TY - BOOK ID - 14469490 TI - Following Osiris : Perspectives on the Osirian afterlife from four millenia PY - 2017 SN - 9780199582228 019958222X 0191747459 0191089753 PB - Corby Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Osiris (Egyptian deity) KW - Future life KW - Osiris (Divinité égyptienne) KW - Vie future KW - Egypt KW - Egypte KW - Religion. KW - Religion KW - Future life. KW - Afterlife KW - Eternal life KW - Life, Future KW - Life after death KW - Eschatology KW - Eternity KW - Immortality KW - Near-death experiences KW - Religious aspects KW - Osiris KW - Usiris KW - Wsjr KW - Asar KW - Asari KW - Aser KW - Ausar KW - Ausir KW - Wesir KW - Usir KW - Usire KW - Ausare KW - أوزيريس KW - Ūzīrīs KW - Асірыс KW - Азірыс KW - Asirys KW - Azirys KW - Озирис KW - Узирис KW - Oziris KW - Usirev KW - Οσιρις KW - Ούζιρις KW - Oyziris KW - Αζάρ KW - Azar KW - Οζιρις KW - Ουζάρ KW - Oyzar KW - Ουεζίρ KW - Oyezir KW - Ουζαρέ KW - Oyzare KW - Oziriso KW - 오시리스 KW - Osirisŭ KW - Osiride KW - Usiride KW - Osiri KW - אוסיריס KW - Ozīriss KW - Ozyris KW - Usiri KW - Ozirisz KW - オシリス KW - Oshirisu KW - Isir KW - Iszir KW - Осирис KW - Осіріс KW - Озіріс KW - Osiris (Divinité égyptienne) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14469490 AB - Osiris, god of the dead, was one of ancient Egypt's most important deities. The earliest secure evidence for belief in him dates back to the fifth dynasty (c.2494-2345BC), but he continued to be worshipped until the fifth century AD. 'Following Osiris' is concerned with ancient Egyptian conceptions of the relationship between Osiris and the deceased, or what might be called the Osirian afterlife, asking what the nature of this relationship was and what the prerequisites were for enjoying its benefits. It does not seek to provide a continuous or comprehensive account of Egyptian ideas on this subject, but rather focuses on five distinct periods in their development, spread over four millennia. The periods in question are ones in which significant changes in Egyptian ideas about Osiris and the dead are known to have occurred or where it has been argued that they did, as Egyptian aspirations for the Osirian afterlife took time to coalesce and reach their fullest form of expression. An important aim of the book is to investigate when and why such changes happened, treating religious belief as a dynamic rather than a static phenomenon and tracing the key stages in the development of these aspirations, from their origin to their demise, while illustrating how they are reflected in the textual and archaeological records. In doing so, it opens up broader issues for exploration and draws meaningful cross-cultural comparisons to ask, for instance, how different societies regard death and the dead, why people convert from one religion to another, and why they abandon belief in a god or gods altogether. ER -