Politics of Worship in the Contemporary Middle East - Sainthood in Fragile States

Sainthood in Fragile States investigates how precariousness and ambiguity are embedded in saint worship. The book explores the intersections between religious and secular figures to show the role of sainthood and its contestation in the contemporary Middle East.

About the author

Andreas Bandak is an anthropologist and PhD Fellow at University of Copenhagen. His research focuses on the Christian minorities in Syria. He has co-edited a special issue of Ethnos entitled Foregrounds and Backgrounds: Ventures in the Anthropology of Christianity (2012).

Mikkel Bille holds a PhD in anthropology from UCL (2009) and is Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He has co-edited An Anthropology of Absence (2010), and co-authored Materialitet. En indføring i kultur, identitet og teknologi (2012) in Danish.

Product details

• Assisted by: Andreas Bandak (Editor), Mikkel Bille (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.03.2013
• EAN: 9789004247826
• ISBN: 978-90-04-24782-6
• No. of pages: 228
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 239 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 522 g
• Series: Social, Economic and Political
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions