Bethlehem's Syriac Christians : : Self, nation and church in dialogue and practice / / Mark Calder.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Calder, Mark,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: The Modern Muslim World
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (318 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; TABLE OF CONTENTS --; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --; PREFACE --; INTRODUCTION: FROM BIBLE-USE TO BETHLEHEM'S SYRIAC CHRISTIANS --; CHAPTER ONE: ARTICULATING THE BETHLEHEM ENVIRONMENT --; CHAPTER TWO: DIALOGUES OF DISPLACEMENT --; CHAPTER THREE: SYRIAN NARRATIVES IN THE BETHLEHEM ENVIRONMENT --; CHAPTER FOUR: PRAYER AND SELF-ARTICULATION IN THE SYRIAC ORTHODOX EUCHARIST --; CHAPTER FIVE: AUTHORITY AND IMAGINATION IN SYRIAN SELF-ARTICULATIONS --; CHAPTER SIX: "WHO IS BOB?" TOWARDS AN ANTHROPOLOGY WITH ECCLESIOLOGY --; AFTERWORD: WHAT ABOUT POWER? --; BIBLIOGRAPHY
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463237226; 9783110663013
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463237226
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Mark Calder.

An anthropological study of Syriac Orthodox Christian identity in a time of displacement, upheaval, and conflict. For some Syriac Orthodox Christians in Bethlehem, their self-articulation - the means by which they connect themselves to others, things, places and symbols - is decisively influenced by their eucharistic ritual. This ritual connects being siryāni to a redeemed community or 'body', and derives its identity in large part from the Incarnation of God as an Aramaic-speaking Bethlehemite.