LEADER 05517nam 22007095 450 001 9910838251103321 005 20200424112023.0 010 $a0-226-14531-X 010 $a0-226-14545-X 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226145457 035 $a(CKB)3710000000354370 035 $a(EBL)1982576 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001423709 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12513687 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001423709 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11440743 035 $a(PQKB)10560798 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001040672 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1982576 035 $a(DE-B1597)524253 035 $a(OCoLC)904398362 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226145457 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000354370 100 $a20200424h20152015 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRevival and Awakening $eAmerican Evangelical Missionaries in Iran and the Origins of Assyrian Nationalism /$fAdam H. Becker 210 1$aChicago : $cUniversity of Chicago Press, $d[2015] 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (451 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-336-19021-3 311 $a0-226-14528-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPrelude: A Song of Assyria -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction: Religious Reform, Nationalism, and Christian Mission -- $t1. The Church of the East before the Modern Missionary Encounter: Historicizing Religion before "Religion" -- $t2. A Residence of Eight Years in Persia (1843): Mr. Perkins of West Springfield, Massachusetts, meets Mar Yokhannan of Gawilan, Persia -- $t3. Printing the Living Word: Moral Reform and the Awakening of Nation and Self (1841- 70) -- $t4. Being Together in the Living Word: The Mission and Evangelical Sociality (1834- 70) -- $t5. Death, the Maiden, and Dreams of Revival -- $t6. National Contestation and Evangelical Consciousness: The Journals of Native Assistants -- $t7. Continuity and Change in the Late Nineteenth Century: New Institutions, Missionary Competition, and the First Generation of Nationalists -- $t8. Retrieving the Ruins of Nineveh: Language Reform, Orientalizing Autoethnography, and the Demand for National Literature -- $tEpilogue: Mirza David George Malik (1861- 1931) and the Engaged Ambivalence of Poetry in Exile -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aMost Americans have little understanding of the relationship between religion and nationalism in the Middle East. They assume that the two are rooted fundamentally in regional history, not in the history of contact with the broader world. However, as Adam H. Becker shows in this book, Americans-through their missionaries-had a strong hand in the development of a national and modern religious identity among one of the Middle East's most intriguing (and little-known) groups: the modern Assyrians. Detailing the history of the Assyrian Christian minority and the powerful influence American missionaries had on them, he unveils the underlying connection between modern global contact and the retrieval of an ancient identity. American evangelicals arrived in Iran in the 1830s. Becker examines how these missionaries, working with the "Nestorian" Church of the East-an Aramaic-speaking Christian community in the borderlands between Qajar Iran and the Ottoman Empire-catalyzed, over the span of sixty years, a new national identity. Instructed at missionary schools in both Protestant piety and Western science, this indigenous group eventually used its newfound scriptural and archaeological knowledge to link itself to the history of the ancient Assyrians, which in time led to demands for national autonomy. Exploring the unintended results of this American attempt to reform the Orient, Becker paints a larger picture of religion, nationalism, and ethnic identity in the modern era. 606 $aMissions to Assyrian Church of the East members$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aProtestant churches$xMissions$zIran$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aMissionaries$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aEvangelistic work$zIran$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aSyriac Christians$zIran$xReligion$y19th century 606 $aAssyrian Church of the East members$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aNationalism$xReligious aspects$xChristianity$xHistory$y19th century 610 $airan, nationalism, religion, politics, middle east, missionaries, evangelism, america, revolution, nation, identity, assyrian christian, nestorian, church, qajar, aramaic, protestant, piety, faith, ottoman empire, science, history, mirza david george malik, poetry, exile, political engagement, nineveh, literature, culture, morality, reform, government, nonfiction. 615 0$aMissions to Assyrian Church of the East members$xHistory 615 0$aProtestant churches$xMissions$xHistory 615 0$aMissionaries$xHistory 615 0$aEvangelistic work$xHistory 615 0$aSyriac Christians$xReligion 615 0$aAssyrian Church of the East members$xHistory 615 0$aNationalism$xReligious aspects$xChristianity$xHistory 676 $a266/.02373055 700 $aBecker$b Adam H., $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0288117 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910838251103321 996 $aRevival and Awakening$94144477 997 $aUNINA