Coptic culture and community : daily lives, changing times

Weitere Verfasser: Ayad, Mariam F. , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Cairo ; New York : The American University in Cairo Press, 2024.
Umfang/Format: xvii, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN: 9781649031822
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction. Living out the faith : daily concerns and challenges. Clement of Alexandria's "new" social order : sex, food, and dress / Lois M. Farag
  • An Egyptian family and a woman's freedom : a case study from late antiquity / Alanna Nobbs, A.D. MacDonald
  • Perspectives on poverty and power. The poor, poverty, and materialism in the Instruction of Amenemope, The Book of Proverbs, and Coptic monastic texts : a socio-historical reading / Ash Melika
  • Daily life in Egypt as reflected in the writings of Shenoute of Atripe / Samuel Moawad
  • The widow's plea in Coptic personal letters / Mariam F. Ayad
  • Protecting the socially vulnerable : the case study of two bishops and a hermit in the Theban region in the late sixth and early seventh centuries / Renate Dekker
  • On identity, persecution, and resilience. Documents illustrating the Diocletianic persecution of Christians / Alanna Nobbs
  • Christian identity in the archaeological record : evidence from Egypt's Western Desert / Nicola Aravecchia
  • Laws of sartorial differentiation (ghiyar) in pre-Mamluk Egypt / Christina Thérèse (Tineke) Rooijakkers
  • Life of Severus of Antioch as an advocate of orthodoxy / Youhanna Nessim Youssef
  • Icons as social statements : the Victor Asaad Fakhoury icon series 2011-2017 / Helene Moussa
  • A living heritage : at home and abroad. Marguerite Nakhla (1908-1977) : painter of the mosaic of daily life / Helene Moussa
  • Coptic Orthodox feminism : popular song and gender reformation in the diaspora / Caroline Ramzy
  • Exploration of power distance in the early Church and the modern Coptic diaspora / Ihab Khalil.