TY  - BOOK
AU  - Doorn-Harder,Pieternella van
TI  - Contemporary Coptic nuns
AV  - BX137.D691.C668 1995 
PY  - 1995///
CY  - Columbia, South Carolina
PB  - University of South Carolina Press
KW  - Monasticism and religious orders for women
KW  - Coptic Church
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Egypt
N1  - 1 (pages 232-243) and index; The Copts in Egyptian society --; The monastic landscape --; The ruling mothers and fathers --; Leaving the world : the novitiate --; Dead to the world : the initiation rites --; Work and income --; The spiritual life --; The saints --; Visitors : the convent and the world --; Conclusion; 2
ER  -