Revival and Awakening: American Evangelical Missionaries in Iran and the Origins of Assyrian Nationalism

by Adam H. Becker

Book Overview

Most 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022614531X
• ISBN13: 9780226145310
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"