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Exploring Religion in Ancient Egypt

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Quirke, Stephen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2014.
Colección:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Intro -- Exploring Religion in Ancient Egypt -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Belief without a Book -- Word Worlds: Ancient and Modern -- Religion? -- Modern study of ancient worlds -- Three hurdles -- An ancient Egyptian definition of religion? The composition the King as Priest of the Sun -- Using written sources in context -- Language and politics -- Applying critical theory to Egyptology -- Future -- Elementals and Sources -- Landscape forces and resources -- Town and countryside -- Time-space blocks: ancient egypt as a chain of ecologies 
505 8 |a The time of kemet: dynasties and periods -- Preservation: geological and historical factors -- Beyond written sources: mudbrick architecture -- Ancient practice and modern prejudice in distinguishing elite and popular religion -- Suspending assumptions -- Netjeru deities: names and forms -- Evolutionary readings of ancient images -- Ancient and modern multiplication of forms of netjeru -- Visual forms as poetic metaphors -- Fission and fusion in names of netjeru -- Ancient descriptions of netjeru: hymns and narratives -- Instituting sacred space: the question of priesthood 
505 8 |a Checklist on assumptions -- Chapter 2 Finding the Sacred in Space and Time -- Holiness: Absolute or Relative -- The human body -- Living human geography: case-studies -- Chapter 3 Creating Sacred Space and Time: Temple Architecture and Festival -- Formalizing Sacred Space: For Offerings -- Range of different architectural types/engagements with ground -- Recipients of offerings -- Daily offering rituals -- Staff in offering spaces -- Kingship, temple offerings, and temple staff: in practice -- Kingship, initiation, and holders of sacred knowledge 
505 8 |a Formalizing Sacred Time: Festival, Feast, and Foundation -- Festival: not necessarily carnival -- Festivals at the lahun kingship temple (1800 bc) -- Festival lists in monumental inscriptions -- Offerings at festivals: written evidence -- Feasting and offering in the archaeological record -- Founding a temple -- Chapter 4 Chaos and Life: Forces of Creation and Destruction -- Introduction -- Chaos and life: identifying and assessing evidence -- Myth as Speech in Religion -- Mythic thinking -- The myth debate in Egyptology -- Learning from storytelling: the only option? 
505 8 |a Learning from schemata information blocks? -- The weight of kingship in ancient Egyptian compositions -- Constellations Outside Writing -- Evidence beyond words and images? -- Principles, forces, and materials -- Small-scale carving as a widespread source of imagery -- Relations of fertility: movements of seasons, flood, and the return of the distant goddess -- Relations of physical regeneration from immobility: masculine desert, Min and Amun -- Sailings of the Sun -- Trusting the ferryman? Aggression and defense: fauna of danger and disorder -- Seth: animal fusion 
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