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Indigenous responses to protestant missionaries: educational competition and economic development in Ottoman Turkey

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dc.contributor.author Amasyali, Emre
dc.date.accessioned 2022-12-05T12:44:04Z
dc.date.available 2022-12-05T12:44:04Z
dc.date.issued 2022
dc.identifier.citation Amasyali E. Indigenous responses to protestant missionaries: educational competition and economic development in Ottoman Turkey. European Journal of Sociology. 2022 Apr;63(1):39-86. DOI: 10.1017/S0003975622000182
dc.identifier.issn 0003-9756
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/55084
dc.description.abstract In recent years, a growing literature has claimed that there is a strong and consistent association between the presence of historic missionary societies outside Europe and positive long-term socio-economic outcomes. Yet, most of these studies fail to specify whether this finding is the result of missionary investment in human capital or of local actors stepping up their educational efforts in reaction to missionary activities. This article uses the example of Protestant missionary activity in Ottoman Turkey to separate these two mechanisms. The Ottoman state and the Armenian population responded to missionary incursions by modernizing and expanding their educational efforts. However, after the foundation of the Republic and of modern Turkey, most of the missionary schools were closed and the Armenian population was dramatically reduced. Using the blockage of direct effects, this study confirms the role that indirect effects or emulation has played in Ottoman Turkey. Results show that places with historically heightened competition between missionary schools and native educational institutions are more likely to have a higher income, as measured by night-time light density.
dc.format.mimetype application/pdf
dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher Cambridge University Press
dc.rights © Cambridge University Press. The published version of the article: Amasyali E. Indigenous responses to protestant missionaries: educational competition and economic development in Ottoman Turkey. European Journal of Sociology. 2022 Apr;63(1):39-86. DOI: 10.1017/S0003975622000182 is available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/european-journal-of-sociology-archives-europeennes-de-sociologie.
dc.title Indigenous responses to protestant missionaries: educational competition and economic development in Ottoman Turkey
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0003975622000182
dc.subject.keyword Ottoman Empire
dc.subject.keyword Protestant missionaries
dc.subject.keyword Human capital
dc.subject.keyword Historical development
dc.subject.keyword Historical GIS
dc.rights.accessRights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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