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Item Open Access American women's foreign mission movement : "cooperation of eve with the redeemer" in evangelical missions(Bilkent University, 2006) Tokay, MelikeThis thesis aims to depict American women’s “indispensable” participation in the United States’ foreign mission movement. The emphasis in this thesis is on missionary wives and single missionary women both in mission fields and in the missionary societies controlled in the United States. The concept of separate spheres of male and female influence forms the center point of this thesis and the participation of women in the foreign mission movement is discussed from this perspective. It was the divine sanction, the religious service that stimulated American women to enter the mission work in the 19th century. Although the starting point did not embrace a feminist frame, the process of implementation did lead American women into public roles independent of male influence. In the name of this accomplishment, this thesis aims to explore what many historians have neglected to analyze. American missionary women, in the United States or in the foreign mission lands, created a new professional career for educated women, broke the bondage of the domestic sphere, expanded the involvement of women in cultural and political interaction, and represented the American woman to the whole world.Item Restricted Ankara Uluslararası Protestan Kilisesi(Bilkent University, 2020) Kadım, Cankat Anday; Koçak, Doğa; Çelik, Enes; Kaboğlu, Melisa; Ayan, RüzgarŞu an bulunduğu binasına 1998 yılında taşınan Ankara Uluslararası Protestan Kilisesi, bu taşınmadan önceki 8 yılda birçok farklı yerde faaliyet göstermiştir. Ankara‟da bulunan yabancılar tarafından 1990 yılında Ankara‟da bir ev topluluğu olarak başlayan ve 1998 yılına kadar bir otel ve bir depo da dahil olmak üzere birkaç farklı yere taşınmak zorunda kalmıştır. 20 Eylül 1998 tarihinde Çiğdem Mahallesi‟nde bulunan kendi binalarına taşınarak Ankara‟da resmi anlamda Türk Hükümeti‟nden izin alınarak kurulan ilk kilise olmuşlardır. Topluluk, bu tarihten beri kendi binasında düzenli olarak olarak ibadete açık haldedir.Item Open Access Errand into the East : a history of evangelical American Protestant missionaries and their missions to Ottoman Istanbul during the nineteenth century(Bilkent University, 2004) Şahin, EmrahThis thesis introduces a history of evangelical American Protestant missionary experience in Ottoman Istanbul during the nineteenth century. It argues that the New England Puritan heritage from the eighteenth century determined the scope and objectives of American missionaries in the Ottoman Empire although the missionaries sometimes disagreed with the missionary plans set by the ABCFM Prudential Committee in Boston. Contrary to the expectations of the American Board, the missionaries directed their full force to teaching often more than preaching once they landed in Istanbul. They believed that the natives of Istanbul needed education, attributing their backwardness and lack of faith to iliteracy. At the turn of the twentieth century, their institutions became prototypical and the later missionaries in the Middle East modeled their missions on those missionary establishments in late nineteenth-cenury Istanbul. Overall, the thesis, with its emphasis on the continuities and changes in evangelical American missionary mindset, the successes and failures of the missionary activities in the Ottoman capital, and the American missionary experience and life with the Ottomans, revises and provides fresh insights into American religious attitudes, relations between Ottomans and Americans, and the American "Errand into the East."