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German religious women in late Ottoman Beirut [electronic resource] : competing missions / by Julia Hauser.

By: Hauser, JuliaMaterial type: Text

TextSeries: Studies in Christian mission: 45.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]Description: 1 online resource (x, 391 p.) : illISBN: 9789004290785 (electronic book : alk. paper)Subject(s): 1800 - 1999 | Church work with children -- Lebanon -- Beirut | Deaconesses | Missions -- Lebanon -- History -- 19th century | Missions -- Lebanon -- History -- 20th century | Missions, German -- Lebanon -- Beirut | Church work with children | Deaconesses | Missions, German | Missions | Lebanon -- Beirut | LebanonGenre/Form: History.DDC classification: 266/.02343056925 LOC classification: BV2440 | .H38 2015Online resources: Click here to access online

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Origins and implications of a mission -- Long-distance empathy and denominational competition -- Struggling with the self -- Communicating in the language of love -- Educating orphans -- Catering to a diverse clientele -- Veteran deaconesses and their ways of accommodation -- Sowing the home field.

Summary: Julia Hauser offers a critical analysis of the German Protestant Kaiserswerth deaconesses' orphanage and boarding school for girls in late Ottoman Beirut as situated within the larger field of educational development in the city. Drawing, among other sources, on the deaconesses' largely unpublished letters home, her study illuminates that the only way missionary organizations like the deaconesses' could succeed was by entering into negotiations with their local environment, adapting their agenda in the process. Mission, therefore, was shaped not merely at home, but by conflictual negotiations on the periphery ? a perspective quite different from the top-down isolationist perspective of earlier research on missions.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-380) and index.

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Julia Hauser offers a critical analysis of the German Protestant Kaiserswerth deaconesses' orphanage and boarding school for girls in late Ottoman Beirut as situated within the larger field of educational development in the city. Drawing, among other sources, on the deaconesses' largely unpublished letters home, her study illuminates that the only way missionary organizations like the deaconesses' could succeed was by entering into negotiations with their local environment, adapting their agenda in the process. Mission, therefore, was shaped not merely at home, but by conflictual negotiations on the periphery ? a perspective quite different from the top-down isolationist perspective of earlier research on missions.