Description du projet
La diaspora orthodoxe copte et l’identité copte
Les chrétiens orthodoxes coptes représentent au moins 10 % de la population égyptienne. Ils ont été victimes durant leur histoire de persécutions et beaucoup d’entre eux ont fui vers l’Europe, un mouvement qui s’est traduit par la création d’une diaspora copte significative à partir des années 1960. Toutefois, la diaspora dans son ensemble a fait l’objet d’études insuffisantes. Le projet NEGOTIA, financé par l’UE, analysera les communautés coptes en Europe en tenant compte de trois aspects principaux couvrant les identités, les besoins et les relations. En se focalisant sur l’Église de San Giorgio Megalomartire établie par les immigrants coptes à Rome dans les années 1990 et en comparant les résultats avec le Centre culturel Orthodoxe Copte au Caire et avec l’Église de St. Petrus, der letzte Märtyrer à Hambourg, le projet étudiera l’histoire et l’héritage culturel de ces communautés s’agissant de la déconstruction et de la reconstruction de leur profil historique‑biographique et discursif‑relationnel à travers les processus de migration.
Objectif
NEGOTIA aims to analyse the Coptic Orthodox diaspora communities in Europe with specific regard to three key aspects: identities, needs, and relations, in order to reconstruct the theoretical-practical framework of religious mediation. Its first goal is to examine the origins and the history of these communities, their cultural heritage and the peculiarities of their religion, but above all the dynamics of deconstruction and reconstitution of the material, emotional and relational dimensions experienced by such communities in the pathways from their homeland to abroad and back. Its final goal is to define the research field of religious mediation through an integrated, methodological approach to Copts, who are a peculiar case study to conceptualise this topic, which has never been systematically studied before. At the core of NEGOTIA stands the Church of S. Giorgio Megalomartire, established in Rome as an independent Diocese in 1996. This community includes, among others: members with a migratory background; youth groups at least partially born in the diaspora; community religious and lay agents. It was a result of the 1960s migratory processes from Egypt and its profile is strongly characterised by continuous exchanges with their homeland. Thus, this Diocese will be analysed in close connection to the Coptic Orthodox Cultural Center, established in Cairo in 2008 “to preserve the rich Coptic heritage as an important epoch in Egyptian history and Christian tradition worldwide”, that exemplifies one of the most interesting, contemporary Coptic community centres of Egypt. Through a transnational comparative perspective, the data arising from the analysis of the Roman Diocese will be merged with the data collected studying the Coptic Church of St. Petrus, der letzte Märtyrer in Hamburg, the last research focus. This Church, founded in the 1970s, is one of the member churches of the North German Communities.
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MSCA-IF-GF - Global FellowshipsCoordinateur
00185 Roma
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