| Autor: |
Gilman, Sarah E. |
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Conference Papers - American Sociological Association; 2004 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, p1-29, 30p |
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The missionary project of the nineteenth century has been subjected to intense analysis concerning the extent to which missionaries acted as imperial agents of an emergent Western hegemony. This paper accepts the notion that the missionaries were caught up in a secular imperial project even as they insisted upon the purity of their sacred mission and as such emphasizes the inherent ambivalence of the missionary project. Focusing on the American Mission to Egypt of the United Presbyterian Church, this paper explores a host of ambiguities that muddled the encounter between the missionaries and the Egyptian people. The presence in Egypt of the Coptic Church resulted in confusion and contradictions as the missionaries worked to evangelize these ?fallen? Christians in an effort to attain their dream of Muslim converts. The mission also forged an ambiguous relationship with the secular powers of the U.S. and Britain; this was only one component of the mission?s struggle to mediate the sacred and the secular. However, the missionaries maintained a very unambiguous relationship to the land. Redelivering the gospel to the Holy Land, the missionaries felt a clear responsibility to reclaim this land that had been lost to Islam. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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