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Book SynopsisShows that Americans through their missionaries had a strong hand in the development of one of the Middle East's most intriguing groups: the modern Assyrians. This book details the history of Christian minority and influence American missionaries had on them. It unveils a relationship between modern global contact and more.
Trade Review"Unraveling the complex process in which the American Protestant project of moral and religious reform helped to stimulate the development of 'Assyrian' national consciousness, Becker provides an excellent example of how secular modernity could be configured in a noncolonial missionary context in the encounter between two different Christian communities." (Talal Asad, author of Formations of the Secular)
