“Then He Stabbed Me with a Spear”: Aggressive Sacred Images and Interreligious Polemics
This paper studies Coptic communal identity in early Islamic Egypt by analyzing two hagiographical narratives from the Christian Copto-Arabic text The History of the Patriarchs of Alexandria. The narratives relate incidents of sacred images that become ‘aggressive’ when they retaliate against insult...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2022
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Method & theory in the study of religion
Year: 2022, Volume: 34, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 86-104 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Taʾrīḫ baṭārikat al-Kanīsa al-Miṣrīya
/ Egypt
/ Copts
/ Islam
/ Interfaith dialogue
/ Christian art
/ Polemics
/ Social identity
/ History 704-767
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy BJ Islam CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations CE Christian art KAD Church history 500-900; early Middle Ages KBL Near East and North Africa KCD Hagiography; saints |
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interreligious polemic
B Islamic Egypt B Sacred images B History of the patriarchs B Christian-Muslim engagement |
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