Linda Walbridge: 2 books
The Christians of Pakistan
The Passion of Bishop John Joseph
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
In May 1998, John Joseph, the first native Pakistani Catholic bishop, shot himself in front of the courthouse where a Christian had been sentenced to death for blasphemy. This book tells the story of the Christians in Pakistan, with Bishop Joseph as its centrepiece. It is an account of outcastes who...
Without Forgetting the Imam
Lebanese Shi’ism in an American Community
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1996
Without Forgetting the Imam is an ethnographic study of the religious life of the Lebanese Shi'ites of Dearborn, Michigan, the largest Muslim community outside of the Middle East. Based on four years of fieldwork, this book explores how the Lebanese who have emigrated, most in the past three decades,...