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Christianizing Egypt

- Syncretism and Local Worlds in Late Antiquity
Af: David Frankfurter Engelsk Paperback

Christianizing Egypt

- Syncretism and Local Worlds in Late Antiquity
Af: David Frankfurter Engelsk Paperback
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How does a culture become Christian, especially one that is heir to such ancient traditions and spectacular monuments as Egypt? This book offers a new model for envisioning the process of Christianization by looking at the construction of Christianity in the various social and creative worlds active in Egyptian culture during late antiquity. As David Frankfurter shows, members of these different social and creative worlds came to create different forms of Christianity according to their specific interests, their traditional idioms, and their sense of what the religion could offer. Reintroducing the term “syncretism” for the inevitable and continuous process by which a religion is acculturated, the book addresses the various formations of Egyptian Christianity that developed in the domestic sphere, the worlds of holy men and saints’ shrines, the work of craftsmen and artisans, the culture of monastic scribes, and the reimagination of the landscape itself, through processions, architecture, and the potent remains of the past. Drawing on sermons and magical texts, saints’ lives and figurines, letters and amulets, and comparisons with Christianization elsewhere in the Roman empire and beyond, Christianizing Egypt reconceives religious change—from the “conversion” of hearts and minds to the selective incorporation and application of strategies for protection, authority, and efficacy, and for imagining the environment.
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How does a culture become Christian, especially one that is heir to such ancient traditions and spectacular monuments as Egypt? This book offers a new model for envisioning the process of Christianization by looking at the construction of Christianity in the various social and creative worlds active in Egyptian culture during late antiquity. As David Frankfurter shows, members of these different social and creative worlds came to create different forms of Christianity according to their specific interests, their traditional idioms, and their sense of what the religion could offer. Reintroducing the term “syncretism” for the inevitable and continuous process by which a religion is acculturated, the book addresses the various formations of Egyptian Christianity that developed in the domestic sphere, the worlds of holy men and saints’ shrines, the work of craftsmen and artisans, the culture of monastic scribes, and the reimagination of the landscape itself, through processions, architecture, and the potent remains of the past. Drawing on sermons and magical texts, saints’ lives and figurines, letters and amulets, and comparisons with Christianization elsewhere in the Roman empire and beyond, Christianizing Egypt reconceives religious change—from the “conversion” of hearts and minds to the selective incorporation and application of strategies for protection, authority, and efficacy, and for imagining the environment.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 336
ISBN-13: 9780691216782
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0691216789
Kategori: Religionshistorie
Udg. Dato: 8 jun 2021
Længde: 22mm
Bredde: 234mm
Højde: 155mm
Forlag: Princeton University Press
Oplagsdato: 8 jun 2021
Forfatter(e): David Frankfurter
Forfatter(e) David Frankfurter

Kategori Religionshistorie

ISBN-13 9780691216782

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 336

Udgave

Længde 22mm

Bredde 234mm

Højde 155mm

Udg. Dato 8 jun 2021

Oplagsdato 8 jun 2021

Forlag Princeton University Press