Candace Lukasik
Biographic Data
| ID | 145198 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Candace Lukasik |
| GIVEN NAMES | Candace |
| FAMILY NAME | Lukasik |
| SIGNATURE | LUKASIK C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9030-905X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
On Islam is a Foreign Country
Thinking with “Pedagogies of Persuasion”
Introduction to Special Issue: What is “Critical” about “Critical Coptic Studies”
In 2018, the St. Athanasius College and the University of Divinity co-hosted an international symposium themed, "Copts in Modernity" in Melbourne, Australia.Focused on the history of the Coptic Orthodox Church and community between the 18th and 21st centuries, the symposium traversed topics from hymnology to monastic dream interpretation."How does an 'ancient culture' develop in the modern world?" was rhetorically asked during the opening night a…
Suffering Subjects: Human Rights and the Geopolitics of Concern
As Talal Asad elaborates in Chapter 4 of Formations of the Secular (2003), "Redeeming the 'Human' through Human Rights," human rights discourse has long been criticized for failing to attend to the systematic and modular relations between violence and redress. Defining the 'human' in human rights is dependent upon its adjudication by independent states (or those states honoring signed treaties) and the remedies those states can supply. The 'human…
Power Circuits: Asymmetries of Global Christianity
This article examines the idea of global Christianity in scholarship and the postcolonial and present imperial conditions that underlie it. Through an analysis of the fields of World Christianity and the anthropology of Christianity, it considers how Western Christian histories and power dynamics have impacted Christian traditions of the Global South and seriously considers the pervasive logics of geopolitical power that transform local contexts–…
Migrating Minority: Persecution Politics in Transnational Perspective
Every June, Coptic Solidarity, a lobbying organization, holds an annual conference in Washington, DC, with the aim of raising awareness of the persecution of Coptic and other Middle Eastern Christians. The Copt-run organization reaches out to American politicians, religious leaders, and advocates of human rights and religious freedom. During their 2016 conference, a panel entitled “What is the Future of Egypt's Minorities?” sparked a heated debat…
The Politics of Persecution: Middle Eastern Christians in an Age of Empire. By Mitri Raheb
In recent years, the plight of Middle Eastern Christians in the wake of both the Arab Spring and the rise of ISIS has been a central focus of Western religiopolitical interest. Western Christians have depicted Middle Eastern Christians as persecuted peoples and martyred co-religionists, viewing their plight as an extension of a broader global trend of anti-Christian hate. In his latest book, Mitri Raheb offers a historical account and contemporar…
Book forum on Charles Hirschkind, The Feeling of History: Islam, Romanticism, and Andalusia (Chicago, 2021)
Basit Kareem Iqbal and Candace B. LukasikCharles Hirschkind begins his new book, The Feeling of History: Islam, Romanticism, and Andalusia, by stating his argument simply: ‘medieval Muslim Iberia d
Economy of Blood: The Persecuted Church and the Racialization of American Copts
Since the 1990s, attacks on Egyptian Copts have been made legible to American (particularly evangelical) audiences through the moral imaginary of the "Persecuted Church," which argues that Christians around the globe are persecuted more than any other time in history. Images of bloodied Egyptian Coptic bodies have circulated among Western Christian religio-political networks in an "economy of blood," an imperial economy of Christian kinship that …
Postcolonial Solidarities: Oriental Orthodox Kinship in an Age of Migration
This essay attends to contemporary Oriental Orthodox solidarity as a postcolonial condition and to the possibilities of communal belonging along different planes of theopolitical intelligibility. Oriental Orthodox debates around what I call the "social hierarchy of theological truth" are mired in colonial histories of civilizational order and the production of the collective experience of Byzantine and Islamic subjugation. The project of making O…
Christianizing Egypt: Syncretism and local worlds in late antiquity
Christianizing Egypt: syncretism and local worlds in late antiquity." Political Theology, 19(6), pp. 544–545
Conquest of Paradise: Secular Binds and Coptic Political Mobilization
This article explores conflicts within the Coptic community related to problems of definition and representation. Coptic groups that emerged from Egypt’s 2011 revolution brought these tensions to the fore. Groups such as the prominent Maspero Youth Union (MYU) [Itihad Shabab Maspero] were formed to contest the hegemony of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Egyptian national politics. The MYU and others have attempted to reconstruct social boundaries d…
Shaping the Body Politic: Art and Political Formation in Early America
Journal Article Shaping the Body Politic: Art and Political Formation in Early America Get access Maurie D. McInnis and Louis P. Nelson (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011. xii, 313 pp. $45.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 2, September 2014, Pages 570–571, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau484 Published: 01 September 2014
Economy of Blood: The Persecuted Church and the Racialization of American Copts
Since the 1990s, attacks on Egyptian Copts have been made legible to American (particularly evangelical) audiences through the moral imaginary of the "Persecuted Church," which argues that Christians around the globe are persecuted more than any other time in history. Images of bloodied Egyptian Coptic bodies have circulated among Western Christian religio-political networks in an "economy of blood," an imperial economy of Christian kinship that …
Conquest of Paradise: Secular Binds and Coptic Political Mobilization
