TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hauser,Julia
TI  - German religious women in late Ottoman Beirut: competing missions 
T2  - Studies in Christian Mission
SN  - 9789004290785
AV  - BV2440 .H38 2015
U1  - 266/.02343056925 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Missions, German
KW  - Lebanon
KW  - Beirut
KW  - Deaconesses
KW  - Church work with children
KW  - Missions
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-380) and index; Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 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 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - In German Religious Women in Late Ottoman Beirut. Competing Missions , 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 Drawing, among other sources, on the deaconesses’ largely unpublished letters home, her study illuminates that the only way missionary organizations like the deaconesses' could succeed was by entering into negotiations with their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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004290785
ER  -