Orientalen oder Christen?

With the aid of 19 travel documentaries the author in her study analyses the impression which German theologians had of the Orient towards the end of the 19th century. Whether Moslem or Christian, a person from the East awoke in the Protestant traveller a sense of ''otherness'' whilst at the same time a sense of superiority. In the face of the ''disintegration of the Orient'' German theologians fe...