Essays about: "Coptic"
Found 5 essays containing the word Coptic.
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1. The overturn of the resurrection – a new reading of The treatise on the resurrection. : The Valentinian rejection of realised eschatology in Nag Hammadi codex 1,4
University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskapAbstract : “The Treatise on the resurrection” is a Coptic translation of a Greek source text that not is preserved. The text belongs to the Nag Hammadi codices. The text is probably produced during the second century. In this thesis, the text will be placed in the Valentinian context, and then as the Valentinianism is presented in codices 1 and XI. READ MORE
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2. Woman Monks of Coptic and Christian Hagiography
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historiaAbstract : Woman monks are not uncommon to find in Coptic and other hagiographic literature. They were described to dress into male attire and travel to anchoritic monasteries where they would get a single cell to devote their lives to God through seclusion, prayers, fasting, meditation, studies, and other daily chores, all the while not being known as women by most of the men in their brethren. READ MORE
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3. Institutional Design in Post-Mubarak Egypt: Consociationalism and the Protection of Coptic Christian Interests
University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : The focus of this project will be on democratic institutional design in Egypt following the 2011 revolution. Although important, little attention will necessarily be given to examining the challenges and prospects for democracy in post-Mubarak Egypt more broadly. READ MORE
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4. Blessed Are They Who Are Persecuted, for Theirs Is the Kingdom of Heaven: Religious Resistance among Coptic Christians in Egypt
University essay from Lunds universitet/SocialantropologiAbstract : .... READ MORE
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5. Gender, religion and society : a study of women and convent life in coptic orthodox Egypt
University essay from Kulturantropologiska avdelningenAbstract : .... READ MORE