Christianizing Egypt (inbunden)
Fler böcker inom
Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Serie
Martin Classical Lectures
Antal sidor
336
Utgivningsdatum
2017-12-05
Förlag
Princeton University Press
Dimensioner
239 x 160 x 33 mm
Vikt
704 g
ISBN
9780691176970

Christianizing Egypt

Syncretism and Local Worlds in Late Antiquity

av David Frankfurter
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2017-12-05
414
Köp
Spara som favorit
  • Skickas från oss inom 7-10 vardagar.
  • Fri frakt över 249 kr för privatkunder i Sverige.
Finns även som
Visa alla 2 format & utgåvor
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.
Visa hela texten

Passar bra ihop

  1. Christianizing Egypt
  2. +
  3. Magic, Charisma and Violence in Late Antiquity

De som köpt den här boken har ofta också köpt Magic, Charisma and Violence in Late Antiquity av David Frankfurter (inbunden).

Köp båda 2 för 2062 kr

Kundrecensioner

Har du läst boken? Sätt ditt betyg »

Fler böcker av David Frankfurter

Visa alla böcker av David Frankfurter »

Övrig information

David Frankfurter is professor of religion at Boston University and a scholar of early Christianity whose specialties include apocalyptic literature, magical texts, demonology, popular religion, and Egypt in the Roman and late antique periods. He is the author of Religion in Roman Egypt: Assimilation and Resistance and Evil Incarnate: Rumors of Demonic Conspiracy and Satanic Abuse in History (both Princeton). Each won Awards for Excellence in the Study of Religion from the American Academy of Religion.

Du kanske gillar