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- catalog contributor b12895450.
- catalog contributor b12895451.
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-249) and indexes.".
- catalog description "The Monastery as an Enclosed Society -- The Copts in Egypt -- How the Moslems View the Copts and Their Monks -- The Fieldwork -- Sacrifice in a Historical Perspective -- Non-Western Rituals -- Biblical/Coptic Sacrifice -- Desert Spirituality and Its Symbolic Location -- The Monasteries in the Desert -- Where Angels Led Them -- Desert Asceticism -- The Origins of Coptic Monasticism -- Byzantine Exploitation and the Emergence of Desert Monks -- Coptic Monasticism as Cultural Opposition -- Monasticism in Egypt's Modern Era -- British Influence -- Contemporary Monastic Revival -- The Patriarch Enthroned in Exile -- Deir Dwellers -- A Moment in the Deir -- The Monks -- In Their Own Words -- Forming the Monastic Persona -- The Spiritual Father -- Behavioral Embodiments of Value -- Desert Poetics -- The Monastic Regimen -- Coptic Culture and Monasticism -- The Orientation of Prayer -- The Validation of Worship -- Coptic Liturgy -- Monastic Prayer and Sacrifice -- The New Adam -- Transcendence of Time and Space -- Times Sanctified by Fasting -- The Space of Sacrifice -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: Ethiopian Monasticism -- Notes -- Glossary of Coptic and Liturgical Terms --Bibliography: Cited and Consulted Works -- Author Index -- Subject Index.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 264 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Sacrifice in the desert.".
- catalog identifier "0761825398 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Sacrifice in the desert.".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Lanham, Md. : University Press of America,".
- catalog relation "Sacrifice in the desert.".
- catalog subject "271/.8172 21".
- catalog subject "BX137.2 .G785 2003".
- catalog subject "Coptic monasticism and religious orders.".
- catalog subject "Copts.".
- catalog subject "Monasticism and religious orders, Coptic.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The Monastery as an Enclosed Society -- The Copts in Egypt -- How the Moslems View the Copts and Their Monks -- The Fieldwork -- Sacrifice in a Historical Perspective -- Non-Western Rituals -- Biblical/Coptic Sacrifice -- Desert Spirituality and Its Symbolic Location -- The Monasteries in the Desert -- Where Angels Led Them -- Desert Asceticism -- The Origins of Coptic Monasticism -- Byzantine Exploitation and the Emergence of Desert Monks -- Coptic Monasticism as Cultural Opposition -- Monasticism in Egypt's Modern Era -- British Influence -- Contemporary Monastic Revival -- The Patriarch Enthroned in Exile -- Deir Dwellers -- A Moment in the Deir -- The Monks -- In Their Own Words -- Forming the Monastic Persona -- The Spiritual Father -- Behavioral Embodiments of Value -- Desert Poetics -- The Monastic Regimen -- Coptic Culture and Monasticism -- The Orientation of Prayer -- The Validation of Worship -- Coptic Liturgy -- Monastic Prayer and Sacrifice -- The New Adam -- Transcendence of Time and Space -- Times Sanctified by Fasting -- The Space of Sacrifice -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: Ethiopian Monasticism -- Notes -- Glossary of Coptic and Liturgical Terms --Bibliography: Cited and Consulted Works -- Author Index -- Subject Index.".
- catalog title "Sacrifice in the desert : a study of an Egyptian minority through the prism of Coptic monasticism / Mark Gruber ; edited by M. Michele Ransil ; with a foreword by William Arens.".
- catalog type "text".