Samuel Tadros provides a clear understanding of Copts?the native Egyptian Christians?and their crisis of modernity in conjunction with the overall developments in Egypt as it faced its own struggles with modernity. He argues that the modern plight of Copts is inseparable from th…
"In Motherland Lost, Samuel Tadros provides a clear understanding of the Copts--the native Egyptian Christians--and their crisis of modernity in conjunction with the overall developments in Egypt as it faced its own struggles with modernity. He argues against the dominating narr…
Samuel Tadros provides a clear understanding of Copts?the native Egyptian Christians?and their crisis of modernity in conjunction with the overall developments in Egypt as it faced its own struggles with modernity. He argues that the modern plight of Copts is inseparable from th…
House, Church, Cave examines the relationship between pluralism and placemaking in the context of a majority-Christian town in Upper Egypt. Coptic Christians, a religious minority in Egypt, have historically faced restrictions regarding how they can modify the places they inhabi…
Health inequalities exist in many societies and mostly reflect inequalities between social and ethnic/racial groups. This dissertation consists of three independent studies of health inequalities. Each study examines a different source of inequality and focuses on a particular h…
The Coptic Orthodox Church was established in the United States in early 1960s. At any local church there is among its congregation two subgroups: Egyptian and American Copt subgroups. The variance of cultural/religious practices of the two subgroups creates a dissonance between…