This contribution endeavors to show that building and administrating Coptic charitable associations according to the laws of the Egyptian Ministry of Social Affairs (mosa) does not mean allying with or challenging one of the two institutions that claim control over the Coptic Christian ethics of giving in Egypt: the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate and the Egyptian government. Especially since my interlocutors are simultaneously integral subjects of the waqf properties (endowments, i.e. the parishes) administered by the institutional Church, they are less interested in negotiating a true definition of such a practice. Beyond the power dynamics that have played out over the orthodoxy of religious practices and that are intensively analyzed in existing literature, I argue that maintaining relations with the two official entities that govern Christian charity in Egypt invites thinking about interactions developed within the context of a heavenly community. Instead of focusing on the competition of who holds and authorizes the better form of the Coptic Christian tradition of khidma (service), I suggest that the interactions with this divine community are sometimes intertwined with overlooked invisible and inaudible meanings of dissent and activism among members of the largest Christian minority in the Middle East.
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
2020
توصيف ظاهري
66-91
عنوان
Endowment Studies
شماره جلد
4/1-2
شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها
2468-5968
اصطلاحهای موضوعی کنترل نشده
اصطلاح موضوعی
Asian Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
charity
اصطلاح موضوعی
Comparative Religion & Religious Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
Copts
اصطلاح موضوعی
divine community
اصطلاح موضوعی
Egypt
اصطلاح موضوعی
History & Culture
اصطلاح موضوعی
Jewish Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
Medieval History
اصطلاح موضوعی
Middle East and Islamic Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
Religion
اصطلاح موضوعی
Religious Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
tradition
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