Philip O. Hopkins

American Missionaries in Iran during the 1960s and 1970s

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This work explores the interaction of American Protestant missionaries with Iranians during the 1960s and 1970s. It focuses on the missionary activities of four American Protestant groups: Presbyterians, Assemblies of God, International Missions, and Southern Baptists. It argues that American missionaries' predisposition toward their own culture confused their message of the gospel and added to the negative perception of Christianity among Iranians. This bias was seen primarily in the American missionaries' desire to modernize Iran through education and healthcare, and between the missionaries' relationship with Iranian Christians. Iranian at… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-3-030-51214-9
EAN: 9783030512149
Produktnummer: 34766047
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 3'276 KB

Über den Autor

Philip O Hopkins is Associate Professor of Church History at Gateway Seminary, USA, Associate Research Fellow for the Institute of Iranian Studies at the University of St Andrews, UK, and Lecturer of Christianity and Islam at the Russian-Armenian University in Yerevan, Armenia. He is part of the editorial board for Iran and the Caucasus and has PhDs in Applied Theology and Iranian History.