Religious Origins of Nations? The Christian Communities of the Middle East. Edited by Bas ter Haar Romeny
Members of the West Syrian community of today face a number of questions concerning their identity. Do they constitute an ethnic community or a simply a religious group? If the answer is the former, were their origins religious, viz. traceable to the creation of a separate ecclesiastical entity that...
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Format: | Electronic Review |
Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2012
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2012, Volume: 63, Issue: 2, Pages: 744-747 |
Review of: | Religious origins of nations? (Leiden [u.a.] : Brill, 2009) (Rassi, Salam)
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Summary: | Members of the West Syrian community of today face a number of questions concerning their identity. Do they constitute an ethnic community or a simply a religious group? If the answer is the former, were their origins religious, viz. traceable to the creation of a separate ecclesiastical entity that would later be known as the Syriac Orthodox church? This volume, edited by Bas ter Haar Romeny, presents the fruits of a Leiden University-based research project funded by a PIONIER grant from the Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research (NWO), entitled The Formation of a Communal Identity among West Syrian Christians (451–1300), which reached its conclusion in 2009. The chapters began life as conference papers presented in a symposium held at Oud Poelgeest castle near Leiden in 2007. |
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ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fls093 |