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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| Формат: | Electronic/Print Статья |
| Язык: | Английский |
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Routledge
[1998]
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Islam and Christian-Muslim relations
Год: 1998, Том: 9, Выпуск: 3, Страницы: 307-323 |
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| Итог: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 0959-6410 |
| Второстепенные работы: | Enthalten in: Islam and Christian-Muslim relations
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/09596419808721158 |