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ABSTRACT In recent years, Orthodox Christianity has gained increasing visibility in global discussions on social ethics, encompassing issues such as climate change, environmental protection, peace, and human rights. The following paper examines the underlying metaethical framework of the Ecumenical Patriarchate's Social Ethos Document, analyzing how it
Alexander Kriebitz, Stefanos Athanasiou
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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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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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Nicaea, Constantine, and Gender
Abstract The canons of the Council of Nicaea appear to confirm what some might consider today to be stereotypical views of gender identity. However, according to Philostorgius, a Christian church historian of Late Antiquity, Constantine's stepsister Constantia played an influential role in the decisions of some sceptical key players to sign the creed ...
Martin Illert
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The focus of scholarly studies and literary works on Egyptian Copts as a persecuted or a faith community has diverted attention from seeing them as active agents who challenge hegemonic powers within the complex overlapping of national and religious ...
Nevine Abraham
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RELIGIOUS AFTERLIVES OF A REVOLUTION
ABSTRACT When do revolutions end? How do revolutions live on in embodied affects, relationships, and horizons of aspiration? This article describes the remaking of religion among upper‐middle‐class Egyptians who participated in the 2011 uprising.
AMIRA MITTERMAIER
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