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Middle Eastern Christians and Europe
Historical Legacies and Present Challenges

by Andreas Schmoller (editor)

Posted: Wednesday, May 09, 2018 at 09:31 PM UT

Middle Eastern Christians and Europe Historical Legacies and Present Challenges Edited by Andreas Schmoller LIT

Cover image: The Coptic-Orthodox Church Saint Marc in Vienna, close to the United Nations Center (also known as “Russenkirche”), Photo: Andreas Schmoller, 2014.

Description

Middle Eastern Christians have a long tradition of interacting with Europe.  As other minorities they have also "emerged" through relations of European powers with the region.  The historical circulation of people and ideas is also relevant for identities of Middle Eastern Christians who have settled in Europe in the past decades.  This volume, stemming from an interdisciplinary workshop in Salzburg 2016, brings together both perspectives of entanglement.

Andreas Schmoller is historian and researcher at the Centre for the Study of Eastern Christianity at the University of Salzburg/Austria.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Andreas Schmoller
Introduction 9

HISTORICAL LEGACIES

Bernard Heyberger
Migration of the Middle Eastern Christians and European Protection:
A Long History 23

Konstantinos Papastathis
Constructing the “Intra-communal Out-group”: the Greek Religious Establishment and the Arab Orthodox quantité négligeable in late Ottoman Jerusalem 43

Abdulhamit Kırmızı
European Educational Backgrounds of Armenian Officials in the Ottoman Empire 59

Maria Småberg
Material Help and Self-help: Materiality and Cosmopolitan Care in the Swedish Humanitarian Work among Armenian Refugees in Thessaloniki, 1923–1947 79

PRESENT CHALLENGES

Suha Shakkour
Learning to be British: The Significance of Education for Christian Palestinians in London 105

Lise Paulsen Galal…
“If I want to travel, I just travel.” Travels and Dwellings among Assyrians and Copts in Denmark 125

Andreas Schmoller
Of Safe Havens and Sinking Ships: The Church in Oral Histories of Middle Eastern Christians in Austria 147

Ryann Craig and Andrew W. Litke
The Christian Communities of the Middle East Diaspora: Capturing U.S. and European Experiences through Oral Histories 199

VARIA

Abdulmesih BarAbraham
Safeguarding the Cross: Emergence of Christian Militias in Iraq and Syria 217

Rocio Daga Portillo
Between Tradition and Modernity: The Status of Christians according to Modern Islamic Thought 239

About the Contributors 261