The 21, a journey into the land of Coptic martyrs, Martin Mosebach ; translated by Alta L. Price
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The 21, a journey into the land of Coptic martyrs, Martin Mosebach ; translated by Alta L. Price
Language
eng
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The 21
Oclc number
1056202553
Responsibility statement
Martin Mosebach ; translated by Alta L. Price
Sub title
a journey into the land of Coptic martyrs
Summary
Behind a gruesome ISIS beheading video lies the untold story of the men in orange and the faith community that formed these unlikely modern-day saints and heroes. In a carefully choreographed propaganda video released in February 2015, ISIS militants behead twenty-one orange-clad Christian men on a Libyan beach. In twenty-one symbolic chapters, each preceded by a picture, Mosebach offers a travelogue of his encounter with a foreign culture and a church that has preserved the faith and liturgy of early Christianity - the "Church of the Martyrs." As a religious minority in Muslim Egypt, the Copts find themselves caught in a clash of civilizations. This book, then, is also an account of the spiritual life of an Arab country stretched between extremism and pluralism, between a rich biblical past and the shopping centers of New Cairo
Table Of Contents
The head of Saint Kiryollos -- What I write about and what I do not write about -- The video -- A conversation about martyrdom -- The martyrs' bishop -- The martyrs' pilgrimage church -- The martyrs' village -- The martyrs' houses -- With the martyrs' families -- Saint Menas's oil -- Matthew the Copt -- Abuna Bolla and Abuna Timotheus -- The martyrs' liturgy -- The flight into Egypt -- Hierarchical style -- Pilgrimage to the cloisters -- Wonders old and new -- With the Zabbaleens of Mokattam village -- A Coptic fantasia -- New Cairo, a mirage -- The minority and the majority -- Epilogue: the invisible army of martyrs
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Twenty-one
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- Biographies
- Coptic Christian saints -- Egypt -- Biography
- Copts + Religious life and customs
- Copts + Social conditions
- Martyrs -- Egypt -- Biography
- Egypt
- Mosebach, Martin, 1951- -- Travel -- Egypt
- Mosebach, Martin, 1951-
- Travel
- 2000-2099
- Copts + Social conditions -- 21st century
- Martyrs
- Coptic Christian saints
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- Subject13
- Biographies
- Coptic Christian saints -- Egypt -- Biography
- Copts + Religious life and customs
- Copts + Social conditions
- Martyrs -- Egypt -- Biography
- Egypt
- Mosebach, Martin, 1951- -- Travel -- Egypt
- Mosebach, Martin, 1951-
- Travel
- 2000-2099
- Copts + Social conditions -- 21st century
- Martyrs
- Coptic Christian saints
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