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Religion in the ancient world, and ancient Egyptian religion in
particular, is often perceived as static, hierarchically organised,
and centred on priests, tombs, and temples. Engagement with
archaeological and textual evidence dispels these beguiling if
superficial narratives, however. Individuals and groups
continuously shaped their environments, and were shaped by them in
turn. This volume explores the ways in which this adaptation,
negotiation, and reconstruction of religious understandings took
place. The material results of these processes are termed 'cultural
geography'. The volume examines this 'cultural geography' through
the study of three vectors of religious agency: religious
practices, the transmission of texts and images, and the study of
religious landscapes. Bringing together papers by experts in a
variety of Egyptological disciplines and other fields of study,
this volume presents the results of an interdisciplinary workshop
held at the University of Leiden, 7-9 November 2018, kindly funded
by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) Vidi
Talent Scheme. The 16 papers presented here discuss the archaeology
of religion and religious practices, landscape archaeology and
'cultural geography', and the transmission and adaptation of texts
and images, across not only the history of Egypt from the Early
Dynastic to the Christian periods, but also in ancient Sudanese
archaeology, the Arabian peninsula, early and medieval
south-eastern Asia, and contemporary China.
Religion in the ancient world, and ancient Egyptian religion in
particular, is often perceived as static, hierarchically organised,
and centred on priests, tombs, and temples. Engagement with
archaeological and textual evidence dispels these beguiling if
superficial narratives, however. Individuals and groups
continuously shaped their environments, and were shaped by them in
turn. This volume explores the ways in which this adaptation,
negotiation, and reconstruction of religious understandings took
place. The material results of these processes are termed 'cultural
geography'. The volume examines this 'cultural geography' through
the study of three vectors of religious agency: religious
practices, the transmission of texts and images, and the study of
religious landscapes. Bringing together papers by experts in a
variety of Egyptological disciplines and other fields of study,
this volume presents the results of an interdisciplinary workshop
held at the University of Leiden, 7-9 November 2018, kindly funded
by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) Vidi
Talent Scheme. The 16 papers presented here discuss the archaeology
of religion and religious practices, landscape archaeology and
'cultural geography', and the transmission and adaptation of texts
and images, across not only the history of Egypt from the Early
Dynastic to the Christian periods, but also in ancient Sudanese
archaeology, the Arabian peninsula, early and medieval
south-eastern Asia, and contemporary China.
After having been held in the UK for the past 10 years, the 11th
edition of the annual Current Research in Egyptology (CRE) graduate
conference was held at Leiden University, The Netherlands in
January 2010. As always, the main aim of the conference was to
provide graduate and postgraduate students of Egyptology and
Egyptian archaeology with the opportunity to present their
research. The proceedings of this year's conference cover a wide
range of topics from the Predynastic Period to modern Egypt. The
papers reflect a similar variety in areas of research and
scientific approach, for example, by applying the linguistic
prototype theory to ancient Egyptian texts or by using an
ethnoarchaeological approach for the study of modern mud-brick
architecture. The topics covered include Egyptian religion, ranging
from the Coffin Texts to the decoration of temple walls in
Ptolemaic times, as well as sociological issues in the Middle and
New Kingdom. Other contributions focus on the study of the
chronology of the Middle Kingdom with the help of lunar ephemerides
or well-stratified radiocarbon data versus pottery data. In
summary, Proceedings of Current Research in Egyptology XI includes
19 selected papers on artefact studies, burial practices and
provisioning for the afterlife, economy and sociology, history and
chronological studies, linguistics, philology and religion.
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