New faith in ancient lands : Western missions in the Middle East in the nineteenth and early twentienth [i.e. twentieth] centuries / edited by Heleen Murre-van den Berg.

English, French, or German.

Proceedings of a symposium held in Jan. 2005 at the Universiteit Leiden.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-328) and index.

Spirituality and scholarship : the Holy Land in Jesuit eyes (seventeenth to nineteenth centuries) / Bernard Heyberger, Chantal Verdeil -- William McClure Thomson's The land and the book (1859) : pilgrimage and mission in Palestine / Heleen Murre-van den Berg -- Les Franciscains en Terre Sainte : de l'espace au territoire, entre opposition et adaptation / Giuseppe Buffon -- The Coptic Catholic Church, the Apostolic Vicar Maximus Giuaid (1821-1831), the Propaganda Fide and the Franciscans in early nineteenth-century Egypt / Anthony O'Mahony -- Danger and the missionary enterprise : the murder of Miss Mathilda Creasy / Nancy L. Stockdale -- Public space and private spheres : the foundation of St. Luke's Hospital of Nablus by the CMS (1891-1901) / Philippe Bourmaud -- The metamorphosis of a pietistic missionary and educational institution into a social service enterprise : the case of the Syrian Orphanage (1860-1945) / Roland Löffler -- Die deutschen Kurdenmissionen in Mahabad in ihrem Kontakt zu den orientalischen Christen / Martin Tamcke -- German "home mission" abroad : the Orientarbeit of the Deaconess Institution Kaiserswerth in the Ottoman Empire / Uwe Kaminsky -- American Protestant missionary beginnings in Beirut and istanbul : policy, politics, practice and response / Habib Badr -- "Missions in Eden" : shaping an educational and social program for the Armenians in eastern Turkey (1855-1895) / Barbara J. Merguerian -- Evangelization or education : American Protestant missionaries, the American Board, and the girls and women of Syria (1830-1910) / Ellen Fleischmann -- Muslim response to missionary activities in Egypt : with a special reference to the Al-Azhar High Corps of ʻUlamā (1925-1935) / Umar Ryad.