European evangelicals in Egypt (1900-1956) : cultural entanglements and missionary spaces / by Samir Boulos

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Dissertation, Universität Zürich 2012

Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Acknowledgments -- ‎Notes on Transliteration and Transcription -- ‎Transliteration -- ‎Transcription of Interviews -- ‎List of Abbreviations -- ‎List of Illustrations -- ‎Introduction -- ‎Missionary Spaces and Cultural Entanglements -- ‎Reflections on Methods -- ‎Sources and State of Research -- ‎Religion, Education, and Health -- ‎Chapter 1. Historical Context: Egypt and the Christian Mission -- ‎Framework of Missionary Activities in Egypt -- ‎Egyptian Government, Imperialism, and Christian Mission -- ‎Chapter 2. Missionaries' Self-Understanding -- ‎European Evangelicals and Their Missions in Egypt -- ‎Educational Ideals in Missionary Schools -- ‎Objects and Strategies in Medical Mission -- ‎Chapter 3. Missionary Educational Work -- ‎The English Mission College in Cairo -- ‎The Bethel Girls' School in Suez -- ‎Chapter 4. Health and Christian Mission -- ‎The Medical Work of the Sudan-Pionier Mission -- ‎Notes on the Corpus of Sources -- ‎Health and Morality: Discourses on Cleanliness, Hygiene, and Superstition -- ‎Chapter 5. Traces of Missionary Work -- ‎Traces of the Educational Work -- ‎Medical Mission and Its Consequences -- ‎Conclusion -- ‎Personal Experiences and Cultural Entanglements -- ‎Institutions and Individual Agency -- ‎Mission and Society -- ‎Bibliography -- ‎Primary Sources -- ‎Secondary Sources -- ‎Index.

In European Evangelicals in Egypt (1900-1956) Samir Boulos investigates cultural exchange processes between European missionaries and Egyptian society in the first half of the twentieth century.