Rowman & Littlefield Publishers The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Christianity in the Middle East: 7 (Bloomsbury Handbooks)

Product Description This work represents the current and most relevant content on the studies of how Christianity has fared in the ancient home of its founder and birth. Much has been written about Christianity and how it has fared since its migration out of its homeland but this comprehensive reference work reassess the geographic and demographic impact of the dramatic changes in this perennially combustible world region. The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Christianity in the Middle East also spans the historical, socio-political and contemporary settings of the region and importantly describes the interactions that Christianity has had with other major/minor religions in the region. Review [This is] a helpful Handbook, one emphasizing facts over ideas, covering many oft-overlooked topics of Middle Eastern Christianity.-- "Middle East Quarterly"From the Foreword: "Understanding the story of Christianity in the Middle East is a critical necessity in political as well as religious terms. In this light, it is a splendid experience to read these two volumes of Christianity in the Middle East edited by Mitri Raheb and Mark A. Lamport, with their very wide-ranging contributions, and so much superlative research and writing, from a truly international assembly of fifty scholars. . . . The resulting volume constitutes a treasury on which scholars will be drawing for decades to come. This is a magnificent contribution."--Philip Jenkins, Distinguished Professor of History and Co-Director, Program on Historical Studies of Religion, Baylor University, Distinguished Professor of History and Co-Director, Program on Historical Studies of Religion, Baylor University About the Author is a graduate professor at schools in Arizona, Colorado, Indiana, Virginia, Belgium, Portugal, and The Netherlands. He is editor, coeditor, and author of ten multi-volume reference books, including the Handbook of Contemporary Christianity in the United States (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022).