Copts in Context: Negotiating Identity, Tradition, and Modernity
A comprehensive examination of this deeply traditional Christian religion as it confronts modernity.
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Columbia
University of South Carolina Press
2017
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| In: | Year: 2017 |
| Series/Journal: | Studies in Comparative Religion Ser
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Copts
/ Identity
/ Tradition
/ Religious minority
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| Further subjects: | B
Coptic Church
B Copts B Electronic books |
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| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
Print version: Denny, Frederick M: Copts in Context : Negotiating Identity, Tradition, and Modernity. - Columbia : University of South Carolina Press,c2017. - 9781611177848 |
| Summary: | A comprehensive examination of this deeply traditional Christian religion as it confronts modernity. Cover -- Copts in Context -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Series Editor's Preface -- Preface -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction: Creating and Maintaining Tradition in Modernity -- Part 1: Identity in Transition -- The Copts in the January Revolution of 2011 -- The Undesirables of Egypt: A Story of Persecution and Defiance -- Examining the Role of Media in Coptic Studies -- Father Samaan and the Charismatic Trend within the Coptic Church -- Transmitting Coptic Musical Heritage -- Part 2: Challenges of the Diaspora -- Singing Strategic Multiculturalism: The Discursive Politics of Song in Coptic-Canadian Protests -- Coptic Migrant Churches: Transnationalism and the Negotiation of Different Roles -- Strategies of Adaptation for Survival: The Introduction of Converts to the Coptic Orthodox Community in the Greater Toronto Area -- Belonging to the Church Community: From Childhood Years Onward -- Part 3: Tradition -- The Revival of the Coptic Language and the Formation of Coptic Ethnoreligious Identity in Modern Egypt -- Reading the Church's Story: The "ʿAmr-Benjamin Paradigm" and Its Echoes in The History of the Patriarchs of Alexandria -- The Evolution of Lent in Alexandria and the Alleged Reforms of Patriarch Demetrius -- The Perfect Monk: Ideals of Masculinity in the Monastery of Shenoute -- The Paradox of Monasticism: The Transformation of Ascetic Ideals from the Fourth to the Seventh Century -- Reconsidering the Emerging Monastic Desertscape -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index. |
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| ISBN: | 1611177855 |