Missions and Preaching
Connected and Decompartmentalised Perspectives from the Middle East and North Africa (19th-21st Century)
Published on 8. September 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
512 pages
978-90-04-44962-6 (ISBN)
Description
Based on a connected, relational and multidisciplinary approach (history, ethnography, political science, and theology), Mission and Preaching tackles the notion of mission through the analysis of preaching activities and religious dynamics across Christianity, Islam and Judaism, in the Middle East and North Africa, from the late 19th century until today. The 13 chapters reveal points of contact, exchange, and circulation, considering the MENA region as a central observatory. The volume offers a new chronology of the missionary phenomenon and calls for further cross-cutting approaches to decompartmentalise it, arguing that these approaches constitute useful entry points to shed new light on religious dynamics and social transformations in the MENA region.
Contributors
Necati Alkan, Federico Alpi, Gabrielle Angey, Armand Aupiais, Katia Boissevain, Naima Bouras, Philippe Bourmaud, Gaetan du Roy, Severine Gabry-Thienpont, Maria-Chiara Giorda, Bernard Heyberger, Emir Mahieddin, Michael Marten, Norig Neveu, Maria Chiara Rioli, Karene Sanchez Summerer, Heather Sharkey, Ester Sigillo, Sebastien Tank Storper, Emanuela Trevisan Semi, Annalaura Turiano and Vincent Vilmain.
Contributors
Necati Alkan, Federico Alpi, Gabrielle Angey, Armand Aupiais, Katia Boissevain, Naima Bouras, Philippe Bourmaud, Gaetan du Roy, Severine Gabry-Thienpont, Maria-Chiara Giorda, Bernard Heyberger, Emir Mahieddin, Michael Marten, Norig Neveu, Maria Chiara Rioli, Karene Sanchez Summerer, Heather Sharkey, Ester Sigillo, Sebastien Tank Storper, Emanuela Trevisan Semi, Annalaura Turiano and Vincent Vilmain.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
703 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-44962-6 (9789004449626)
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Norig Neveu is a research fellow at CNRS (IREMAM), member of the research projects Lajeh (ANR) and MAGYC (H2020), and MisSMO (EFR). Her research focuses on social dynamics around holy sites and religious politics in southern Jordan, a connected history of Christian and Muslim religious authorities in Jordan, Palestine and Irak (19th -21st c.).
Karene Sanchez Summerer is Associate Professor at Leiden University (Professor of Middle Eastern studies at Groningen University from Sept. 2022), and PI of the NWO project CrossRoads (2017-2022) and MisSMO (EFR). Her research considers interactions between European linguistic and cultural policies and Arab communities (1860-1960) in the Levant, missionaries' modalities and impact, and Arab Catholic communities in Palestine.
Annalaura Turiano is a postdoctoral researcher, member of the research network EGY-Class (CNRS), MisSMO (EFR), and the coordinator of Philanthropic action and development in the Middle East: actors, practices and expertise, 20th -21st c. (IFAO). Her research interests include missionary education, trans-Mediterranean migrations, and philanthropy in the Middle East.
Contributors
Necati Alkan, Federico Alpi, Gabrielle Angey, Armand Aupiais, Katia Boissevain, Naima Bouras, Philippe Bourmaud, Gaetan du Roy, Severine Gabry-Thienpont, Maria-Chiara Giorda, Bernard Heyberger, Emir Mahieddin, Michael Marten, Norig Neveu, Maria Chiara Rioli, Karene Sanchez Summerer, Heather Sharkey, Ester Sigillo, Sebastien Tank Storper, Emanuela Trevisan Semi, Annalaura Turiano and Vincent Vilmain.
Karene Sanchez Summerer is Associate Professor at Leiden University (Professor of Middle Eastern studies at Groningen University from Sept. 2022), and PI of the NWO project CrossRoads (2017-2022) and MisSMO (EFR). Her research considers interactions between European linguistic and cultural policies and Arab communities (1860-1960) in the Levant, missionaries' modalities and impact, and Arab Catholic communities in Palestine.
Annalaura Turiano is a postdoctoral researcher, member of the research network EGY-Class (CNRS), MisSMO (EFR), and the coordinator of Philanthropic action and development in the Middle East: actors, practices and expertise, 20th -21st c. (IFAO). Her research interests include missionary education, trans-Mediterranean migrations, and philanthropy in the Middle East.
Contributors
Necati Alkan, Federico Alpi, Gabrielle Angey, Armand Aupiais, Katia Boissevain, Naima Bouras, Philippe Bourmaud, Gaetan du Roy, Severine Gabry-Thienpont, Maria-Chiara Giorda, Bernard Heyberger, Emir Mahieddin, Michael Marten, Norig Neveu, Maria Chiara Rioli, Karene Sanchez Summerer, Heather Sharkey, Ester Sigillo, Sebastien Tank Storper, Emanuela Trevisan Semi, Annalaura Turiano and Vincent Vilmain.
