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Copts and the security state : violence, coercion, and sectarianism in contemporary Egypt /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Guirguis, Laure
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2017.
Series:Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures
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Online Access:https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=26146
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Institutionalized violence and the identity-state
  • Desire and loathing : purity as an embodiment of security?
  • The many sides of the Coptic Church : space of resistance, state institution, ally of the regime
  • Infra-communitarian dynamics and tensions
  • Sectarianism, authoritarianism and the dynamics of fear
  • Contesting sectarianism under Mubarak's rule
  • Epilogue 2011-2015 : subversion and the restoration of identitarian dynamics.