The 21 : a journey into the land of Coptic martyrs /
Behind a gruesome ISIS beheading video lies the untold story of the men in orange and the faith community that formed these unlikely modern-day saints and heroes. In a carefully choreographed propaganda video released in February 2015, ISIS militants behead twenty-one orange-clad Christian men on a...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Walden, New York :
Pugh Publishing House,
[2019]
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| Summary: | Behind a gruesome ISIS beheading video lies the untold story of the men in orange and the faith community that formed these unlikely modern-day saints and heroes. In a carefully choreographed propaganda video released in February 2015, ISIS militants behead twenty-one orange-clad Christian men on a Libyan beach. In twenty-one symbolic chapters, each preceded by a picture, Mosebach offers a travelogue of his encounter with a foreign culture and a church that has preserved the faith and liturgy of early Christianity, the "Church of the Martyrs." As a religious minority in Muslim Egypt, the Copts find themselves caught in a clash of civilizations. This book, then, is also an account of the spiritual life of an Arab country stretched between extremism and pluralism, between a rich biblical past and the shopping centers of New Cairo. |
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| Item Description: | "Originally published under the title Die 21: Eine Reise ins Land der Koptischen Martyrer. Copyright © 2018 by Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, Reinbek bei Hamburg, Germany. English translation copyright © 2018 by Alta L. Price. The translation of this work was supported by a grant from the Goethe-Institut." |
| Physical Description: | 238 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780874868395 0874868394 |