Competing Notions of Integration in Canada's First Coptic Orthodox Parishes, 1960s-1980s.
Coptic identities are neither static nor reducible to a single definition. For the Coptic Orthodox, immigration and the process of integration produced multiple, competing responses across central Canada in the second half of the twentieth century that expose the complex social lives of individuals...
| Published in: | Journal of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies Vol. 13; pp. 79 - 92 |
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Lockwood Press
2021
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