A01=Mark Gruber
Author_Mark Gruber
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Category=QRM
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Product details
- ISBN 9780761825395
- Weight: 426g
- Dimensions: 153 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 18 Apr 2003
- Publisher: University Press of America
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The desert fathers of ancient Egypt are an inherently fascinating, historical phenomenon. Sacrifice in the Desert is an anthropological study of the contemporary spiritual descendents of these monks as they live out their lives in some of the most primitive and remote monasteries of the Sahara Desert. This book is an investigation of the role of these desert ascetics as the cultural center of the Copts of Egypt in their struggle for survival through centuries of oppression and marginalization.
Father Mark Gruber, O.S.B., a Benedictine monk of Saint Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe, is Associate Professor, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Saint Vincent College.
