Contents; Glossary; Introduction; PART I: THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND; PART II: THE SUNDAY SCHOOL MOVEMENT; PART III: THE CHURCH AS POLITICAL SPOKESMAN; PART IV: THE CHURCH AS SOCIOECONOMIC ENTREPRENEUR; PART V: THE CHURCH AS CULTURAL AGENT; PART VI: THE POLITICS OF IDENTITY; PART VII: THREE QUESTIONS FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY; Conclusion: Toward a New Basis for National Equality?; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index
Summary
The Copts of Egypt are the largest Christian minority in the Middle East. In recent years they have often figured in the news as victims of bloody attacks by Islamic militants. Christians versus Muslims in Modern Egypt is the first study of Christian identity politics in contemporary Egypt. S.S. Hasan begins by looking at how the Coptic generation of the 1940s and 1950s remembered, recovered, and imagined the ancient history of Christianity in Egypt in order to weld the Copts into a unified nation, resistant to the growing encroachments of Islam. She argues that this interpretation of history
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-302) and index
