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 social and creative 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 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 with
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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