{"product_id":"protestant-missionaries-in-the-levant-samir-khalaf-9780415505444","title":"Protestant Missionaries in the Levant: Ungodly Puritans, 1820-1860","description":"\u003cp\u003eThrough focusing on the unintended by-products of New England Puritanism as a cultural transplant in the Levant, this book explores the socio-historical forces which account for the failure of early envoys' attempts to convert the 'native, ' population. Early failure in conversion led to later success in reinventing themselves as agents of secular and liberal education, welfare, and popular culture. Through making special efforts not to debase local culture, the missionaries' work resulted in large sections of society becoming protestantized without being evangelized.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn invaluable resource for postgraduates and those undertaking postdoctoral research, this book explores a seminal but overlooked interlude in the encounters between American Protestantism and the Levant. Using data from previously unexplored personal narrative accounts, Khalaf dates the emergence of the puritanical imagination, sparked by sentiments of American exceptionalism, voluntarism and \"soft power\" to at least a century before commonly assumed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Samir Khalaf\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415505445\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415505444\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/23\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 310\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d","brand":"Samir Khalaf","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44127623938303,"sku":"9780415505444","price":170.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2b7f98c3-243f-4e78-a858-e4eeaedb8344.jpg?v=1687454331","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/protestant-missionaries-in-the-levant-samir-khalaf-9780415505444","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}