Between Desert and City: The Coptic Orthodox Church Today - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1620320800 ISBN 13: 9781620320808

Publisher: Wipf & Stock Pub, 2012

Synopsis

The Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt represents the largest Christian community in the Middle East today, but few works have appeared that discuss the situation of the contemporary Church. The Coptic Church has preserved ancient Christian traditions in a unique way. Not only has it survived centuries of living in a predominantly Muslim environment, but it has also managed to renew itself continuously during its long history. This book covers, for the first time, the most important aspects of the contemporary Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt and in the diaspora, bringing together new knowledge which would otherwise remain largely inaccessible except to a small number of specialists.

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About the Authors

Nelly van Doorn-Harder teaches Islamic Studies at Wake Forest University in Winston Salem, NC and is the author of several books including Contemporary Coptic Nuns (1995) and The Emergence of the Modern Coptic Papacy (with Magdi Guirguis, 2011), and has written various essays on the contemporary Coptic Church. Kari Vogt is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Religions and currently holds a position at the Institute of Cultural Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway. She has written widely on Christian and Islamic issues, and is one of the two authors of Women's Studies of the Christian and Islamic Traditions (1993).

Kari Vogt is Associate Professor in the Department of Cultural Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway. She has written widely on Christian and Islamic issues, and is one of the two authors of 'Women's Studies of the Christian and Islamic Traditions' (1993).

Edition details

• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Pub
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1620320800
• ISBN 13: 9781620320808
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 290
• Editor: Van Doorn-Harder Nelly