Exploring Religion in Ancient Egypt (Blackwell Ancient Religions) - Softcover

Quirke, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1444332007 ISBN 13: 9781444332001

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014

Synopsis

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

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Review:

"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)

From the Back Cover:

Exploring Religion in Ancient Egypt presents an overview of the beliefs, sacred rituals, and religious practices of the people of Kemet - literally, "the Black Land" - whose Nile Valley population stretched from Aswan to the Mediterranean coast beginning from circa 3100 B.C.

Dispelling some of the dominant modern preconceptions about ancient Egyptian religion, author Stephen Quirke considers the evidence for ancient patterns of marking sacred space and time, and the verbal and visual imagery on creation and Ma`at - the expression of truth and balance, or "what is good," in the language of Kemet. Within these frameworks, Quirke reveals how people in ancient Egypt struggled to secure well-being in the present life as they prepared for the afterlife. Exploring Religion in Ancient Egypt offers illuminating insights into an ancient civilization whose complex series of religious beliefs and practices remain unique in the history of human religion.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1444332007
• ISBN 13: 9781444332001
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288