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Anthony Shenoda
Whose Innocence?: Thoughts on Copts, Muslims, and a World Gone (Temporally) Mad
Note: The author posted the following addendum on 18 September 2012: I want to be very clear that I neither see the 'Innocence of Muslims' video as expressing a general Coptic view (if there is one) nor do I perceive the recent riots/ protests ostensibly in response to the film by Muslims to be indiciative of a general Muslim or Islamic ethos. What I do insist on, however, is that each of these (video & riots/ protests) can be understood metaphorically as expressing the ...
Keep Reading »Reflections on the (In)Visibility of Copts in Egypt
I've been thinking lately about the circumstances under which Coptic Christians emerge on the Egyptian socio-political landscape. Those circumstances tend to be, in a word, ugly. Copts become a visible religious community when they are attacked. And then Westerners in particular wonder: “Who are the Copts?” (I should also point out, however, that although well aware of the existence of Copts, or al-aqbat in Arabic, most Egyptian Muslims are equally unfamiliar with Coptic ...
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Anthony Shenoda is Assistant Professor of Anthropology & Religion at Leiden University College, The Hague. He is a sociocultural anthropologist with a focus on the anthropology of religion and the Middle East. His research and theoretical interests include The Anthropology of Christianity; materiality; miracles, visions, and dreams—particularly as these relate to institutionalized forms of religious power; Muslim-Christian relations; social memory; hope; prayer; and the anthropology of death and dying. Shenoda has published articles on the politics of faith in Egypt and Coptic Christians and the Egyptian revolution. He is currently working on a book entitled Cultivating Mystery: Miracles and a Coptic Moral Imaginary.
