Emotion, Mission, Architecture: Building Hospitals in Persia and British India, 1865-1914

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Sara Ebrahimi

Emotion, Mission, Architecture

Building Hospitals in Persia and British India, 1865-1914

Sara Ebrahimi

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Edinburgh University Press
11 March 2025

Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial; Christian mission & evangelism; History of medicine

Missionary medicine flourished during the period of high European imperialism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was considered the best and surest method to overcome the distrust of and gain access to the indigenous population in the so-called Muslim World. Through studying the medical activities and infrastructures of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) in Persia and north-western British India, and building upon existing works on missionaries in the Middle East and British India, this book examines the practice of obtaining trust.

A synthesis of Christian mission history, architectural history, emotions history and history of medicine and empire, Emotion, Mission, Architecture raises broader historical questions about the process of mobilising and regulating emotions in the Christian missionary contexts

contributing in turn to discussions on hybridity, missionary and local encounters, women's agency and the interactions between mission and empire.

By: Sara Ebrahimi
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781474486583
ISBN 10: 1474486584
Pages: 258
Publication Date: 11 March 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sara Honarmand Ebrahimi is a Humboldt Research Fellow at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main.

Reviews for Emotion, Mission, Architecture: Building Hospitals in Persia and British India, 1865-1914

Emotion, Mission, Architecture represents an inspired addition to the histories of emotion and architecture. [...] In inviting us to [...] think more deeply about the ways in which current and future emotion history methodologies interact with one another in general, Emotion, Mission, Architecture makes its biggest contribution to the history of emotions. --Catherine-Rose Hailstone, Durham University ""Emotions: History, Culture, Society 7 (2023)"" A subtly argued and innovative book. Honarmand Ebrahimi brings scholarly attention for the first time to a significant medical building programme in Iran and India. Working across missionary studies, history of emotions, medical humanities and architectural history, she interprets what might seem to be merely practical buildings as richly complex artefacts. --Leslie Topp, Birkbeck, University of London