Networks of Knowledge: Epistemic Entanglement Initiated by American Protestant Missionary Presence in Nineteenth-Century Syria

by Uta Zeuge-Buberl and Andreas Feldtkeller

American protestant missionaries, sent by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, initiated transcultural knowledge to Ottoman Syria. This book focusses on the generation of that knowledge involving local people from 1820 until the end of the nineteenth century. It includes the study of secularity, the formation of knowledge on topography and particularly biblical topography, networking between academic societies, the development...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 351511968X
• ISBN13: 9783515119689
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH
• Length: 208 Pages