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Michael Zirinsky – “American Presbyterian Missionaries and Iran: Ambiguity and Altruism; Arrogance and Amity”
Michael Zirinsky – “American Presbyterian Missionaries and Iran: Ambiguity and Altruism; Arrogance and Amity”
The talk will focus on the American Presbyterian mission, which began in the early 1830s and began to decline with the Great Depression’s retrenchment and Reza Shah’s nationalist requirements, eventually leading to the shutting of all mission schools in 1940, except for the one which they ran for their own children, which continued until the 1978-79 […]