Achievements and Consequences
Achievements and Consequences
Intended and Unintended
This chapter assesses the outcomes of missionary work in the Middle East. For Protestant missionaries, improving the status of women was an important goal and in the mission field it was closely linked to education. Eastern Christians, Roman Catholics, and Muslims were all active in expanding educational resources for their members. All these schools and the work of missionaries served as vanguards of modernization and Westernization. They became exemplars of modern technologies in many areas—agriculture, printing, and medicine—and promulgators, through both formal education and example, of modern Western habits of thought. Missionary education is also credited with contributing to the emergence of local nationalisms, including Arab, Armenian, and Assyrian, as opposed to a specific religious identity or identification with the imperial power.
Keywords: missionaries, Middle East, missionary work, religious schools, secular schools, Protestants, education, nationalism
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