Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Prelude: A Song of Assyria ix
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Introduction: Religious Reform, Nationalism, and Christian Mission 1
6. 1. The Church of the East before the Modern Missionary Encounter: Historicizing Religion before “Religion” 37
7. 2. A Residence of Eight Years in Persia (1843): Mr. Perkins of West Springfield, Massachusetts, meets Mar Yokhannan of Gawilan, Persia 71
8. 3. Printing the Living Word: Moral Reform and the Awakening of Nation and Self (1841– 70) 102
9. 4. Being Together in the Living Word: The Mission and Evangelical Sociality (1834– 70) 137
10. 5. Death, the Maiden, and Dreams of Revival 181
11. 6. National Contestation and Evangelical Consciousness: The Journals of Native Assistants 223
12. 7. Continuity and Change in the Late Nineteenth Century: New Institutions, Missionary Competition, and the First Generation of Nationalists 257
13. 8. Retrieving the Ruins of Nineveh: Language Reform, Orientalizing Autoethnography, and the Demand for National Literature 299
14. Epilogue: Mirza David George Malik (1861– 1931) and the Engaged Ambivalence of Poetry in Exile 339
15. Notes 359
16. Bibliography 399
17. Index 419