‘Our Moslem sisters‘: Women of Greater Syria in the eyes of American protestant missionary women

From the mid-twentieth century, American Protestant missionary women played a role in attempting to reach their ‘Moslem sisters' in Greater Syria through the various missionary institutions established in the region. This article examines part of the encounter between these two groups of women...

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Autor principal: Fleischmann, Ellen 1953- (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electronic/Print Artículo
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Publicado: Routledge [1998]
En: Islam and Christian-Muslim relations
Año: 1998, Volumen: 9, Número: 3, Páginas: 307-323
Acceso en línea: Volltext (doi)
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Sumario:From the mid-twentieth century, American Protestant missionary women played a role in attempting to reach their ‘Moslem sisters' in Greater Syria through the various missionary institutions established in the region. This article examines part of the encounter between these two groups of women — particularly the murky and often ironic nature of the exchange, and how primarily single, Protestant American women focused much of their efforts on training young Arab Muslim women to be good wives and mothers. American Protestant missionary women, in assuming they were ‘uplifting' the status of Middle Eastern women, were in most respects involved in an attempt to modernize the domestic dimension of the latter's identity and imprint upon it a particular cultural stamp.
ISSN:0959-6410
Obras secundarias:Enthalten in: Islam and Christian-Muslim relations
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/09596419808721158