Copts In Context: Negotiating Identity, Tradition, And Modernity (Studies In Comparative Religion)

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 "?Amr-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

• | Author: Pieternella van Doorn-Harder, Nelly Van Doorn-Harder
• | Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 03, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 298 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1611177847
• | ISBN-13: 9781611177848