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The Vanishing: Faith, Loss, and the Twilight of Christianity in the Land of the Prophets
Maybe someday
29
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Readers
40/100Critics
17/100Scholars
Author:
Janine Di Giovanni
Publisher:
PublicAffairs
Date:
October 5, 2021
From Syria to Egypt, northern Iraq to the Gaza Strip, ancient communities that were the birthplaces of prophets and saints are losing any living connection to Christianity, the religion that once was such a characteristic feature of their social and cultural lives. Journalist Janine di Giovanni writes about the last traces of small, hardy Christian communities that have become fearful of outsiders and where ancient rituals are quietly preserved amid numerous threats.
What The Reviewers Say
... powerful.
... opens and closes with beautiful evocations of the power of faith in trying times.
With a reporting career spanning three decades throughout the region, she writes with poignant authenticity as she weaves her own deeply personal faith experiences with those of a parade of Middle Eastern citizens who populate the history she recounts of Iraq, Gaza, Syria, and Egypt, places foundational to early Christianity.
... poignant.