Content
Acknowledgements
Notes on Transliteration
List of Figures and Maps
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
?Norig Neveu (), Karene Sanchez Summerer (), Annalaura Turiano (), Philippe Bourmaud () and Severine Gabry-Thienpont ()
Part 1 Borders, Conversions and Migrations
Introduction: Mission and Conversion: A Long-Term Perspective
?Bernard Heyberger ()
1 Proselytism in 'Jewish Worlds'?
?Sebastien Tank-Storper ()
2 Protestant Missions in Ethiopia: From Jewish Falashas (Beta Israel) to Christian Falashas and Falas Mura, and Back: A Blurred Status (1858-1960)
?Emanuela Trevisan ()
3 From Missionaries to Missionary Labour: Hypotheses on Evangelicalism in Contemporary Istanbul
?Armand Aupiais ()
Part 2 Preachers, Negotiations, and Interactions
Introduction: What Is Preaching and Who Is It for?
?Heather Sharkey ()
4 Reshaping the Preaching Spaces in Post-Revolutionary Egypt: Ansar al-Sunna al-Muhammadiyya Women Preachers and Religious Reform
?Naima Bouras ()
5 Being a Teacher in the Missionary Schools of the Guelen Movement in Sub-Saharan Africa: Interactions, Trajectories, and Differentiated Investments of the Role
?Gabrielle Angey ()
6 Shifting Missions: Languages, Texts, and Experiences between Jews and Roman Catholics in Israel (1940s-1970s)
?Maria-Chiara Rioli ()
7 Christian and Muslim Home Missions in Egypt in the Twentieth & Twenty-first Centuries: Between Preaching and Social Care
?Gaetan du Roy ()
Part 3 Missionary Strategies, between Political Power(s) and Everyday Practices
Introduction: Mapping in, Mapping out. Strategies and Dynamic(s) of Preaching and Mission(s)
?Mariachiara Giorda ()
8 The Late Ottoman Sunni Missionary Project
?Necati Alkan ()
9 Early Protestant Missionary Activity, Heresy and Church in Ottoman Armenia (1782-1909)
?Federico Alpi ()
10 A Jewish Mission in the 'Orients' (Nineteenth Century-1920)?
?Vincent Vilmain ()
11 Reconceptualising the Political Role of da?wa in Civil Society: Associations and Islamic Activism in Tunisia
?Ester Sigillo ()
Conclusion: Thinking through Missionary Work. Moral Geographies, Regeneration from the Margins, Sincerity, and the Gift Economy
?Emir Mahieddin () and Katia Boissevain ()
Epilogue: Decolonising Missions and Preaching: The Implicated Self and the Reframing of the Missionary Phenomenon
?Michael Marten
Index
Notes on Transliteration
List of Figures and Maps
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
?Norig Neveu (), Karene Sanchez Summerer (), Annalaura Turiano (), Philippe Bourmaud () and Severine Gabry-Thienpont ()
Part 1 Borders, Conversions and Migrations
Introduction: Mission and Conversion: A Long-Term Perspective
?Bernard Heyberger ()
1 Proselytism in 'Jewish Worlds'?
?Sebastien Tank-Storper ()
2 Protestant Missions in Ethiopia: From Jewish Falashas (Beta Israel) to Christian Falashas and Falas Mura, and Back: A Blurred Status (1858-1960)
?Emanuela Trevisan ()
3 From Missionaries to Missionary Labour: Hypotheses on Evangelicalism in Contemporary Istanbul
?Armand Aupiais ()
Part 2 Preachers, Negotiations, and Interactions
Introduction: What Is Preaching and Who Is It for?
?Heather Sharkey ()
4 Reshaping the Preaching Spaces in Post-Revolutionary Egypt: Ansar al-Sunna al-Muhammadiyya Women Preachers and Religious Reform
?Naima Bouras ()
5 Being a Teacher in the Missionary Schools of the Guelen Movement in Sub-Saharan Africa: Interactions, Trajectories, and Differentiated Investments of the Role
?Gabrielle Angey ()
6 Shifting Missions: Languages, Texts, and Experiences between Jews and Roman Catholics in Israel (1940s-1970s)
?Maria-Chiara Rioli ()
7 Christian and Muslim Home Missions in Egypt in the Twentieth & Twenty-first Centuries: Between Preaching and Social Care
?Gaetan du Roy ()
Part 3 Missionary Strategies, between Political Power(s) and Everyday Practices
Introduction: Mapping in, Mapping out. Strategies and Dynamic(s) of Preaching and Mission(s)
?Mariachiara Giorda ()
8 The Late Ottoman Sunni Missionary Project
?Necati Alkan ()
9 Early Protestant Missionary Activity, Heresy and Church in Ottoman Armenia (1782-1909)
?Federico Alpi ()
10 A Jewish Mission in the 'Orients' (Nineteenth Century-1920)?
?Vincent Vilmain ()
11 Reconceptualising the Political Role of da?wa in Civil Society: Associations and Islamic Activism in Tunisia
?Ester Sigillo ()
Conclusion: Thinking through Missionary Work. Moral Geographies, Regeneration from the Margins, Sincerity, and the Gift Economy
?Emir Mahieddin () and Katia Boissevain ()
Epilogue: Decolonising Missions and Preaching: The Implicated Self and the Reframing of the Missionary Phenomenon
?Michael Marten
Index