Mark N. Swanson

Channing of Tanta

History & Biography

“Channing of Tanta helps us imagine the early twentieth-century American Protestant missionaries in Egypt as complex human beings: in their hubris and privilege, in their courage and piety, in their warm or prickly relationships with one another, and in their struggles between theological correctness and personal connection and friendship. This is a work of fiction that stands alongside and breathes life into the corresponding academic histories.”

I Am a Pilgrim, a Traveler, a Stranger

History & Biography

“In this account of the brief missionary career of Pliny Fisk, Hubers has given us an intricate analysis of the ways in which an imagination schooled in the Bible, the Enlightenment, New England Protestantism, and the lives of missionary heroes could impose and maintain an objectifying and estranging distance even from the most hospitable 'other.' This book will be a fascinating case study (and warning) for anyone interested in the possibility of fruitful inter-religious encounter.”