Revival and awakening

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Prelude: a song of Assyria.- Introduction:religious reform, nationalism, and Christian mission.- The church of the East before the modern missionary encounter: historicizing.- Religion before "religion".- A residence of eight years in Persia (1843): Mr. Perkins of West Springfield, Massachusetts, meets Mar Yokhannan of Gawilan, Persia.- Printing the living word: moral reform and the awakening of nation and self (1841-70).- Being together in the living word: the mission and Evangelical sociality (1834-70).- Death, the maiden, and dreams of revival.- National contestation and evangelical consciousness: the journals of native assistants.- Continuity and change in the late nineteenth century: new institutions, missionary competition, and the first generation of nationalists.- Retrieving the ruins of Nineveh: language reform, orientalizing autoethnography and the demand for national literature.- Epilogue: Mirza David George Malik (1861-1931) and the engaged ambivalence of poetry in exile.

Includes bibliographical references (p.[399]- 418) and index.