{"title":"Baptism in the Plural","authors":"Aaron Michka","doi":"10.5913/jcscs.13.2021.a002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5913/jcscs.13.2021.a002","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000This article provides an ethnographic account of baptism as it is practiced and understood by Christians living in a multi-denominational Upper Egyptian town. Given the challenges of defining baptism in ecumenical terms, this study approaches the topic in terms of three organizing frameworks: baptism as discourse, as rite, and as reproduction. These overlapping metaphors have the advantage of revealing what has often been overlooked in both Coptic studies and the anthropology of Christianity; namely, the ability of a shared Christian practice like baptism to structure interaction across denominations. This finding has particular relevance for the study of contemporary Copts, which has long been focused on Orthodox Copts to the neglect of Coptic Catholics, Evangelicals, and Pentecostals in Egypt. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":215998,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131481751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modern Martyrdom and Material Culture","authors":"Monica Gherbrial","doi":"10.5913/jcscs.13.2021.a007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5913/jcscs.13.2021.a007","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000Martyrdom has long been associated with the essence of the Coptic identity. The public execution of the 21 Martyrs of Libya in 2015 allowed for a rekindling of the Coptic narrative of persecution both locally and globally through digital and physical material culture. This movement occurred in the aftermath of decades of significant social and political change which redefined the structure of Egyptian society and the place of the Coptic minority within it. Digital material culture in the form of social media campaigns, an animation film and recorded interviews allow for a global audience and an international outcry from Copts around the globe, creating a new sense of unity in suffering that transcends physical boundaries. The physical material culture includes traditional iconography and a church that serves as a local monument to the legacy of sacrifice left by the 21. Together, physical and digital material culture intertwine to preserve the heritage of the Copts in a movement of solidarity never before seen. The martyrdom of the twenty-first occurred during a time filled with social and political change around the world, fueled by activism and resistance to long-established societal norms. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":215998,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126540311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Competing Notions of Integration in Canada’s First Coptic Orthodox Parishes, 1960s–1980s","authors":"Michael Akladios","doi":"10.5913/jcscs.13.2021.a004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5913/jcscs.13.2021.a004","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000Coptic identities are neither static nor reducible to a single definition. For the Coptic Orthodox, immigration and the process of integration produced multiple, competing responses across central Canada in the second half of the twentieth century that expose the complex social lives of individuals and groups. The author charts a history of collaboration and contestation among clergy, church activists, and cultural events organizers who held competing notions of integration in Cold War Montreal and Toronto. Rejecting a culturally driven interpretation that sees the Coptic Orthodox as homogenous and indistinguishable from their religious practices, this article argues that heteroglossia—of varied and at times opposing voices—should serve as a starting point for inquiry. Given the huge range and the challenges that lie ahead for reconstructing the Egyptian immigrant experience, the process of sharing in an array of interpretations is more important than a rigid definition. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":215998,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117204041","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Anthropology of Christian Pilgrimage: The Broadening Out of a Field","authors":"S. Coleman","doi":"10.5913/jcscs.2019.87322544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5913/jcscs.2019.87322544","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":215998,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124916709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Apophthegmata Patrum: Three Notes","authors":"Ariel Shisha-Halevy","doi":"10.5913/jcscs.2019.38998725","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5913/jcscs.2019.38998725","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":215998,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies","volume":"67 8","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132782483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Touring a Holy Land: Symbolic Geography and Travel in Late-Antique Egypt","authors":"R. Krawiec","doi":"10.5913/jcscs.2019.54349299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5913/jcscs.2019.54349299","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":215998,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies","volume":"136 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132823572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"St. Thecla and the Art of Her Pilgrims: Towards an Autonomous Feminine Aesthetic Praxis","authors":"Sabrina C. Higgins","doi":"10.5913/jcscs.2019.85674464","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5913/jcscs.2019.85674464","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":215998,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114712864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Xenodochia in the Pilgrimage Sites and Egyptian Monasteries from the Sixth to the Ninth Centuries: Survey of Literary and Archaeological Sources","authors":"Ramez Boutros","doi":"10.5913/jcscs.2019.69748874","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5913/jcscs.2019.69748874","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":215998,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127402956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Monastery of the Syrians as a Pilgrimage Destination","authors":"A. Harrak","doi":"10.5913/jcscs.2019.35453779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5913/jcscs.2019.35453779","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":215998,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122515164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"God Is in the Marshes: Late-Antique Asceticism and the Northeastern Nile Delta","authors":"Katherine Blouin","doi":"10.5913/jcscs.2019.75377755","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5913/jcscs.2019.75377755","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":215998,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134644985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}