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In the first chapter, I said this study would, in the words of Geertz, “look for general truths while sifting through special cases.” I did this by looking at national and local ways Christians managed their status in Egypt. The special case of a community of vulnerable Christians in a poor quarter of Cairo in particular allowed us to detail the strategies Christians use to improve their chances of survival under difficult circumstances.
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Rugh, A.B. (2016). Christian Strategies and Survival in Modern Egypt. In: Christians in Egypt. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-56613-3_17
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