Mark D. Calder

Mark Calder is an honorary research fellow in Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. He is also regional manager for a Middle East humanitarian organisation and, as a postdoctoral fellow at Durham University, recently completed research projects on the predicament of youth in the eastern Mediterranean and on civil society peacebuilding in Syria.

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Bethlehem's Syriac Christians

Self, nation and church in dialogue and practice

By Mark D. Calder

Series: The Modern Muslim World 4

ISBN: 978-1-4632-0637-6

An anthropological study of Syriac Orthodox Christian identity in a time of displacement, upheaval, and conflict. For some Syriac Orthodox Christians in Bethlehem, their self-articulation - the means by which they connect themselves to others, things, places and symbols - is decisively influenced by their eucharistic ritual. This ritual connects being siryāni to a redeemed community or 'body', and derives its identity in large part from the Incarnation of God as an Aramaic-speaking Bethlehemite.