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Images as Messengers of Coptic Identity. An Example from Contemporary Egypt

open access: yesScripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1996
During the past thirty years the production of two-dimensional images designed to be used in religion has flourished in the Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt.
Ragnhild Finnestad
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The Syriac Orthodox and Coptic Orthodox Churches in Austria: Inter-Church Relations and State Recognition

open access: yesMashriq & Mahjar, 2021
This article explores the inter-church and church-state relations of the Syriac Orthodox and Coptic Orthodox Churches in Austria. The strong historic role of the Catholic Church in Austria's political landscape provides the central framework to ...
Andreas Schmoller
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Religious institutions and authoritarian states : Church-state relations in the Middle East [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The churches in the Middle East are generally perceived to be supportive of the authoritarian states in the region. The motivations for this strategy and its successes and limitations in the context of the authoritarian environment and the religious ...
McCallum, Fiona
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Vat. copt. 57: A Codicological, Literary, and Paratextual Analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
MS Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Vat. copt. 57, a collection of homi- lies attributed to John Chrysostom in Bohairic Coptic, poses a number of challenges to scholars.
Berno, Francesco   +3 more
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Contact as catalyst: The case for Coptic influence in the development of Arabic negation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This article discusses similar developments in the expression of negation in the histories of Egyptian-Coptic and Arabic and explores the evidence for these respective developments being related by language contact. Both Coptic and Arabic have undergone
Abun-Nasr   +47 more
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Elements of (Auto) Biography in the Context of Coptic Hagiography, 7 th –8 th Centuries [PDF]

open access: yesStudia Litterarum, 2018
The Coptic hagiographic series, which became widespread after the Arab conquest of Egypt, are texts united by a common hero-martyr of the Ancient Church.
Liliya R. Frangulyan
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Copts, Islamists and Jews:Gender, minorities, hybridity (and its limits) in two novellas by Bahaa Abdelmegid [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Bahaa Abdelmegid's novellas Saint Theresa and Sleeping with Strangers feature a range of intertwined relations: sexual, commercial, as neighbours, and as colleagues between Jews, Christians and Muslims in Egyptian society since 1967.
IRVING, SARAH
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The Differences in the Feast Day of St. Onnohprius the Great [PDF]

open access: yesВестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия ИИ. История, история Русской Православной Церкви, 2016
The article investigates the differences in the feast day of a famous Egyptian hermit St. Onnophrius the Great (the 4th century). In Christian traditions a few dates of St.
Voitenko Anton
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Monitoring Coptic Masonry Affected by Clay Minerals and Microorganisms at the Church of Virgin Mary, Wadi El-Natrun (Egypt)

open access: yesHeritage, 2021
This paper focuses on the role played by the clay minerals and microorganisms in the deterioration process of Coptic architecture units at the church of Virgin Mary, Wadi El-Natrun region. For this purpose building materials (mainly mortars and plasters)
Abubakr Moussa, Mahmoud Roshdy
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Semiotic analysis of contemporary Coptic Orthodox church architecture; A case study of Virgin Mary and Saint John the Baptist church in Bab El Louk, Cairo, Egypt

open access: yesAin Shams Engineering Journal, 2018
Within the quest of better understanding of architecture, interpretation of signs and symbols play an important role. An article was presented earlier to analyze an ancient Coptic Orthodox church, within the course of an ongoing PhD, studying the visual ...
Marianne Nabil Guirguis   +3 more
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