TY - BOOK AU - Khalaf,Samir TI - Protestant Missionaries in the Levant: ungodly Puritans, 1820-1860 T2 - Routledge studies in Middle Eastern history SN - 9781138109704 (pbk.) AV - BV3160 .K45 2017 U1 - 266/.59095609034 23 PY - 2017/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - Missions KW - Middle East KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Protestant churches KW - Missions, American N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-281) and index; On Calvinism, Evangelism and Puritanism -- Evangelical imagination: New England Puritans and foreign missions -- Universities as nurseries of piety -- World as an enlarged New England -- Images of Islam and the Orient -- Leavening the Levant -- Protestant orientalism: evangelical Christianity and cultural imperialism -- Levant as a missionary field -- Puritans in Lebanon: early encounters, 1820-1840 -- On doing much with little noise -- Christianize or civilize: obstacles and changing strategies, 1840-1860 ER -