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
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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.