...This chapter examines the “old mission” pursued by American evangelicals in Iran during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which was driven by a literal interpretation of the New Testament's Great Commission. The mission was initially marked by church-planting efforts, starting...

...This chapter covers the Del Be Del network's adaptation to modernity through a “new mission” focused on development, a concept embraced by both American evangelicals and their Iranian counterparts. Moving beyond traditional church-planting, the Del Be Del network collaborated on literacy programs...

...This chapter reviews the Del Be Del network's mission in Tehran, shaped by the interdependent relationship between American evangelicals, US global power, and Pahlavi nation-building. This relationship is akin to musical “counterpoint,” where distinct voices contribute to the same composition while...

... Faizan Brother principal media Saida Sister principal Johnson Jake pastor Simons Sue principal American Evangelicals American Muslims schools authority boundaries essence power theory culture institutions Adam Morgan ¹ is a tall man with dark hair and a debater’s confidence. He...

... clothing gender separation complementarianism American Muslims American Evangelicals patriarchy Jenny Huang is an Asian American girl who won just about every award at Good Tree’s graduation—best at science, best at math, all around student leader, and on and on. She was friendly, unpretentious...

... Smith religion sociology of religion religious schools American Muslims American Evangelicals In almost all of the interviews I conducted at the four schools, I asked students and faculty something like, “Why do you think this school exists?” Sam was a senior at Al Haqq when we sat down...

... fieldwork, the book explores the impact of the Emerging Church movement on American Evangelicals. It combines ethnographic analysis with discussions of the movement's history, discursive contours, defining practices, cultural logics, and contentious interactions with conservative Evangelical critics...

... Yusuf Siddiqui Sheikh teacher gender sexuality Internet online religion religion and gender LGBTQ religion gender separation complementarianism American Muslims American Evangelicals In a conversation in his office at Al Amal, Brother Umar, the assistant principal, told me that his students...

... creationism religious schools American Muslims American Evangelicals Shane McNulty has bright red hair and a wry, sardonic sense of humor. He teaches New Testament and history at Good Tree and, one day in my second semester at the school, I was sitting, as usual, at his desk in the back corner of the room...

...This chapter examines masculinity and ministry during the American Revolution. Beginning in the middle of the eighteenth century, the emergence of evangelical revivalism led to a new form of manhood, one based on Christian concepts of humility, piety, and sobriety. American evangelicals counseled...

...This book explores how some American Evangelicals are consuming and enacting knowledge produced as part of the Emerging Church movement. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, it shows that Emerging Evangelicalism is organized by cultural critique, a desire for change, and grounded in the conditions...

... the various “players”—American liberal Protestants, American Evangelicals, American Jews, and Israelis—together into one historical narrative....

...This concluding chapter discusses how the Christian Right is no longer the only public voice speaking for American evangelicals. Since 2004, alternative leaders and advocacy groups have stepped out of the shadows to broaden the evangelical agenda. New voices appeal to evangelicals to consider...

...Since the founding of the United States of America, American evangelicals have espoused a political theology that sees limited government as a condition for a thriving church and accordingly tilts toward libertarian politics. This “republican theology,” however, also predicates the republic’s...

...This chapter presents the author's account of the struggle against both the entrenched racism of the old Confederacy and the social apathy that continues to grip American evangelicals in Mississippi. He describes the work of John Perkins, founder of the Voice of Calvary Ministries. He also...

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... prepares for missionary work in Iran. Courtesy of PHS. Theodore Cuyler Young, RG 360. This chapter explores how the old and new missions of American evangelicals were embodied in two educational initiatives of the Presbyterian Mission in Tehran: Community School and Iran Bethel. Community School focused...

... American evangelicals inadvertently shaped the nature of the proslavery argument. When they chose which churches to join, used the procedures set up for church discipline, rejected colonization, or built quasi-independent congregations, for example, black churchgoers spurred their white coreligionists...

...This chapter traces the growing complexity of the American relationship to Israel: from American telethon fundraisers to concerted criticism to the rise of American Evangelical support for Israel. It also details the growing complexities around the question of how to treat the Palestinian...

... memorization interpretation American Muslims American Evangelicals During my time at Good Tree, some students started calling Dr. Martin Hawthorne “Doctor Doctor” after he received his second doctorate, earning a PhD in biblical hermeneutics to accompany his first in engineering. All of the seniors took...