Abûnâ Sam'ân un prêtre bâtisseur en Égypte
(2015) Archives de Sciences Sociales des Religions — Vol. 3, n° 171, p. 165-185 (2015)
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- (en) This article argues that the Copts are not simply victims of the violence perpetrated by Islamists in Egypt, but that they are also agents capable of acting and adapting to their environment. This argument will be based on the case of Father Sam'a¯n, a prominent priest, known, among other things, for having built an impressive complex of seven churches at the heart of the garbage collector area of Muqattam in Cairo. As the paper highlights, the priest had to adapt to the different strategies and modes of action structuring local communities that were made available to him, such as urban development, local politics, and, above all, the characteristics of the communal Coptic milieu. He fulfilled his religious role in a style that could be called charismatic, and which included the practice of public exorcisms. This article explains how he took advantage of the Coptic tradition to serve a vision regularly criticized by his opponents, representatives of a protestant trend.
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du Roy de Blicquy, G. (2015). Abûnâ Sam’ân un prêtre bâtisseur en Égypte. Archives de Sciences Sociales des Religions, 3(171), 165-185. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/35430 (Original work published 2015)