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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Heo, Angie (1979-....)
Titre(s) : The political lives of saints [Texte imprimé] : Christian-Muslim mediation in Egypt / Angie Heo
Publication : Oakland (Calif.) : University of California Press, copyright 2018
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xix-294 p.) : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 255-281. Index
"Since the Arab Spring in 2011 and ISIS's rise in 2014, Egypt's Copts have attracted
attention worldwide as the collateral damage of revolution and as victims of sectarian
strife. Countering the din of persecution rhetoric and Islamophobia, The Political
Lives of Saints journeys into the quieter corners of divine intercession to consider
what martyrs, miracles, and mysteries have to do with the more routine challenges
faced by Christians and Muslims living together under the modern nation-state. Drawing
on years of extensive fieldwork, Angie Heo argues for understanding popular saints
as material media that organize social relations between Christians and Muslims in
Egypt toward varying political ends. With an ethnographer's eye for traces of antiquity,
she deciphers how long-cherished imaginaries of holiness broker bonds of revolutionary
sacrifice, reconfigure national sites of sacred territory, and pose sectarian threats
to security and order. A study of tradition and nationhood at their limits, The Political
Lives of Saints shows that Coptic Orthodoxy is a core domain of minoritarian regulation
and authoritarian rule, powerfully reversing the recurrent thesis of its impending
extinction in the Arab Muslim world"--Provided by publisher
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : Christian-Muslim mediation in Egypt
Sujet(s) : Églises coptes -- Égypte -- 2000-....
Christianisme -- Relations -- Islam -- Égypte -- 2000-....
Islam -- Relations -- Christianisme -- Égypte -- 2000-....
Saints coptes -- Égypte
Indice(s) Dewey :
281.72 (23e éd.) = Église copte
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780520297975. - ISBN 0520297970. - ISBN 9780520297982 (br.). - ISBN 0520297989.
- ISBN 9780520970120 (erroné) (ebook)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45590802s
Notice n° :
FRBNF45590802
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Table des matières : Remembering martyrs ; Redemption at the edge ; Territorial presence ; Crossovers
and conversions ; Public order ; Hidden faces.
