Vient de paraître Christian Missions and Humanitarianism in The Middle East, 1850-1950. Ideologies, Rhetoric, and Practices sous la direction de Inger Marie Okkenhaug et Karène Sanchez Summerer chez Brill

Vient de paraître Christian Missions and Humanitarianism in The Middle East, 1850-1950. Ideologies, Rhetoric, and Practices sous la direction de Inger Marie Okkenhaug et Karène Sanchez Summerer chez Brill, coll. "Leiden Studies in Islam and Society" (vol. 11), 2020, XIV-320 p. ISBN : 978-90-04-39466-7 Prix : 55 €.
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"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."

Contributors include : Beth Baron, Philippe Bourmaud, Seija Jalagin, Nazan Maksudyan, Michael Marten, Heleen (L.) Murre-van den Berg, Inger Marie Okkenhaug, Idir Ouahes, Maria Chiara Rioli, Karène Sanchez Summerer, Bertrand Taithe, and Chantal Verdeil

Karène Sanchez Summerer (Ph.Ds. Leiden 2009 and Paris EPHE 2014) is Associate Professor at Leiden University. Her research considers the interactions between European linguistic and cultural policies and the Arab communities (1860-1948) in Palestine. Recent publication : (with P. Bourmaud, eds) Missions, Powers and Arabization, Social Sciences and Missions 32, 3-4. (Brill, 2019).
Inger Marie Okkenhaug (Ph.D. University of Bergen 1999) is a Professor of History at Volda University College, Norway. Her research and publications focus on the history of missions and welfare, war, refugees and relief in the Ottoman Empire and the inter-war period in the Middle East.

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