The Western Christian Presence in the Russias and Qājār Persia, C.1760-C.1870

Approx. XXXII, 1063 Pp., Index Auflage
ISBN: 978-90-04-16399-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 47, 1116 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 2313 g

Reihe: Studies in Christian Mission

Winner of The 2018 Saidi-Sirjani Book Award

In The Western Christian Presence in the Russias and Qajar Persia, c.1760–c.1870, Thomas O'Flynn vividly paints the life and times of missionary enterprises in early nineteenth-century Russia and Persia at a moment of immense change when Tsarist Russia embarked on an expansionist campaign reaching to the Caucasus. Simultaneously he charts the relationship between the new Persian dynasty of the Qajars and missionary activity on the part of European and American missionaries. This book reconstructs that world from a predominantly religious perspective. It recounts the sustaining ideals as well as the everyday struggles of the western missionaries, Protestant (Scottish, Basel and American Congregationalist) and Catholic (Jesuit and Vincentian). It looks at the reactions of diverse tribal peoples, the Tatars of the North Caucasus, the Kabardians and Circassians. Persia was the ultimate goal of these missionaries, which they eventually reached in the 1820s. Altogether this study throws light on the troubled course of history in West Asia and provides the background to politico-religious conflicts in Chechnya and Persia that persist to the present day.

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Flynn, Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Missionswissenschaft, Missionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

The Revd Dr Thomas S.R. O'Flynn OP, STLect. et Lic. (Rome), Hist. Eccles. Lic. (Rome), Ph.D. (Dubl.), D.Phil. (Oxon.), is a Catholic scholar priest in the Dominican tradition. He first went to Iran in 1970 and was resident in Tehran before and during the first phase of the Islamic revolution (1979). He has since visited the country several times. He is the author of The Irish Dominicans, 1536-1640 (Dublin 1992) and is a contributor to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and The Dictionary of Irish Biography.