Missions and Preaching

Norig Neveu is a research fellow at CNRS (IREMAM), member of the research projects Lajeh (ANR) and MAGYC (H2020), and MisSMO (EFR). Her research focuses on social dynamics around holy sites and religious politics in southern Jordan, a connected history of Christian and Muslim religious authorities in Jordan, Palestine and Irak (19th -21st c.).Karène Sanchez Summerer is Associate Professor at Leiden University (Professor of Middle Eastern studies at Groningen University from Sept. 2022), and PI of the NWO project CrossRoads (2017-2022) and MisSMO (EFR). Her research considers interactions between European linguistic and cultural policies and Arab communities (1860-1960) in the Levant, missionaries’ modalities and impact, and Arab Catholic communities in Palestine.Annalaura Turiano is a postdoctoral researcher, member of the research network EGY-Class (CNRS), MisSMO (EFR), and the coordinator of Philanthropic action and development in the Middle East: actors, practices and expertise, 20th -21st c. (IFAO). Her research interests include missionary education, trans-Mediterranean migrations, and philanthropy in the Middle East.ContributorsNecati Alkan, Federico Alpi, Gabrielle Angey, Armand Aupiais, Katia Boissevain, Naima Bouras, Philippe Bourmaud, Gaetan du Roy, Séverine Gabry-Thienpont, Maria-Chiara Giorda, Bernard Heyberger, Emir Mahieddin, Michael Marten, Norig Neveu, Maria Chiara Rioli, Karène Sanchez Summerer, Heather Sharkey, Ester Sigillò, Sébastien Tank Storper, Emanuela Trevisan Semi, Annalaura Turiano and Vincent Vilmain.

• AcknowledgementsNotes on TransliterationList of Figures and MapsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionNorig Neveu (), Karène Sanchez Summerer (), Annalaura Turiano (), Philippe Bourmaud () and Séverine Gabry-Thienpont ()Part 1 Borders, Conversions and MigrationsIntroduction: Mission and Conversion: A Long-Term PerspectiveBernard Heyberger ()1 Proselytism in ‘Jewish Worlds’?Sébastien Tank-Storper ()2 Protestant Missions in Ethiopia: From Jewish Falashas (Beta Israel) to Christian Falashas and Falas Mura, and Back: A Blurred Status (1858–1960)Emanuela Trevisan ()3 From Missionaries to Missionary Labour: Hypotheses on Evangelicalism in Contemporary IstanbulArmand Aupiais ()Part 2 Preachers, Negotiations, and InteractionsIntroduction: What Is Preaching and Who Is It for?Heather Sharkey ()4 Reshaping the Preaching Spaces in Post-Revolutionary Egypt: Ansār al-Sunna al-Muhammadiyya Women Preachers and Religious ReformNaima Bouras ()5 Being a Teacher in the Missionary Schools of the Gülen Movement in Sub-Saharan Africa: Interactions, Trajectories, and Differentiated Investments of the RoleGabrielle Angey ()6 Shifting Missions: Languages, Texts, and Experiences between Jews and Roman Catholics in Israel (1940s–1970s)Maria-Chiara Rioli ()7 Christian and Muslim Home Missions in Egypt in the Twentieth & Twenty-first Centuries: Between Preaching and Social CareGaétan du Roy ()Part 3 Missionary Strategies, between Political Power(s) and Everyday PracticesIntroduction: Mapping in, Mapping out. Strategies and Dynamic(s) of Preaching and Mission(s)Mariachiara Giorda ()8 The Late Ottoman Sunni Missionary ProjectNecati Alkan ()9 Early Protestant Missionary Activity, Heresy and Church in Ottoman Armenia (1782–1909)Federico Alpi ()10 A Jewish Mission in the ‘Orients’ (Nineteenth Century–1920)?Vincent Vilmain ()11 Reconceptualising the Political Role of daʿwa in Civil Society: Associations and Islamic Activism in TunisiaEster Sigilló ()Conclusion: Thinking through Missionary Work. Moral Geographies, Regeneration from the Margins, Sincerity, and the Gift EconomyEmir Mahieddin () and Katia Boissevain ()Epilogue: Decolonising Missions and Preaching: The Implicated Self and the Reframing of the Missionary PhenomenonMichael MartenIndex