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Exploring Religion in Ancient Egypt
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newark :
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,
2014.
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| Colección: | New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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?
- 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