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The complex relationship between America and the Arab world goes back further than most people realize. In Artillery of Heaven, Ussama Makdisi presents a foundational American encounter with the Arab world that occurred in the nineteenth century, shortly after the arrival of the first American Protestant missionaries in the Middle East. He tells the dramatic tale of the conversion and death of As'ad Shidyaq, the earliest Arab convert to American Protestantism. The struggle over this man's body and soul-and over how his story might be told-changed the actors and cultures on both sides. In the unfamiliar, multireligious landscape of the Middle East, American missionaries at first conflated Arabs with Native Americans and American culture with an uncompromising evangelical Christianity. In turn, their Christian and Muslim opponents in the Ottoman Empire condemned the missionaries as malevolent intruders. Yet during the ensuing confrontation within and across cultures an unanticipated spirit of toleration was born that cannot be credited to either Americans or Arabs alone. Makdisi provides a genuinely transnational narrative for this new, liberal awakening in the Middle East, and the challenges that beset it.By exploring missed opportunities for cultural understanding, by retrieving unused historical evidence, and by juxtaposing for the first time Arab perspectives and archives with American ones, this book counters a notion of an inevitable clash of civilizations and thus reshapes our view of the history of America in the Arab world.
Islam --- Christianity and other religions --- Maronites --- Religious pluralism --- Missions, American --- Syriac Christians --- Pluralism (Religion) --- Pluralism --- Religion --- Religions --- American missions --- Relations --- Christianity. --- Islam. --- History --- Shidyāq, Asʻad, --- American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. --- Amerikean Pōrt Ěnkerutʻiwn --- Amerikan Misyoner Şirketi --- A.B.C.F.M. --- ABCFM --- American Board --- American Board of Foreign Missions --- Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions --- American Board of Missions --- American Mission --- United Foreign Missionary Society --- United Church Board for World Ministries --- Woman's Board of Missions --- Woman's Board of Missions for the Pacific --- Woman's Board of Missions of the Interior --- Christian church history --- History of Asia --- History of North America --- anno 1800-1899 --- Middle East --- United States --- United States of America
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One hardly known but fascinating aspect of the Cold War was the use of the holy Virgin Mary as a warrior against atheist ideologies. After the Second World War, there was a remarkable rise in the West of religiously inflected rhetoric against what was characterised as "godless communism". The leaders of the Roman Catholic Church not only urged their followers to resist socialism, but along with many prominent Catholic laity and activist movements they marshaled the support of Catholics into a spiritual holy war. In this book, experts address a variety of grassroots and Church initiatives related to Marian politics, the hausse of Marian apparitions during the Cold War period, and the present-day revival of Marian devotional culture. By identifying and analysing the militant side of Mary in the Cold War context on a global scale for the first time, this book will draw the attention of readers interested in religious history, the history of the Cold War, and twentieth-centuryinternational history.
Communism and Christianity --- Cold War --- Catholic Church. --- Religious aspects --- Mary, --- Christian special devotions --- History of civilization --- Mary [s.] --- anno 1900-1999 --- Communisme et christianisme --- Église catholique. --- Devotion to. --- Academic collection --- Protestant churches --- Missions, American --- American missions --- Protestant sects --- Christian sects --- Protestantism --- Missions --- Western Europe --- West Europe --- Koude oorlog --- Anti-communist movements --- Marie [Vierge bénie ] --- Invloed --- Culte --- Aspects politiques --- C8 --- Mariadevotie --- anticommunisme --- KADOC - Documentatie- en Onderzoekscentrum voor Religie, Cultuur en Samenleving (1977-) --- Ideologie en politiek --- Dogmatiek --- Mariologie --- Kerk & wereld --- Kerkgeschiedenis (20e eeuw) --- Catholic Church --- ʻAdhrāʼ --- Arogyamata --- Ārōkkiyamāta --- Birhen ng mga Dukha --- Blessed Lady --- Blessed Mother --- Blessed Virgin Mary, --- Hagnē Theotokos --- Madonna, The --- Majka Isusova --- Mama Mary --- Mare de Déu --- Maria, --- Mariam Astuatsatsin, --- Marie, --- Marie Théotokos --- Marii︠a︡, --- Maryam, --- Maryja, --- Meryem Ana, --- Miryam, --- Mother of God --- Muíre, --- Nossa Senhora --- Our Lady --- Our Lady of Emmitsburg --- Our Lady of Good Health --- Our Lady of Sorrows --- Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament --- Qiddīsah Maryam --- Theotokos --- Vierge Marie, --- Virgen María, --- Virgin Mary, --- Virgin of the Poor --- Ynang Maria, --- مريم --- مريم العذراء --- 성모마리아 --- Marie, sainte, personnage du Nouveau Testament --- Guerre froide --- Christianisme et politique --- Apparitions de la Vierge Marie --- Maria Deipara --- Guerre froide (1945-1991)
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