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Keeping the Faith - Syriac Christian Diasporas (Hardcover, New)
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Keeping the Faith - Syriac Christian Diasporas (Hardcover, New)
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Indigenous Christian communities in Turkey and the Middle East have
declined dramatically in recent years, with large numbers
emigrating in the face of violence, war and conflict. Keeping the
Faith explores the impact of historical persecution and mass
migration on the Suryoye, Syriac Orthodox Christians, from Turkey.
Victims of genocide in 1915-16, subjugated by state nationalism in
the Turkish Republic, part of the Turkish exodus of guest workers
to Europe post 1960 and hemmed in by the Turkish-Kurdish conflict
in the last decades of the twentieth century, they dispersed
globally from eastern Anatolia. Only a few now remain in Turkey.
This book argues that these experiences migrated with those who
re-settled abroad and became incorporated into their life story.
Heidi Armbruster's ethnographic fieldwork both in rural villages
and a monastery in their Anatolian homeland, and with migrants and
their families in Berlin and Vienna, allows her to investigate a
number of contexts in which Syriac Christians create identities for
themselves, contested through the potent symbolic resources of the
Aramaic language, Christian religion, and Assyrian and Aramean
ethnicity. Suryoye personal relationships to a collective history
are not accessed through historians' accounts or institutional
narratives, but through the intimate social worlds the author
sensitively observes, in which experience and memories are formed,
and in which individuals articulate their stake in a larger and
more collective story. This discourse centres on 'community
endangerment' and lies at the heart of negotiations of identity,
family and group membership that are key to the spatial and
historical processes of migration and diaspora. This account
delineates with wonderful clarity how 'keeping the faith', has both
imperilled and formed the foundations of continuity and community,
for this fascinating group.
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