This article explores conflicts within the Coptic community related to problems of definition and representation. Coptic groups that emerged from Egypt’s 2011 revolution brought these tensions to the fore. Groups such as the prominent Maspero Youth Union (MYU) [Itihad Shabab Maspero] were formed to contest the hegemony of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Egyptian national politics. The MYU and others have attempted to reconstruct social boundaries d…
Postcolonial Solidarities: Oriental Orthodox Kinship in an Age of Migration
This essay attends to contemporary Oriental Orthodox solidarity as a postcolonial condition and to the possibilities of communal belonging along different planes of theopolitical intelligibility. Oriental Orthodox debates around what I call the "social hierarchy of theological truth" are mired in colonial histories of civilizational order and the production of the collective experience of Byzantine and Islamic subjugation. The project of making O…
Christianizing Egypt: Syncretism and local worlds in late antiquity
Christianizing Egypt: syncretism and local worlds in late antiquity." Political Theology, 19(6), pp. 544–545
Shaping the Body Politic: Art and Political Formation in Early America
Journal Article Shaping the Body Politic: Art and Political Formation in Early America Get access Maurie D. McInnis and Louis P. Nelson (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011. xii, 313 pp. $45.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 2, September 2014, Pages 570–571, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau484 Published: 01 September 2014
Conquest of Paradise: Secular Binds and Coptic Political Mobilization
This article explores conflicts within the Coptic community related to problems of definition and representation. Coptic groups that emerged from Egypt’s 2011 revolution brought these tensions to the fore. Groups such as the prominent Maspero Youth Union (MYU) [Itihad Shabab Maspero] were formed to contest the hegemony of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Egyptian national politics. The MYU and others have attempted to reconstruct social boundaries d…
Christianizing Egypt: Syncretism and local worlds in late antiquity
Christianizing Egypt: syncretism and local worlds in late antiquity." Political Theology, 19(6), pp. 544–545
Postcolonial Solidarities: Oriental Orthodox Kinship in an Age of Migration
This essay attends to contemporary Oriental Orthodox solidarity as a postcolonial condition and to the possibilities of communal belonging along different planes of theopolitical intelligibility. Oriental Orthodox debates around what I call the "social hierarchy of theological truth" are mired in colonial histories of civilizational order and the production of the collective experience of Byzantine and Islamic subjugation. The project of making O…
Book forum on Charles Hirschkind, The Feeling of History: Islam, Romanticism, and Andalusia (Chicago, 2021)
Basit Kareem Iqbal and Candace B. LukasikCharles Hirschkind begins his new book, The Feeling of History: Islam, Romanticism, and Andalusia, by stating his argument simply: ‘medieval Muslim Iberia d
Economy of Blood: The Persecuted Church and the Racialization of American Copts
Since the 1990s, attacks on Egyptian Copts have been made legible to American (particularly evangelical) audiences through the moral imaginary of the "Persecuted Church," which argues that Christians around the globe are persecuted more than any other time in history. Images of bloodied Egyptian Coptic bodies have circulated among Western Christian religio-political networks in an "economy of blood," an imperial economy of Christian kinship that …
Migrating Minority: Persecution Politics in Transnational Perspective
Every June, Coptic Solidarity, a lobbying organization, holds an annual conference in Washington, DC, with the aim of raising awareness of the persecution of Coptic and other Middle Eastern Christians. The Copt-run organization reaches out to American politicians, religious leaders, and advocates of human rights and religious freedom. During their 2016 conference, a panel entitled “What is the Future of Egypt's Minorities?” sparked a heated debat…
The Politics of Persecution: Middle Eastern Christians in an Age of Empire. By Mitri Raheb
In recent years, the plight of Middle Eastern Christians in the wake of both the Arab Spring and the rise of ISIS has been a central focus of Western religiopolitical interest. Western Christians have depicted Middle Eastern Christians as persecuted peoples and martyred co-religionists, viewing their plight as an extension of a broader global trend of anti-Christian hate. In his latest book, Mitri Raheb offers a historical account and contemporar…
Power Circuits: Asymmetries of Global Christianity
This article examines the idea of global Christianity in scholarship and the postcolonial and present imperial conditions that underlie it. Through an analysis of the fields of World Christianity and the anthropology of Christianity, it considers how Western Christian histories and power dynamics have impacted Christian traditions of the Global South and seriously considers the pervasive logics of geopolitical power that transform local contexts–…
Suffering Subjects: Human Rights and the Geopolitics of Concern
As Talal Asad elaborates in Chapter 4 of Formations of the Secular (2003), "Redeeming the 'Human' through Human Rights," human rights discourse has long been criticized for failing to attend to the systematic and modular relations between violence and redress. Defining the 'human' in human rights is dependent upon its adjudication by independent states (or those states honoring signed treaties) and the remedies those states can supply. The 'human…
Thinking with “Pedagogies of Persuasion”
Introduction to Special Issue: What is “Critical” about “Critical Coptic Studies”
In 2018, the St. Athanasius College and the University of Divinity co-hosted an international symposium themed, "Copts in Modernity" in Melbourne, Australia.Focused on the history of the Coptic Orthodox Church and community between the 18th and 21st centuries, the symposium traversed topics from hymnology to monastic dream interpretation."How does an 'ancient culture' develop in the modern world?" was rhetorically asked during the opening night a…
On Islam is a Foreign Country
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