Ümit, Akca (2016) Protestan Misyonerler ve milli devletlerin dogusu: Robert Kolej ve Bulgar milli devleti örnegi [Protestant missioners and the emergence of nation states: the case of the Robert College an the Bulgarian nation state]. Sosyoloji Konferansları [Journal of Economy Culture and Society], 53 (1). pp. 275-301. ISSN 2645-8772
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Missionary activity as spreading religion can be expressed as an attempt to move the perception of Christianity (Kingdom of God) to the world that had not adopted it yet. However, missionary works have also some other aspects that can be seen as a culture, an ideology, or even as a political tool. Mission work is not a new phenomenon, but is a new mean to extending the form of the modern nation-state to traditional societies. The Protestant Evangelical missionary, in the emergence of nation states, since the 19th century, has been a quite moderate tool in the separation of the Church from national identities in Balkan societies. Organized by the clergy of the Protestant-Evangelical missionary conducted through educational institutions and communities to target not only the Balkans; but also exceptions, such as India’s pursuit of a “nation” Catholics living under the system (sometimes Orthodox) seems directed to the Christian and Muslim communities. The 19th century, during wihch Missionary activities go towards the ancient world from the new world, is also a transformation and transition period in which the consequences of the Industrial Revolution, the Enlightenment, the Renaissance and the Reformation were perceived strongly. This period is an era when empires, dynasties and multiethnic societies began to organize around new identities and new political structures while the values of the new world (American) had begun to spread to the old world (Europe and Asia). In this paper, within the framework expressed in the upper line, the role of the educational missionary activities around Robert College in the 19th century and Robert College itself, a high school founded by the Evangelist Protestant Missionary in Istanbul which is the center of the multicultural and multireligious Ottoman society, in the establishment of the Bulgarian national identity and national state will be analyzed.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Missionaries, Evangelism, Robert College, Bulgaria, the Ottoman, the Nation-State |
| Subjects: | A Church/mission history C Types of Christian Ministry > Missionaries C Types of Christian Ministry > Missionary formation and theological education |
| Divisions: | Balkan countries > Bulgaria |
| Depositing User: | Katharina Penner |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Aug 2024 05:54 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Aug 2024 05:54 |
| URI: | https://ceeamsprints.osims.org/id/eprint/3015 |
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