The Political Lives of Saints : Christian-Muslim Mediation in Egypt / Angie Heo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heo, Angie, Author.

Series:

California scholarship online.

California scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coptic Church--Egypt.

Coptic Church.

Christianity--Egypt.

Christianity.

Copts--Egypt--Politics and government.

Copts.

Islam and politics--Egypt.

Islam and politics.

Coptic Christian saints--Egypt.

Coptic Christian saints.

Christianity and other religions--Islam.

Christianity and other religions.

Islam--Relations--Christianity.

Islam.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource.)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Note on Translation and Transliteration

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One. Relics

1. Remembering Martyrs

2. Redemption at the Edge

Part Two. Apparitions

3. Territorial Presence

4. Crossovers and Conversions

Part Three. Icons

5. Public Order

6. Hidden Faces

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

9780520970120

0520970128

OCLC:

1035770359