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Exploring Religion in Ancient Egypt Stephen Quirke (University College London, UK)

Exploring Religion in Ancient Egypt By Stephen Quirke (University College London, UK)

Exploring Religion in Ancient Egypt by Stephen Quirke (University College London, UK)

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Exploring Religion in Ancient Egypt offers a stimulating overview of the study of ancient Egyptian religion by examining research drawn from beyond the customary boundaries of Egyptology and shedding new light on entrenched assumptions. .

Exploring Religion in Ancient Egypt Summary

Exploring Religion in Ancient Egypt by Stephen Quirke (University College London, UK)

Exploring Religion in Ancient Egypt offers a stimulating overview of the study of ancient Egyptian religion by examining research drawn from beyond the customary boundaries of Egyptology and shedding new light on entrenched assumptions.

  • Discusses the evolution of religion in ancient Egypt a belief system that endured for 3,000 years
  • Dispels several modern preconceptions about ancient Egyptian religious practices
  • Reveals how people in ancient Egypt struggled to secure well-being in the present life and the afterlife

Exploring Religion in Ancient Egypt Reviews

This book provides a new and rather different view of religious practice amongst the ancient Egyptians, drawing on an extensive range of texts, artefacts, contextual information, and anthropological approaches from outside Egypt. (Ancient Egypt, 1 April 2015)

About Stephen Quirke (University College London, UK)

Stephen Quirke is Professor of Egyptology in the Institute for Archaeology at University College London, and Curator at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology. His books include The Cult of Ra: Sun-Worship in Ancient Egypt (2001), Egyptian Literature 1800 BC: Questions and Readings (2004), and Lahun: A Town in Egypt 1800 BC, and the History of its Landscape (2005).

Table of Contents

Preface vi

1 Belief without a Book 1

2 Finding the Sacred in Space and Time 38

3 Creating Sacred Space and Time: Temple Architecture and Festival 80

4 Chaos and Life: Forces of Creation and Destruction 110

5 Being Good: Doing, Saying, and Making Good Possible 150

6 Being Well 177

7 Attaining Eternal Life: Sustenance and Transformation 201

Bibliography 238

Index 256

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GOR007013981
9781444332001
1444332007
Exploring Religion in Ancient Egypt by Stephen Quirke (University College London, UK)
Stephen Quirke (University College London, UK)
Blackwell Ancient Religions
Used - Very Good
Paperback
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
2014-11-28
288
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