Interview with Angie Heo

In the beginning of March 2018, Angie Heo gave a talk in our visiting seminar and we used this great opportunity to speak about her research. The interview, which is presented to you here in an audio form, was conducted in a collaboration with the LSE Religion and Global Society, and you can find its written version on their website.

Angie Heo is Assistant Professor of the Anthropology and Sociology of Religion at the University of Chicago. Her first book is The Political Lives of Saints: Christian-Muslim Mediation in Egypt (University of California Press, 2018).

 

 

Angie Heo: The Political Lives of Saints. Christian-Muslim Mediation in Egypt

On March 2, 2018 Angie Heo delivered a talk in our visiting seminar titled “The Political Lives of Saints: Christian-Muslim Mediation in Egypt”. We later conducted a brief interview with her.

Photo: Angie Heo

Photo iconography for the Libya Martyrs in the village of ‘Aur in Minya. Honored by the Coptic Church, the Libya Martyrs are the twenty-one migrant laborers who were killed by ISIS in February 2015.

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