History, Religion and Progress
The View of the ‘Modernity’ of the American Protestant Missionaries in Late Ottoman Syria
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10279436 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lorella Ventura (0000-0002-0639-2354, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 442-456 |
| Publication date | 2014-04-22 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Middle Eastern Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0026-3206 • E-ISSN: 1743-7881 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00263206.2014.886572 |
| OpenAlex | W2088314137 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
The Syrian Protestant College in Beirut is commonly considered very important to the transmission of western ideas in nineteenth-century Syria. What has not been sufficiently investigated until now is the nature of those ideas, which are generally defined as ‘liberal’ and ‘modern’ without further specification. This article investigates the American missionaries’ main ideas concerning history, progress and religion, or, more generally, their concept of ‘modernity’. Finally, after having identified these ideas, the article considers their possible affinity with the ideas of the German philosopher, G.W.F. Hegel
Archaeology · German · Hegelianism · Modernity · Political science · Protestantism · Sociology · African history and culture analysis · Classics · History · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies · Religious Studies
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |