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• W1597753149 abstract "FROM MISSION TO MODERNITY: EVANGELICALS, REFORMERS, AND EDUCATION IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY EGYPT Paul Sedra London: I.B. Tauris, 2011 (viii + 245 pages, bibliography, index) $92.00 (cloth)Paul Sedra's rich, erudite book is a timely and welcome contribution to a recent spate of monographs on Christian missions the Middle East that represent a growing area of scholarship anglophone Middle East studies. Some of these works include books written by Hans-Lukas Kieser, Michael Marten, Ussama Makdisi, Inger Marie Okkenhaug, Heather J. Sharkey, and Nancy Stockdale. This body of scholarship is characterized for the most part by meticulous research and complex arguments that eschew the tendency toward hagiography and simplistic tropes of missionaries as bearers of modernity and progress or of imperialism-a tendency that has plagued many studies other fields (Sharkey, American Evangelicals Egypt, Princeton University Press, 2008, 14). Sharkey's book and Makdisi's Artillery of Heaven (Cornell University Press, 2007) are particularly distinguished for their readings and analyses of the voices of the missionized as well as those of the missionaries, through their mining little-used Arabic and (in Makdisi's case) Ottoman Turkish sources. They bring to the foreground different actors' agency the missionary encounters and offer complex arguments against standard assumptions about the one-sidedness of the impact. All of these works contribute to a high standard of scholarship for studies of missions the Middle East.Sedra's book certainly lives up to, and some cases, exceeds these high standards terms of the quality of the scholarship and complexity of argument. The vast amount of data that Sedra amassed and mastered to write this book is impressive. Sources include the archives of the numerous missionary societies examined the book, the voluminous papers of Joseph Hekekyan, diplomatic correspondence of the Foreign Office at the British National Archives, and a vast body of scholarship on the Coptic Church.Although missions and their role and impact on nineteenth-century Egyptian society are a critical dimension of Sedra's story, the book is actually not mission per se. Sedra does not narrate a straightforward, chronological history of any particular or group of missions, nor does he limit himself merely to discussions of missionary impacts, whether positive, negative, or both. Departing from most of the recent literature, his book focuses on that endeavor considered the major legacy of missions the Middle East: education. So while foreign missionaries are a major topic this book, they are integrated as a key component of a bigger picture.From Mission to Modernity is about the construction of knowledge and colonial Egypt by agents that include missionaries and educated elites, and the specific pedagogies and strategies these actors employed to modernize (and, the case of the missionaries, colonize) Egypt through education. Sedra's principal argument, which draws heavily upon the theories of Timothy Mitchell (in Colonising Egypt, University of California Press, 1991), Michel Foucault, and Walter Ong (in Orality and Literacy, Routledge, 2002), is that both indigenous elites and missionaries nineteenth-century Egypt manipulated modern schooling as technologies of power that would facilitate the destruction of an oral, traditional, and superstitious culture in which the speakers of words, rather than texts, were the bearers of authority (10, 2). The ensuing struggle Sedra analyzes constituted a sort of epistemological warfare, the ultimate prizes of which were power, control, and the shaping of modern Egypt (10). A key ingredient all of this was the role that education played instilling industry, order, and discipline into the minds and bodies of the Egyptian population.Sedra proceeds to make his case by providing rich analyses of how diverse individuals and institutions performed this feat. …" @default.
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