The Emergence of the Modern Coptic Papacy

Guirguis, Magdi; Doorn-Harder, Nelly van

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“…Indeed, it is al-Baba Kyrillos' good relations with President-General Gamal Abdel-Nasser that Copts frequently celebrate as one of the key reasons that churches, monasteries, and shrines multiplied and flourished under his leadership. Nowhere else is the authoritarian nature of Pope-President alliances more iconographically conveyed than in the halls of the third-century Hanging Church within the ancient quarters that tourists now call "Coptic Cairo" (see also Guirguis and van Doorn Harder 2011) (Figure 1). Across from the apostolic portraits of the Popes of Alexandria, photographs of Pope-President partnerships from the recent past to the uncertain future mark the cyclical onset of church-state dealings at their very personified tops.…”

Section: Faces Of Authoritarian Mystification Angie Heomentioning

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Faces of Authoritarian Mystification

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2014

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Section: Faces Of Authoritarian Mystification Angie Heomentioning

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Faces of Authoritarian Mystification

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2014

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“…The banishment to a desert monastery was the result of escalating tensions between Shenouda and Sadat who considered the former to be a political opponent whose disempowerment became inevitable. 55 Furthermore, the community did not publish a magazine to connect the Viennese or Austrian Copts and to establish themselves more as a distinct group; instead, it was regarded sufficient that Father Yuhanna, the Coptic priest in Austria, sent around 100-150 copies of each issue of the Patriarchal journal al-Keraza to Copts in Austria. 56…”

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The Syriac Orthodox and Coptic Orthodox Churches in Austria: Inter-Church Relations and State Recognition

Schmoller¹

2021

Mashriq & Mahjar

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This article explores the inter-church and church-state relations of the Syriac Orthodox and Coptic Orthodox Churches in Austria. The strong historic role of the Catholic Church in Austria's political landscape provides the central framework to understand the “story of success” regarding relations with both the Catholic Church and state authorities in Austria. Summarizing the history of migration and establishment of diaspora churches in Austria, the article explores the impact of the support of the Catholic Church in the process of institutionalization. In addition, state recognition and examples of church-state interaction are highlighted. The findings support the conclusion that minority churches from the Oriental Orthodox tradition have benefitted strongly from their relations with the majority church and the state. However, their authority in both religious and political contexts also affects personal leadership and internal affiliations which can lead to divisions within the church communities.

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“…1 Considered the largest "religious minority" in the Arab Middle East, Copts and their precarious status direct attention to the role that "religion" (and what kind of "religion") plays in their systemic marginalization in the nation and society. Parallel to the Islamic Revival that swept the Muslim world from the 1970s onward (Mahmood 2005;Hirschkind 2006), the "Coptic Renaissance" (al-nahḍ a al-qibṭ īya) gave rise to expansive administrative, educational, and social reforms (el-Khawaga 1998;Hasan 2003;Guirguis and van Doorn-Harder 2011;Sedra 2011). It was also during this period that the Coptic Church consolidated its powers as the key institution of communal representation with respect to the Egyptian state's authoritarian rule (Rowe 2009;Shenoda 2012;Tadros 2013).…”

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The Virgin Between Christianity and Islam: Sainthood, Media, and Modernity in Egypt

Heo

2013

Journal of the American Academy of Religion

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This article investigates what it means for the Virgin Mary to be a common figure between Christianity and Islam. Departing from approaches which emphasize the textual biography and personality of figural saints, it explores the Virgin as a contested image of divine intercession among Muslims and Christians on the ground. Beginning with lived contexts of everyday mediation, it thus situates the "commonness" of the Virgin within the thick practical realities of modern communication and imagination. More specifically, it probes one ethnographic case of a Marian apparition which occurred in Giza in 2009, producing eyewitness observation and critical reflection. My aim is to show how the historical phenomenon of "collective apparitions" provides a distinctive visual-cultural platform for evaluating the communicatively public aspects of saintly mediation. In doing so, this study concretely traces how growing cults of the Virgin Mary shape newly widespread practices

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The Emergence of the Modern Coptic Papacy

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Faces of Authoritarian Mystification

Faces of Authoritarian Mystification

The Syriac Orthodox and Coptic Orthodox Churches in Austria: Inter-Church Relations and State Recognition

The Virgin Between Christianity and Islam: Sainthood, Media, and Modernity in Egypt

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