"Conflict, Conquest, and Conversion" surveys two thousand years
of the Christian missionary enterprise in the Middle East within
the context of the region's political evolution. Its broad, rich
narrative follows Christian missions as they interacted with
imperial powers and as the momentum of religious change shifted
from Christianity to Islam and back, adding new dimensions to the
history of the region and the nature of the relationship between
the Middle East and the West.
Historians and political scientists increasingly recognize the
importance of integrating religion into political analysis, and
this volume, using long-neglected sources, uniquely advances this
effort. It surveys Christian missions from the earliest days of
Christianity to the present, paying particular attention to the
role of Christian missions, both Protestant and Catholic, in
shaping the political and economic imperialism of the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries. Eleanor H. Tejirian and Reeva Spector
Simon delineate the ongoing tensions between conversion and the
focus on witness and "good works" within the missionary movement,
which contributed to the development and spread of nongovernmental
organizations. Through its conscientious, systematic study, this
volume offers an unparalleled encounter with the social, political,
and economic consequences of such trends.
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