Cargando…

Religious origins of nations? : the Christian communities of the Middle East /

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...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Haar Romeny, R. B. ter
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contributors; Preface; Articles; Presentation of the results of the Leiden project; Reaction from a social scientist; Contribution from a specialist in Syriac exegesis; Contributions from specialists in Syriac historiography; Contributions from art historians; Other sources for our knowledge of the identity formation of the Syrian Orthodox; Cases that may be comparable; Bas ter Haar Romeny, Epilogue: Religious Origins of Nations?; General Index; Index of Modern Authors.