Christianity in the Contemporary Middle East: Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant Communities in Context - Paperback

by Deanna Ferree Womack (Volume Editor)

Who are the Christians of the Middle East? How have churches and Christian organizations responded to violent conflicts, political unrest, refugee flows, and economic crises in the region? Does such socio-political turmoil define Middle Eastern Christians as a group? By what methods do scholars today study Christian communities in the Middle East? This volume addresses such pertinent questions and contributes to a growing body of scholarship on the contemporary realities and recent histories of institutional churches and Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant communities in the Middle East. It focuses on the Arabic-speaking regions of North Africa and West Asia, while including studies on Christians in these regions who are not Arab and who use vernacular and liturgical languages other than Arabic. The diversity and rich heritage of Christianity in the Middle East is apparent in chapters on Christianity in Egypt, Palestine, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq.

Author Biography

Deanna Ferree Womack is Associate Professor of History of Religions and Interfaith Studies at Emory University's Candler School of Theology in Atlanta. She is the author of Protestants, Gender and the Arab Renaissance in Late Ottoman Syria (2019), Neighbors: Christians and Muslims Building Community (2020), and Re-inventing Islam: Gender and the Protestant Roots of American Islamophobia (2025).