TY  - BOOK
AU  - Heo,Angie
TI  - The political lives of saints: Christian-Muslim mediation in Egypt 
T2  - California scholarship online
SN  - 9780520970120 (ebook) :
AV  - BP172.5.C6 
U1  - 281.720962 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Oakland, California
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Coptic Church
KW  - Egypt
KW  - Copts
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Islam
KW  - Relations
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Christianity and other religions
KW  - Coptic Christian saints
KW  - Islam and politics
KW  - Politics and government
N1  - Previously issued in print: 2018; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - From the Arab uprisings in 2011 to ISIS's rise in 2014, Egypt's Copts have been at the center of anxious rhetoric surrounding the politics of Christian-Muslim coexistence in the Middle East. Despite the unprecedented levels of violence they have suffered in recent years, the current predicament of Copts signals more durable structures of church and state authoritarianism that challenge the ahistorical kernel of persecution politics and Islamophobia. This text examines the political lives of saints to specify the role that religion has played in the making of national unity and sectarian conflict in Egypt since the 1952 coup
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520297975.001.0001
ER  -