RT Article
T1 The impact of early missionary enterprises on landscape and identity formation in Palestine, 1820-1914
JF Islam and Christian-Muslim relations
VO 15
IS 2
SP 209
OP 235
A1 Kark, Ruth
LA English
PB Routledge
YR 2004
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/59708887X
AB Most studies relating to missionary activity in various parts of the globe have dealt with missions both as agents of penetration of the colonial powers and as conveyers of Christian concepts of cultural and religious supremacy expressed as ‘redemption of the heathen world’. This paper argues that it is informative to emphasize a new dimension in the study of missions—that of the relationship between belief systems and place. It considers the modes of operation and the physical and ideological impact of British, American, German, Russian and French missionary societies on Palestine and its indigenous population (Muslim and Christian Arabs, and Jews) in the last century of Ottoman rule (1800–1918). The contribution of Western missionary activity to the colonized societies in which they operated has been depicted by recent revisionist historians to have been marginal and largely negative. However, studies of the missionary enterprise in recent years, including the work presented here, suggest that these presumptions are not well grounded.
K1 Mission/Weltmission
K1 Kolonialismus
K1 Palästina
K1 Jahrhundert, 19
K1 mission/world mission
K1 Colonialism
K1 Palestine
K1 century, 19th
DO 10.1080/0959641042000192800