Not too long ago revealed by Oxford College Press, Christian Homeland focuses on the involvement of clergy and outstanding laity of the Episcopal Church in Center Japanese affairs, each spiritual and political, between the Greek Battle of Independence (1821-1829) and the Second Arab-Israeli Battle (1956-1957), with a quick epilogue overlaying further actions as much as the current day. This guide analyses how Episcopalians’ concepts concerning the significance of the Center East because the birthplace of Christianity not solely guided their missionary outreach into the area within the early 19^th century, but additionally influenced their response to main social and political questions of the late 19^th and early 20^th centuries – points and occasions resembling immigration into the USA, the Armenian genocide, refugee reduction throughout two world wars, anti-Judaism, the Holocaust, Zionism, and the Palestinian Nakba.

The creator, Gardiner H. Shattuck, Jr., is a retired Episcopal priest and historian who has revealed extensively on the involvement of American Christians in political and social points, together with the guide Episcopalians and Race: Civil Battle to Civil Rights (2000). A Rhode Island resident, he at present serves on the Board of Administrators of the Historic Society of the Episcopal Church and the Steering Committee of the African American Episcopal Historic Assortment at Virginia Theological Seminary.

Publication date: December 2022

Hardcover – 304 pages

ISBN 978-0-19-766503-9

Worth: $110.00  $77.00 (USD)

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