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PIETERNELLAVAN DOORN-HARDER, Contemporary Coptic Nuns, Studies in Comparative Religion (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1995). Pp. 262.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 June 2001

Camilla Gibb
Camilla Gibb
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto
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Abstract

As van Doorn-Harder rightly states, recent research on women in the Arab world has focused nearly exclusively on Muslim women. In this study of contemporary Coptic nuns, van Doorn-Harder offers us richly detailed observations of the lives of a rarely studied group of Egyptian women. Situating this discussion in the context of Coptic revival in Egypt, van Doorn-Harder gives a sense of the dynamic and evolving functions of the Coptic church, and how these have been reflected in Egyptian convents since the mid-1950s.

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BOOK REVIEW
Information
International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 32 , Issue 4 , November 2000 , pp. 546 - 547
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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