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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…

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…

The cultural dialectic that took place in Egypt from the early seventh to the tenth centuries CE, by which a complex society combining Coptic Christianity with a Greco-Roman cultural foundation was transformed into an Arabic-speaking society defined by Islam is examined. By draw…