Beginning in the mid-seventeenth century, colonial projects in southern New England sponsored dozens of communities commonly called “praying towns.” Missionaries and colonial authorities envisioned these as bounded settlements where Indigenous people would learn to adopt Christi…
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9/11 and the wars which followed have called historians of both the United States and the Middle East to seek the origins of America’s relationship with the Islamic world. The prevailing historiographic consensus presents America’s present-day policies in the Middle East as prod…
The historiography of Ottoman state actions towards migrant tribes depends more on the official documents of the government. The case of Fırka-i Islâhiye (Reform Division) in 1865 was no exception. It has been researched heavily depending on official sources and Ahmed Cevdet Efe…
Osmanlı'nın Avrupa'ya yaklaşması ve başarısız olan haçlı seferi ile rahipler ve misyonerler, ilahi kılıçla Osmanlı'ya, diğer ve Müslüman kafirlere karşı "ilahi kılıcı" kalplerine saplayarak onları yenmeye karar verdiler. İslam'a, Kuran'a ve geleneklerine karşı bir polemik eseri …
HongKar Experiences argues for the distinctiveness of the encounters of Teochew Catholic communities in Singapore. It outlines the development of the communities that eventually referred to themselves as HongKar-Nang in Singapore, spanning the period of 1820 to 1980. This disser…
My dissertation, entitled “Examining the Life of Oyabe Zen'ichirō: The New Formation of Modern Japanese Identity at the Turn of the Twentieth Century” reconstructs the life history of Oyabe Zen'ichirō (1867-1941) and examines the formation of his Japanese identity within interna…
The dissertation is a study of William E. Blackstone's contributions to the emerging evangelical fundamentalist movement in America. Though virtually unrecognized by the scholarly community, Blackstone wrote the most popular book on premillennialism during his day, and his commi…
This dissertation explores the early nineteenth century missions to the Cherokee nation, which lasted from 1801 until Cherokee Removal in 1838-39, and reveals that the almost forty-year-long encounter proved remarkably transformative for both evangelists and Indians. Missionary …
This dissertation explores specific episodes in the history of Byzantine Christian missions into foreign lands between the fourth century and the ninth century. According to tradition, this period brought about Eastern Orthodoxy's largest expansion to date as Byzantine Christian…
The dissertation examines the relief operations by private American philanthropic organizations among Ottoman Greek refugees who were forced to migrate from Turkey to Greece in the aftermath of World War I. The American humanitarian organizations, namely the American Red Cross, …
This study covers the first fifty-five years (1875-1930), of the work of the Church Missionary Society (hereafter referred to as Anglican Mission), in Asaba and its hinterland. The period under survey witnessed the foundation, growth and subsequently maturity of the Mission. Beg…
This dissertation explores the goals of Jesuit missionary activity and the organizations through which those goals were achieved by focusing on three of the first Jesuit confraternities founded in the 1540s in Rome. These confraternities administered houses for reformed prostitu…
This study attempts to explore the history of one of the largest, most prosperous and influential sees of the seventeenth century Armenian Church. Created in 1605 and centered in New Julfa, a suburb of Isfahan, the capital of Safavid Iran, for almost a century, the diocese of Ne…
The global expansion of France during the nineteenth century is one of the most significant phenomena in modern French history. It was animated by an official creed, referred to as the “mission civilisatrice ” or “mission to civilize,” that established boundaries for what the Fr…
As a segment of American society far from the cultural supports of home, missionary women present an opportunity to examine the transforming zeal of antebellum American society at a time when the United States was driven by an expansionist spirit. American women went forth to re…
The character of the Anglican church in Palestine changed considerably over the first century of its history. In 1841 King Frederick William IV of Prussia proposed a Protestant bishopric in Jerusalem to bring the Protestant churches of England and Prussia closer together and to …
This dissertation examines how the Society of Missionaries of Africa, better known as the White Fathers, sought to evangelize the Islamic peoples of North Africa during the interwar years. In addition, it considers how these Catholic missionaries reconsidered the French "mission…
The Margi ethnic group occupies the geographical region of southern Borno and northern Adamawa states of the Republic of Nigeria. This study concentrates on the Margi Udzirngu subgroup who currently resides in North Eastern Nigeria. Margi Udzirngu literally means " the Margi who…
This study examines the first encounter between Western Christianity and Korean religions at the turn of the twentieth century. Its central thesis is that North American missionaries gradually adapted Christianity to Korean culture and religions over the period of one generation…