Bethlehem's Syriac Christians
Subtitle: self, nation and church in dialogue and practice
By: Mark D. Calder
Series: The Modern Muslim World -- 4; Modern Muslim world (Piscataway, NJ) -- 4.
Publisher: Gorgias Press LLC.; Gorgias Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Piscataway, NJ, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9781463206376
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Syrian Orthodox Church
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : from Bible-use to Bethlehem's Syriac Christians; title: Articulating the Bethlehem environment; title: Dialogues of displacement; title: Syrian narratives in the Bethlehem environment; title: Prayer and self-articulation in the Syriac Orthodox eucharist; title: Authority and imagination in Syrian self-articulations; title: "Who is Bob? : towards an anthropology with ecclesiology.