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Nicaea, Constantine, and Gender

open access: yesInternational Review of Mission, Volume 114, Issue 1, Page 52-61, May 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Copts in the National and Religious Discourses: A Narrative of Resistance in Shady Lewis’s Turuq al-Rab

open access: yesMashriq & Mahjar
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
doaj   +1 more source

RELIGIOUS AFTERLIVES OF A REVOLUTION

open access: yesCultural Anthropology, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 27-54, February 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Color analysis of ancient Egyptian paintings and its applications in modern digital visualization

open access: yesColor Research &Application, Volume 50, Issue 1, Page 4-24, January/February 2025.
Abstract This study aims to identify the color preferences of ancient Egyptian paintings and their cultural and historical reasons through color analysis, and consequently introduce a color collection of ancient Egyptian painting colors for color matching of modern digital images.
Qiaoling Zeng
wiley   +1 more source

Using Multispectral Imaging for Studying Two Coptic Icons from St. Demiana Church, Boulaq, Cairo, Egypt [PDF]

open access: yesالمجلة العلمیة لکلیة السیاحة والفنادق جامعة الأسکندریة
Recently, modern non-invasive digital imaging techniques for documentation and studying the painted artifacts in general and Coptic icons, in particular, enabled professional experts to study new artistic schools with discrimination of the original ...
Randa Hanna   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

“Where Now for Visible Unity?”

open access: yesThe Ecumenical Review, Volume 76, Issue 5, Page 542-553, December 2024.
Abstract This article provides a short introduction to the activities and the spirit of the World Council of Churches for the ecumenical year 2025 by paying particular attention to the commemoration and anniversary celebration of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea, which will take place in October 2025 in Egypt under the theme “Where now for ...
Martin Illert
wiley   +1 more source

A Church of the People: Coptic Church Building and Direction in Central New Jersey

open access: yes, 2023
Building off Michael Akladios’ work on early Coptic migration and the ad hoc institutionalization of the Coptic Orthodox Church in North America, this dissertation proposes that the construction and direction of Coptic churches in Middlesex County, New ...
Garis, Bishoy
core  

The Personal Before and After the Political

open access: yesThe Ecumenical Review, Volume 76, Issue 5, Page 528-541, December 2024.
Abstract The authors of this article co‐facilitated a dialogue workshop for Jewish, Christian, and Muslim communal leaders and academics in Cairo as part of the GINGKO Interfaith Fellowship Retreat in September 2024. The Interfaith Dialogue in Times of Crisis workshop guided the participants through a series of exercises, culminating in reflections on ...
Elena Dini   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Les documents copto-arabes dans les archives chrétiennes d’Éthiopie : de rares témoins de l’autorité épiscopale (XIVe-XVe s.)

open access: yesAfriques, 2017
The Orthodox Christian Church of Ethiopia was statutorily a Coptic bishopric. From the fourth century until the middle of the twentieth century, its metropolitan bishops were appointed by the Patriarchal See of Alexandria.
Anaïs Wion
doaj   +1 more source

Ethnodoxy and Immigration Attitudes in the Middle East/North Africa

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 63, Issue 4, Page 958-976, December 2024.
Abstract Migration is a prevalent social concern in the Middle East/North Africa. In addition to emigration, the countries struggle to incorporate immigrant and transiting populations. This article examines the influence of ethnodoxy—the linking of Arab and Muslim identity—on public opinion on immigrants and migration in the MENA region. Using original
Hannah M. Ridge
wiley   +1 more source

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