Religion in Roman Egypt: Assimilation and ResistancePrinceton University Press, 1998 - 314 pages 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. |
Table des matières
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | ix |
ABBREVIATIONS | xi |
The Armor of Horus | 3 |
Scope and Method | 5 |
12 The Problem of Egypt in Its Mediterranean Context | 11 |
13 Tracing the Continuity of Egyptian Religion in Late Antiquity | 15 |
14 Pressures and Traumas of the Late Empire | 23 |
From the PanMediterranean to the Local | 33 |
37 Localization and Continuity in Egyptian Religion | 143 |
Mutations of the Egyptian Oracle | 145 |
42 The Persistence of the Temple Oracle in the Roman Period | 153 |
43 New Egyptian Oracles of the Roman Period | 161 |
44 Mutations of the Oracle in the Late Roman Period | 179 |
45 Egyptian Oracles in the Roman Period | 196 |
Priest to Magician Evolving Modes of Religious Authority | 198 |
52 Resilient Social Roles | 204 |
Religion and Temples | 37 |
22 The Cult of the Nile as a Popular and an Institutional Phenomenon | 42 |
23 Healing Cults as a Nexus of Temple and Popular Piety | 46 |
24 Temple Festivals in Egyptian Life | 52 |
25 The Evolution of Religious Festivals | 58 |
26 Local Support of Temples | 65 |
27 Religious Patronage and Its Challenges in FifthCentury Atripe | 77 |
The Local Scope of Religious Belief | 97 |
32 The Places of Isis and the Names of Sobek | 98 |
33 The Persistence of Local Deities | 106 |
34 Cults of Protection | 111 |
35 Gods of Safe Fertility | 121 |
36 Domestic Religion | 131 |
53 Roman Hellenism and the Revaluation of Priestly Service | 217 |
The Scriptorium as Crucible of Religious Change | 238 |
62 Preservation and Syncretism | 241 |
63 The Holiness of Languages and the Evolution of Coptic Script | 248 |
64 From House of Life to Coptic Scriptorium | 257 |
Idiom Ideology and Iconoclasm A Prolegomenon | 265 |
71 Real Power | 267 |
72 Demons | 273 |
73 Rites of Demolition | 277 |
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