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Author Heo, Angie, 1979- author.

Title The political lives of saints : Christian-Muslim mediation in Egypt / Angie Heo.

Publication Info. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 294 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Remembering martyrs -- Redemption at the edge -- Territorial presence -- Crossovers and conversions -- Public order -- Hidden faces.
Summary "Since the Arab Spring in 2011 and ISIS's rise in 2014, Egypt's Copts have attracted attention worldwide as the collateral damage of revolution and as victims of sectarian strife. Countering the din of persecution rhetoric and Islamophobia, The Political Lives of Saints journeys into the quieter corners of divine intercession to consider what martyrs, miracles, and mysteries have to do with the more routine challenges faced by Christians and Muslims living together under the modern nation-state. Drawing on years of extensive fieldwork, Angie Heo argues for understanding popular saints as material media that organize social relations between Christians and Muslims in Egypt toward varying political ends. With an ethnographer's eye for traces of antiquity, she deciphers how long-cherished imaginaries of holiness broker bonds of revolutionary sacrifice, reconfigure national sites of sacred territory, and pose sectarian threats to security and order. A study of tradition and nationhood at their limits, The Political Lives of Saints shows that Coptic Orthodoxy is a core domain of minoritarian regulation and authoritarian rule, powerfully reversing the recurrent thesis of its impending extinction in the Arab Muslim world"--Provided by publisher.
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Subject Coptic Church -- Egypt.
Coptic Church.
Egypt.
Islam -- Relations -- Christianity.
Islam.
Relations.
Christianity.
Christianity and other religions -- Islam.
Christianity and other religions.
Coptic Christian saints -- Egypt.
Coptic Christian saints.
Islam and politics -- Egypt.
Islam and politics.
Copts -- Politics and government.
Copts -- Politics and government.
Copts.
Christianity -- Egypt.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Heo, Angie, 1979- Political lives of saints. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018] 9780520297975 (DLC) 2018019550
ISBN 9780520970120 (electronic book)
0520970128 (electronic book)
9780520297975 (hardcover alkaline paper)