Christianizing Egypt: syncretism and local worlds in late antiquity
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 worlds came to create different forms of Christianity according to their specific interests, their t…
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- Full title :Christianizing Egypt : syncretism and local worlds in late antiquity / David Frankfurter.
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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 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 creative 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 to 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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- Publication Date:2018
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Princeton University Press
- Place of Publication:Princeton
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2018
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xix, 314 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : : illustrations (some color), map
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781400888009, 140088800X
- oclc:on1030004517
- LC Classification:BL2455
- Dewey Decimal:200.932/09015
Table of Contents
Remodeling the Christianization of Egypt -- Domestic devotion and religious change : traditions of the domestic sphere -- Controller of demons, dispenser of blessings : traditions of the holy man as craftsman of local Christianity -- A site of blessings, dreams, and wonders : traditions of the saint's shrine -- The magic of craft : traditions of the workshop and the construction of efficacy -- Scribality and syncretism : traditions of writing and the book -- Whispering spirits, holy processions : traditions of the Egyptian landscape -- Afterword.
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