{"product_id":"embracing-the-divine-passion-and-politics-in-the-christian-middle-east-9780815632610","title":"Embracing the Divine: Passion and Politics in the Christian Middle East","description":"\u003cp\u003eHndiyya al-'Ujaimi, a young eighteenth-century nun whose faith was matched by her ambition and intellect, lies at the heart of this absorbing history of Middle Eastern Christianity. At the age of twenty-six, Hindiyya left her hometown of Aleppo to establish a convent in the mountains of Lebanon. Her order and her growing public profile as a visionary and living saint met with stiff opposition from Latin missionaries and with mistrust from the Vatican. Church authorities were suspicious of feminine spirituality and independent religious authority, eventually subjecting her to two Inquisitions by the Vatican. Sentenced to spend her entire life imprisoned, Hindiyya died in 1798 in her cell, leaving a legacy that shaped the church for many years to come. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCompelling in its cinematic scope--resplendent with the requisite villains and mysterious events infused with sinister and sexual tensions, tragedy, and pathos--Hindiyya's story holds within its folds a larger tale about the construction of a new Christianity in the Levant. Khater skillfully reveals what her story tells us about religious minorities in the Middle East, early modern cultural encounters between the West and the Middle East, and the relationship between gender, modernity, and religion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Akram Khater\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Syracuse University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/30\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 311\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.26h x 6.38w x 0.96d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780815632610\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAkram Fouad Khater\u003c\/b\u003e is professor and director of Middle East studies and of the Khayrallah Program for Lebanese-American Studies at North Carolina State University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eInventing Home: Emigration, Gender, and the Middle Class in Lebanon, 1870-1920\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSources in the History of the Middle East.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Syracuse University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40183737614451,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":38.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_f32a6661-6df2-4197-aef9-23d61a7c3dc6.jpg?v=1655559389","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/embracing-the-divine-passion-and-politics-in-the-christian-middle-east-9780815632610","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}