The Invisible Life-worlds of a Coptic Christian Mina Adel Ibrahim Coffeehouse Prison Coptic Orthodox Church Coptic Christians (In-)Visibility Pope Shenouda III This essay presents the life-story of a Coptic Christian between the PlayStation lounge, the coffeehouse and the prison. By taking this constellation as a point of departure, I broadly link such a portrait to overlooked contacts between Coptic Christian youth and the clerical hierarchy of the institution of the Coptic Orthodox Church. While attention is usually given to how Copts experience, negotiate and struggle against the various roles of the Church and its tradition of khidma (service), I investigate Coptic youngsters’ lifeworlds when they wish or have to stay invisible from the Coptic Church’s presumptions of representing its congregants. Philipps-Universität Marburg Marburg Deutschhausstraße 9, 35037 Marburg 2019 2019-12-22 2020-01-18 Text article urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0003-2019-235-80874 eng 2714728-9 13 1 https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/article/download/8087/8046 10.17192/meta.2019.13.8087 https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/2019/235/8087 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0