TY  - BOOK
AU  - Frankfurter,David
TI  - Christianizing Egypt: Syncretism and Local Worlds in Late Antiquity 
T2  - Martin Classical Lectures
SN  - 9780691176970
AV  - BL2455 .F736 2018
U1  - 200.932/09015 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Christianity and other religions
KW  - Egyptian
KW  - Syncretism (Religion)
KW  - Egypt
KW  - RELIGION / Christianity / History
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Acolyte
KW  - Amulet
KW  - Ancient Egypt
KW  - Ancient Egyptian deities
KW  - Apocalypse of Elijah
KW  - Apotropaic magic
KW  - Archaeology
KW  - Basilica
KW  - Burial
KW  - Caesarius of Arles
KW  - Cemetery
KW  - Ceremony
KW  - Christian art
KW  - Christian demonology
KW  - Christian media
KW  - Christian monasticism
KW  - Christian theology
KW  - Christian tradition
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Christianization
KW  - Clergy
KW  - Deity
KW  - Demonization
KW  - Demonology
KW  - Divination
KW  - Epigraphy
KW  - Exorcism
KW  - Figurine
KW  - God
KW  - Hagiography
KW  - Harpocrates
KW  - Heathenry (new religious movement)
KW  - Homily
KW  - Household
KW  - Iconography
KW  - Ideology
KW  - Image of God
KW  - Incense
KW  - Jews
KW  - John Chrysostom
KW  - Laity
KW  - Late Antiquity
KW  - Literature
KW  - Liturgy
KW  - Lord's Prayer
KW  - Magical texts
KW  - Mamre
KW  - Martin Classical Lectures
KW  - Martyr
KW  - Menouthis
KW  - Michael (archangel)
KW  - Modernity
KW  - Monastery
KW  - Monasticism
KW  - Mummy
KW  - Mural
KW  - Names of God in Judaism
KW  - Narrative
KW  - New Christian
KW  - Nomina sacra
KW  - Oberlin College
KW  - Orthodoxy
KW  - Oxyrhynchus
KW  - Paganism
KW  - Piety
KW  - Pottery
KW  - Prayer
KW  - Procession
KW  - Prophets of Christianity
KW  - Relic
KW  - Religion
KW  - Religious conversion
KW  - Religious identity
KW  - Religious order
KW  - Religious orientation
KW  - Religious text
KW  - Reuse
KW  - Rite
KW  - Roman Empire
KW  - Routledge
KW  - Saint
KW  - Sermon
KW  - Shai
KW  - Shenoute
KW  - Shrine
KW  - Stele
KW  - Syncretism
KW  - Terracotta
KW  - The Monastery
KW  - The Various
KW  - Theocracy
KW  - Tomb
KW  - Tradition
KW  - Upper Egypt
KW  - V
KW  - Veneration
KW  - Votive offering
KW  - Worship
KW  - Wreath
KW  - Writing
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; Chapter 1. Remodeling the Christianization of Egypt --; Chapter 2. Domestic Devotion and Religious Change --; Chapter 3. Controller of Demons, Dispenser of Blessings --; Chapter 4. A Site of Blessings, Dreams, and Wonders --; Chapter 5. The Magic of Craft --; Chapter 6. Scribality and Syncretism --; Chapter 7. Whispering Spirits, Holy Processions --; Afterword --; Bibliography --; Illustration Credits --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400888009?locatt=mode:legacy
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