Nouvel ouvrage – Christian Missions and Humanitarianism in The Middle East, 1850-1950

Series: Leiden Studies in Islam and Society, Volume: 11

Rédacteurs en chef : Inger Marie Okkenhaug and Karène Sanchez Summerer

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. Contributions focus on ideologies, rhetoric, and practices of missionaries and their apostolates towards humanitarianism, from the mid-19th century Middle East crises, examining different missionaries, their society’s worldview and their networks in various areas of the Middle East. In the early 20th century Christian missions increasingly paid more attention to organisation and bureaucratisation (‘rationalisation’), and media became more important to their work. The volume analyses how non-missionaries took over, to a certain extent, the aims and organisations of the missionaries as to humanitarianism. It seeks to discover and retrace such ‘entangled histories’ for the first time in an integral perspective. 

Table of contents

Introduction
Inger Marie Okkenhaug and Karène Sanchez-Summerer

Part 1 Prologue

Missions, Charity and Humanitarian Action in the Levant (19th–20th Century)
Chantal Verdeil

Part 2 Advocacy

Liberated Bodies and Saved Souls: Freed African Slave Girls and Missionaries in Egypt
Beth Baron

Physical Expressions of Winning Hearts and Minds: Body Politics of the American Missionaries in “Asiatic Turkey”
Nazan Maksudyan

Spiritual Reformation and Engagement with the World: Scandinavian Mission, Humanitarianism and Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, 1905–1914
Inger Marie Okkenhaug

‘A Strange Survival’: The Rev. W.A. Wigram on the Assyrians before and after World War I
Heleen Murre-van den Berg

Part 3 Best Practices

Missionary Hubris in Colonial Algeria? Founding and Governing Christian Arab Villages 1868–1930
Bertrand Taithe

Missionary Work, Secularization and Donor Dependency: Rockefeller-Near East Colleges Cooperation after World War I(1920–1939)
Philippe Bourmaud

“Machine Age Humanitarianism”: American Humanitarianism in Early 20th Century Syria and Lebanon
Idir Ouahes

Scottish Presbyterian Churches and Humanitarianism in the Interwar Middle East
Michael Marten

Part 4 Epilogue: Impact of the 1948 Crisis

10 Confined by Conflict, Run by Relief: Arabs, Jews, and the Finnish Mission in Jerusalem, 1940–1950
Seija Jalagin

11 Catholic Humanitarian Assistance for Palestinian Refugees: The Franciscan Casa Nova of Jerusalem in the 1948 Storm
Maria Chiara Rioli

Index


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