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.
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