Perspectives on Lived Religion
Subtitle: Practices Transmission Landscape
Publisher: Sidestone Press
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9789088907920
Subjects: Religion
Description: "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" -- page 4 of cover.