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Christian Homeland: Episcopalians and the Middle East, 1820-1958

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Christian Homeland focuses on the involvement of clergy and prominent laity of the Episcopal Church in Middle Eastern affairs, both religious and political, between the Greek War of Independence (1821-1829) and the Second Arab-Israeli War (1956-1957), with a brief epilogue covering additional events up to the present day. As the birthplace of the Christian faith, the Middle East had always been an area of fascination to church people in the West, and with the expansion of American diplomatic and commercial interests into the Mediterranean in the early nineteenth century, Episcopalians and other American Protestants felt called to similarly export their religious values into the region. Beginning in the 1830s, Episcopalians established mission posts in Athens and Constantinople (Istanbul), from which they sought to convert Muslims and Jews to Christianity. Having failed to achieve any appreciable evangelistic success with non-Christians, they soon turned their attention to reforming the ancient churches of the East instead. Later assisted by the Church of England's missionary bishopric in Jerusalem, a small, but influential corps of Episcopalians dedicated themselves to keeping church members informed about the Middle East, particularly the status of the region's Christian population, well into the twentieth century. This book analyses how the theological ideas held by Episcopal church leaders not only guided missionary and religious activities, but also influenced their denomination's response to major social and political questions of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries issues such as immigration into the United States, genocide, wartime refugee relief, anti-Semitism, Zionism, and the Palestinian Nakba.
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  1. ISBN-10
    0197665039
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0197665039
  3. Publisher
    Oxford University Press
  4. Publication date
    December 9, 2022
  5. Language
    English
  6. Dimensions
    9.32 x 1.06 x 6.4 inches
  7. Print length
    304 pages
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"In Christian Homeland, Gardiner Shattuck directs our attention to the Episcopal Church's engagement with the Middle East in the 19th and 20th centuries... While there have been recent moments in this activism when rhetoric has been antisemitic in nature, Shattuck reminds us that this is not an anomaly." -- Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski, Kraft Family Professor and director of the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College., Living Church

"Christian Homeland is an excellent book that covers some troubling material. It will interest historians of the United States and its foreign relations, Middle Eastern and Middle Eastern American Christian communities, and American anti-Semitism. Subtle, honest, and raw, Shattuck's study should prompt Episcopalians to engage in some serious soul-searching about their church history." -- Heather J. Sharkey, University of Pennsylvania

"Christian Homeland is an excellent book that covers some troubling material. It will interest historians of the United States and its foreign relations, Middle Eastern and Middle Eastern American Christian communities, and American anti-Semitism." -- Heather J. Sharkey, Church History

About the Author

Gardiner H. Shattuck, Jr. is a retired Episcopal priest and historian who has written extensively about the involvement of American Protestants in political and social issues during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A graduate of Brown University (A.B.), General Theological Seminary (M.Div.), and Harvard University (A.M., Ph.D.), he is the author of numerous books, most recently The Episcopalians (2004). He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church and the Steering Committee of the African American Episcopal Historical Collection at Virginia Theological Seminary.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press (December 9, 2022)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0197665039
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0197665039
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.21 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.32 x 1.06 x 6.4 inches

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