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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.

Christianity and other religions --- Syncretism (Religion) --- Eclecticism (Religion) --- Religious syncretism --- Unionism (Religion) --- Religion --- Religions --- Egyptian. --- Egypt --- 027 <32> --- 027 <32> Algemene bibliotheken--Oud-Egypte --- Algemene bibliotheken--Oud-Egypte --- Egyptian --- Christianity and other religions - Egyptian. --- Syncretism (Religion) - Egypt. --- Egypte --- Christianisme --- Egypt - Religion - 332 B.C.-640 A.D.

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This exploration of cultural resilience examines the complex fate of classical Egyptian religion during the centuries from the period when Christianity first made its appearance in Egypt to when it became the region's dominant religion (roughly 100 to 600 C.E. Taking into account the full range of witnesses to continuing native piety--from papyri and saints' lives to archaeology and terracotta figurines--and drawing on anthropological studies of folk religion, David Frankfurter argues that the religion of Pharonic Egypt did not die out as early as has been supposed but was instead relegated from political centers to village and home, where it continued a vigorous existence for centuries. In analyzing the fate of the Egyptian oracle and of the priesthoods, the function of magical texts, and the dynamics of domestic cults, Frankfurter describes how an ancient culture maintained itself while also being transformed through influences such as Hellenism, Roman government, and Christian dominance. Recognizing the special characteristics of Egypt, which differentiated it from the other Mediterranean cultures that were undergoing simultaneous social and political changes, he departs from the traditional "decline of paganism/triumph of Christianity" model most often used to describe the Roman period. By revealing late Egyptian religion in its Egyptian historical context, he moves us away from scenarios of Christian triumph and shows us how long and how energetically pagan worship survived.

Egyptische godsdienst. --- Vroege christendom. --- Egypte. --- Egyptian --- Religion égyptienne --- -200.932 --- -Egyptian --- Religion History Egypt --- Religion égyptienne --- 299.31 --- Egypt --- -Christianity and other religions --- Christianity --- Christianity and other religions --- Syncretism (Christianity) --- 299.31 Godsdiensten van de Oude Egyptenaren --- Godsdiensten van de Oude Egyptenaren --- Religion --- Relations --- History --- 200.932 --- Christianisme --- Egypte --- 332 B.C.-638 A.D. --- Egypt - Religion - 332 B.C.-640 A.D. --- Christianity and other religions - Egyptian. --- RELIGION / History. --- Abydos. --- Ammianus Marcellinus. --- Apis bull. --- Atripe. --- Bes. --- Blemmyes. --- Canopus (Delta). --- Edfu. --- Eunapius. --- Gesios. --- Harpocrates. --- Hermetica. --- Herodotus. --- Horus. --- Jews and Judaism. --- John of Lycopolis. --- Libanius of Antioch. --- Lucian. --- Mandulis. --- Manichaeism. --- Min (Pan). --- Osiris. --- Paphnuti. --- Petbe. --- Plutarch. --- Re-Harmachis. --- Rufinus. --- Seth (Typhon). --- Syria. --- amulets. --- demons and demonology. --- domestic religion. --- exorcism. --- festivals. --- hagiography. --- healing and healers. --- naoi. --- oracles. --- terracotta figurines.