Religion in Roman Egypt

Assimilation and Resistance

David Frankfurter (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

336 Seiten

1998
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-02685-5 (ISBN)

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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 CE). 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 centres to village and home, where it continued a vigorous existence for centuries.

David Frankfurter is Associate Professor of History and Religious Studies at the University of New Hampshire. He is the author of Elijah in Upper Egypt: The Apocalypse of Elijah and Early Egyptian Christianity.

Reihe/Serie	Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
Zusatzinfo	1 Maps
Verlagsort	New Jersey
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	624 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	0-691-02685-8 / 0691026858
ISBN-13	978-0-691-02685-5 / 9780691026855
Zustand	Neuware