The Spaces of Domestic Religion in Late Antique Egypt
Domestic religion-or family religion, or household religion-should be considered as a cluster of concerns and orientations, not just “religion in the home.” More importantly, the ritual resolution of these concerns is typically pursued- by the agents of domestic religion (more often women)-in a vari...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2017
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Archiv für Religionsgeschichte
Year: 2017, Volume: 18/19, Issue: 1, Pages: 7-24 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Egypt (Antiquity)
/ Classical antiquity
/ Folk religion
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IxTheo Classification: | AF Geography of religion AG Religious life; material religion BC Ancient Orient; religion |
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Summary: | Domestic religion-or family religion, or household religion-should be considered as a cluster of concerns and orientations, not just “religion in the home.” More importantly, the ritual resolution of these concerns is typically pursued- by the agents of domestic religion (more often women)-in a variety of places, not just in the home: that is, the local environment and neighborhood and even further afield. For example, a pilgrimage shrine is not in itself a phenomenon of domestic religion; it is its own religious phenomenon. But it is in the nature of domestic religion to include that pilgrimage shrine as part of a “domestic” topography of ritual spaces. This is the kind of extra-domestic space that this paper addresses. |
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ISSN: | 1868-8888 |
Contains: | In: Archiv für Religionsgeschichte
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/arege-2016-0002 |