Research Catalog

Title

Sacrifice in the desert : a study of an Egyptian minority through the prism of Coptic monasticism / Mark Gruber ; edited by M. Michele Ransil ; with a foreword by William Arens.

Author

Gruber, Mark, O.S.B.

Publication

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

Ransil, M. Michele.

Description

xiv, 264 p.; 23 cm.

Subjects

• Copts
• Coptic monasticism and religious orders

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-249) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Monastery as an Enclosed Society -- The Copts in Egypt -- How the Moslems View the Copts and Their Monks -- The Fieldwork -- Sacrifice in a Historical Perspective -- Non-Western Rituals -- Biblical/Coptic Sacrifice -- Desert Spirituality and Its Symbolic Location -- The Monasteries in the Desert -- Where Angels Led Them -- Desert Asceticism -- The Origins of Coptic Monasticism -- Byzantine Exploitation and the Emergence of Desert Monks -- Coptic Monasticism as Cultural Opposition -- Monasticism in Egypt's Modern Era -- British Influence -- Contemporary Monastic Revival -- The Patriarch Enthroned in Exile -- Deir Dwellers -- A Moment in the Deir -- The Monks -- In Their Own Words -- Forming the Monastic Persona -- The Spiritual Father -- Behavioral Embodiments of Value -- Desert Poetics -- The Monastic Regimen -- Coptic Culture and Monasticism -- The Orientation of Prayer -- The Validation of Worship -- Coptic Liturgy -- Monastic Prayer and Sacrifice -- The New Adam -- Transcendence of Time and Space -- Times Sanctified by Fasting -- The Space of Sacrifice -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: Ethiopian Monasticism -- Notes -- Glossary of Coptic and Liturgical Terms --Bibliography: Cited and Consulted Works -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

ISBN

0761825398 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003048439

OCLC

• 51983599
• SCSB-11879375

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library