previously only to be found in obscure books, manuscripts and foreign periodicals. Christians in Persia shows the intricate history of the period concerned; the personalities of the rulers and the ruled; the difficult task of the missionaries; their successes and failures and the consequences of their efforts. All this is related to the wider history of the country and to the expansion of Christianity in the East.

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Genre : Reference
Author : Robin Waterfield
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2011
File : 204 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780415610483


The Persian Mirror

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The Persian Mirror explores France's preoccupation with Persia in the seventeenth century. Long before Montesquieu's Persian Letters, French intellectuals, diplomats and even ordinary Parisians were fascinated by Persia and eagerly consumed travel accounts, fairy tales, and the spectacle of the Persian ambassador's visit to Paris and Versailles in 1715. Using diplomatic sources, fiction and printed and painted images, The Persian Mirror describes how the French came to see themselves in Safavid Persia. In doing so, it revises our notions of orientalism and the exotic and suggests that early modern Europeans had more nuanced responses to Asia than previously imagined.

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Genre : History
Author : Susan Mokhberi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release : 2019-10-21
File : 224 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780190884802


The Church At Home And Abroad

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Genre : Presbyterian Church
Author : Henry Addison Nelson
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Release : 1894
File : 1162 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015068247975


Reference Information Papers

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Genre : Archives
Author : National Archives (U.S.)
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Release : 1955
File : 104 Pages
ISBN-13 : COLUMBIA:CU08275173


Materials In The National Archives Relating To The Middle East

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Genre : Administrative agencies
Author : National Archives (U.S.)
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Release : 1952
File : 220 Pages
ISBN-13 : OSU:32435053889275


Materials In The National Archives Relating To The Middle East

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Genre : Archives
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Release : 1955
File : 100 Pages
ISBN-13 : PSU:000023813670


The Missionary Register

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Release : 1816
File : 564 Pages
ISBN-13 : BSB:BSB10450513


Christian Muslim Relations A Bibliographical History Volume 20 Iran Afghanistan And The Caucasus 1800 1914

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Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History 20 (CMR 20) is about relations between Muslims and Christians in Iran, Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia in the period from 1800 to 1914. It gives descriptions, assessments and bibliographical details of all known works between the faiths from this period.

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Genre : Religion
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Publisher : BRILL
Release : 2023-02-27
File : 596 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9789004526907