Efforts of American missioners for Converting Nestorians'Religion (In Mohammad Shah and Nassereddin Shah Qajar era)
Subject Areas : Epistemological and methodological researcher of historical research
Hossein Ahmadi
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(Assistant professor of Islamic Azad university, shahreza Branch)
Keywords: America, Armenian, Uremia, Protestant, Nestorian,
Abstract :
The American protestant missioners that had entered in Iran in late ofFathali Shah Qajar reign, started their religion mission oriented toconvert Uremia inhabitants to Protestantism once learned some dialectsof north west region of Iran.Since, the Russians backed Armenians and the French boosted Catholics,the Americans missioners, at first, did not show a considerable measurein order to attract these two religious groups . Since the Nestorians didnot enjoyed of any foreign groups, the American missioners, with a hugecapital and the protection of British embassy in Tehran, started their vastteaching by Nestorians of Uremia .This paper tries, by using the records of Iran ministry of foreign affaires,to show the conversion of Nestorians religion by the Americanmissioners in Mohammad Shah period and early Nassereddin Shah Qajarreign .
