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Cover -- Christian Homeland -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Chronology (1820-​1958) -- Introduction -- 1. Pure and Undefiled Religion: Horatio Southgate and the Mission in Constantinople -- 2. Alive in Many a Dark Place: Saving the Christians of the East -- 3. Afflicted Peoples: Genocide, Humanitarian Relief, and Ministry to the Foreign-​Born -- 4. Remaking a Nation: Episcopalians and the Post-​Ottoman Middle East -- 5. Palestine Problem: Charles Bridgeman and the Anglican Campaign against Zionism -- 6. Emotional Typhoon: War and Crisis in the Holy Land -- 7. Extinction in the Land of Its Birth: Israeli Nationhood and the Future of Middle Eastern Christianity -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.

Christian Homeland examines the history of the Episcopal Church's involvement in missionary work in the Middle East in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and describes how the denomination's evangelistic activities influenced the response of church members to a variety of political and social issues affecting them as Americans during that same period. This book covers topics such as immigration, the Armenian genocide, humanitarian relief for refugees after two world wars, anti-Semitism, the formation of the State of Israel, and the contemporary Israeli-Palestinian conflict.