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The 21 : a journey into the land of Coptic martyrs / Martin Mosebach ; translated by Alta L. Price.
Van Pelt Library DT72.C7 M6713 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mosebach, Martin, 1951- author.
- Standardized Title:
- 21. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Mosebach, Martin, 1951-.
- Copts--Social conditions--21st century.
- Copts.
- Copts--Social conditions.
- Copts--Religious life and customs.
- Martyrs--Egypt--Biography.
- Martyrs.
- Coptic Christian saints--Egypt--Biography.
- Coptic Christian saints.
- Travel.
- Mosebach, Martin, 1951---Travel--Egypt.
- Mosebach, Martin.
- Egypt.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 238 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Other Title:
- Twenty-one
- Place of Publication:
- Walden, New York : Published by Plough Publishing House, [2019]
- Summary:
- Behind a gruesome ISIS beheading video lies the untold story of the men in orange and the faith community that formed these unlikely modern-day saints and heroes. In a carefully choreographed propaganda video released in February 2015, ISIS militants behead twenty-one orange-clad Christian men on a Libyan beach. In twenty-one symbolic chapters, each preceded by a picture, Mosebach offers a travelogue of his encounter with a foreign culture and a church that has preserved the faith and liturgy of early Christianity - the "Church of the Martyrs." As a religious minority in Muslim Egypt, the Copts find themselves caught in a clash of civilizations. This book, then, is also an account of the spiritual life of an Arab country stretched between extremism and pluralism, between a rich biblical past and the shopping centers of New Cairo.
- Contents:
- The head of Saint Kiryollos
- What I write about and what I do not write about
- The video
- A conversation about martyrdom
- The martyrs' bishop
- The martyrs' pilgrimage church
- The martyrs' village
- The martyrs' houses
- With the martyrs' families
- Saint Menas's oil
- Matthew the Copt
- Abuna Bolla and Abuna Timotheus
- The martyrs' liturgy
- The flight into Egypt
- Hierarchical style
- Pilgrimage to the cloisters
- Wonders old and new
- With the Zabbaleens of Mokattam village
- A Coptic fantasia
- New Cairo, a mirage
- The minority and the majority
- Epilogue: the invisible army of martyrs.
- Notes:
- "Originally published under the title Die 21: Eine Reise ins Land der Koptischen Martyrer. Copyright © 2018 by Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, Reinbek bei Hamburg, Germany. English translation copyright © 2018 by Alta L. Price. The translation of this work was supported by a grant from the Goethe-Institut."
- Other Format:
- Online version: Mosebach, Martin, 1951- author. 21
- ISBN:
- 9780874868395
- 0874868394
- OCLC:
- 1056202553
- Publisher Number:
- 99980149943
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