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Early African Christianity–A Thematic Analysis [PDF]
This article is devoted to a thematic analysis of early or ancient African Christianity and its influence on ecclesial practices and thinking in contemporary Africa.
Aidan Kwame Ahaligah
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Blumell and Wayment\u27s Christian Oxyrhynchus: Texts, documents, and sources (Book Review)
A review of Blumell, L.H., & Wayment, T.A. (Eds.). (2015). Christian Oxyrhynchus: Texts, documents, and sources. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press. 756 pp. $89.95.
Baumstarck, Joseph, Jr.
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PHOTOGRAMMETRIC STUDY OF THE QUBBET EL-HAWA COPTIC CHURCH (ASWAN, EGYPT) [PDF]
This paper presents the method applied and the results obtained in the photogrammetric study of the Qubbet el-Hawa Coptic Church. After several archaeological interventions, the ruins of this church were completely uncovered of sand.
A. T. Mozas-Calvache +3 more
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Abstract This essay, designed as a complement to opinions expressed by Rowan Williams and some speakers at the conference in his honour, explores features of early Christianity which suggest a positive evaluation of artificial intelligence. Noting that the fear of reducing humans to machines has been joined in the modern age by the fear that machines ...
Mark J. Edwards
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Shari\u27ah, Democracy, and the Modern Nation-State: Some Reflections on Islam, Popular Rule, and Pluralism [PDF]
In this article, the author examines two considerations that are critical to a full and meaningful assessment of the degree to which Islam, and Islamic law in particular, can find authentic expressions of themselves under what may reasonably be ...
Jackson, Sherman A.
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Abstract Samia Serageldin's The Cairo House (2000) and Pauline Kaldas's “The House in Old Cairo” (2006) allow a comparative analysis on place dynamics and the psycho‐spatial aspects of subjectivity and belonging. This article builds on the premise that place has an ontological implication for its occupants as it allocates a portion of space for them ...
Daniella Krisztán
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The British Museum and the Abyssinian Campaign, 1867–8
Abstract In 1867–8, the British Museum sent a staff member on the Abyssinian Campaign. Richard Holmes, an assistant in the Manuscript Department, was embedded in the military invasion and looted important and sacred objects and manuscripts from the fortress of Emperor Tewodros II at Maqdala.
ZOE CORMACK
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This essay examines the Holy Monday sermon by Boules George, a senior priest at St. Mark Church in Cairo, that was preached the day after the Palm Sunday suicide bomb attacks against St. George Coptic Orthodox Church in Tanta and St. Mark Coptic Orthodox
J. Sergius Halvorsen
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Rethinking Transnational Places as Migratory Ecotones
ABSTRACT This paper revisits the concept of ecotone to shed a different light on migratory spaces. The notion of ecotone was first applied for the study of the contact zones between ecological systems. Over the last two decades, it has been used by scholars of postcolonial literature for the analysis of spaces of cultural interactions.
Thomas Lacroix, Judith Misrahi‐Barak
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The Revival of St Menas Veneration in the Twentieth-Century Egypt
In antiquity, St Menas was highly revered throughout the Christian world and attracted large numbers of pilgrims to the pilgrimage centre of Abū Mīnā. In twentieth-century Egypt, however, this saint became a figure of limited recognition in the Coptic ...
Hiroko Miyokawa
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