American missionaries, Armenian community, and the making of Protestantism in the Ottoman Empire, 1820--1860
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Title
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American missionaries, Armenian community, and the making of Protestantism in the Ottoman Empire, 1820--1860
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Identifier
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d_2009_2013:e39c6ba87c9b:10393
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identifier
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10527
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Creator
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Yetkiner, Cemal,
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Contributor
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Beth Baron
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Date
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2010
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Middle Eastern history | 19th Century-Ottoman Empire | American Missionaries | Armenians
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Abstract
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This dissertation explores how missionaries of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) started their journey to the East hoping to reach Jerusalem to "save" souls and "convert" Jews and Muslims in the Bible lands (1819), ultimately landed in Istanbul (1831), and partitioned the Armenian Church in the Ottoman Empire into two (1846). The study focuses upon American Protestant missionaries and examines their complex relations with the indigenous population of the region, especially the Armenians. Missionary relations with the "heathens" (as missionaries often referred to the locals) led to the formation of the "Protestant millet" in the Ottoman Empire.;This study argues that American missionaries had contradictory impact on the Armenian community in the Ottoman Empire. On the one hand, they introduced missionary services, most importantly education, to the Armenian community in the Ottoman capital and across Asia Minor, preparing Armenians for the financial and spiritual challenges of the nineteenth century. On the other hand, they divided the same community, transforming and creating new factions.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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2009_2013.csv
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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History
