Embracing the divine : passion and politics in the Christian Middle East / Akram Fouad Khater.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Khater, Akram Fouad, 1960- author.

Series:

Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East.

Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

al-Ujaimi, Hindiyya, 1720-1798.

al-Ujaimi, Hindiyya.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 311 p. ) map ;

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Hndiyya al-'Ujaimi, a young eighteenth-century nun whose faith was matched by her ambition and intellect, lies at the heart of this absorbing history of Middle Eastern Christianity. At the age of twenty-six, Hindiyya left her hometown of Aleppo to establish a convent in the mountains of Lebanon. Her order and her growing public profile as a visionary and living saint met with stiff opposition from Latin missionaries and with mistrust from the Vatican. Church authorities were suspicious of feminine spirituality and independent religious authority, eventually subjecting her to two Inquisitions by the Vatican. Sentenced to spend her entire life imprisoned, Hindiyya died in 1798 in her cell, leaving a legacy that shaped the church for many years to come. Compelling in its cinematic scope-resplendent with the requisite villains and mysterious events infused with sinister and sexual tensions, tragedy, and pathos-Hindiyya's story holds within its folds a larger tale about the construction of a new Christianity in the Levant. Khater skillfully reveals what her story tells us about religious minorities in the Middle East, early modern cultural encounters between the West and the Middle East, and the relationship between gender, modernity, and religion.

Contents:

Introduction

Aleppo : the making of a visionary (1720/1746)

Mount Lebanon : a voice in the wilderness (1746/1750)

Bkerki Convent : a living saint (1750/1756)

Purgatory : angels and demons in the convent (1756/1778)

Epilogue : Hindiyya, alone and everywhere (1778/1800s).

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780815650577

0815650574

OCLC:

770376283