Religious origins of nations? : the Christian communities of the Middle East / / edited by Bas ter Haar Romeny.
Though nations are nowadays seen as the product of modernity, comparable processes of community building were taking place even earlier. Thus the history of the Armenian, Coptic, Ethiopian, and Syrian Christians shows that close-knit ethnic groups already existed in Late Antiquity and early medieval...
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| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brill ebook titles
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (384 p.) |
| Notes: | Proceedings of a symposium held at the castle Oud Poelgeest near Leiden, Netherlands, 2007. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / B. Ter Haar Romeny
- The Formation Of A Communal Identity Among West Syrian Christians: Results And Conclusions Of The Leiden Project / Bas ter Haar Romeny , Naures Atto , Jan J. Van Ginkel , Mat Immerzeel and Bas Snelders
- Family Matters: Community, Ethnicity, And Multiculturalism / Willem Hofstee
- The Psalm Commentary Of Daniel Of Salah And The Formation Of Sixth-Century Syrian Orthodox Identity / David G.K. Taylor
- Syriac Historiography And Identity Formation / Muriel Debié
- Michael The Syrian And Syriac Orthodox Identity / Dorothea Weltecke
- Iconography And Identity: Syrian Elements In The Art Of Crusader Cyprus / Annemarie Weyl Carr
- Art And Identity In An Amulet Roll From Fourteenth-Century Trebizond / Glenn Peers
- Reflections On Identity. The Suryoye Of The Twelfth And Thirteenth Centuries: Bar Salibi, Bar Shakko, And Barhebraeus / Herman Teule
- Seeking Justice Among The ‘Outsiders’: Christian Recourse To Non-Ecclesiastical Judicial Systems Under Early Islam / Uriel Simonsohn
- Tradition And The Formation Of The ‘Nestorian’ Identity In Sixth- To Seventh-Century Iraq / Gerrit J. Reinink
- The Formation Of Armenian Identity In The First Millenium / Theo Maarten Van Lint
- The Copts: ‘Modern Sons Of The Pharaohs’? / Jacques Van Der Vliet
- Dominance And Diversity: Kingship, Ethnicity, And Christianity In Orthodox Ethiopia / Steven Kaplan
- The Development Of A Chalcedonian Identity In Byzantium (451–553) / Richard Price
- Epilogue: Religious Origins Of Nations? / Bas ter Haar Romeny
- General Index / B. Ter Haar Romeny
- Index Of Modern Authors / B. Ter Haar Romeny.