Catholic Missionary Education in Early Mandate Syria and Lebanon

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Catholic Missionary Education in Early Mandate Syria and Lebanon "
Idir Ouahes

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1083512
Doc. No	:	LA127141
Call No	:	‭10.1163/18748945-03003005‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Idir Ouahes
Title & Author	:	Catholic Missionary Education in Early Mandate Syria and Lebanon [Article]\ Idir Ouahes
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Social Sciences and Missions
Date	:	2017
Volume/ Issue Number	:	30/3-4
Page No	:	225–253
Abstract	:	This article examines the interaction of Catholic missionary education with the French mandate state in Syria and Lebanon in the 1920s. Taking a short cross-section of the Mandate era, the article argues that Catholic missionaries’ activity in the educational sphere must be considered from a meso-level analysis to complement micro-level focus on school activity and macro-level examination of imperial relations. Such an approach begins by acknowledging the particularity of the Levantine setting, wherein Catholic activity was well embedded into the locale. It also puts into evidence the utility of Catholic educational institutions in the region for the French Mandate state’s priorities. It nevertheless considers the autonomy of these institutions; for instance, the parallel hierarchy that the French Church itself represented, with its independent priorities. Finally, the article considers the significance of inter-imperial rivalry in the Levant leading to these institutions’ empowerment by French mandate authorities.
Descriptor	:	Catholic
Descriptor	:	Catholique
Descriptor	:	Français
Descriptor	:	French
Descriptor	:	History of Religion
Descriptor	:	Lebanon
Descriptor	:	Levant
Descriptor	:	Liban
Descriptor	:	Middle East
Descriptor	:	Moyen-Orient
Descriptor	:	Near East
Descriptor	:	Proche-Orient
Descriptor	:	Religion Society
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	Social Sciences
Descriptor	:	Syria
Descriptor	:	Syrie
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/18748945-03003005‬