El-Sayed El-Aswad

Religion and the Invisible World (eBook, ePUB)

Sanctity and Spiritual Transformation in Egypt from Pharaonic Times to the Present

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A broad critical history of the transformation of religious thought in Egypt from ancient to modern periods

When a civilization disappears, its heritage does not vanish. It survives in different potentially hybrid forms and becomes part of the legacy of humanity. Religion and the Invisible World is a broad survey of the development and transformation of interrelated forms of invisibility, sanctity, and religious beliefs and rituals in Egypt.

Drawing on forty years of research as an anthropologist, historian, and Egyptologist, el-Sayed el-Aswad shows how concepts of sacredness and invisibility have been core elements in the spiritual transformations in Egypt as embodied in the early pharaonic religion, Egyptian-Hellenistic religion, Christianity, and Islam, and how these practices of spirituality and cosmology cut across many divides of ethnicity, gender, region, religion, language, and social class. He draws on available prior ethnographies and descriptions pointing to the "invisible" world in Egyptian villages and urban settings, including dreams, rituals, trance, bodily practices, and what a century ago were called "survivals."

By focusing on concepts of invisibility and sanctity, this book provides a holistic understanding of the similarities and differences between religious beliefs and rituals that have existed in different historical epochs in Egypt from the Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms to the contemporary world-a span of five thousand years.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Random House South Africa
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781649033710
• Artikelnr.: 73512327

Autorenporträt

el-Sayed el-Aswad has taught at Wayne State University, Tanta University, Bahrain University and United Arab Emirates University. He is currently a member of editorial advisory boards of the Digest of Middle East Studies (DOMES), Muslims in Global Societies Series, Journal of Social Sciences (Kuwait University), Tabsir: Insight on Islam and the Middle East, CyberOrient, International Journal of Islam, Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT. He received his PhD from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and has published widely in both Arabic and English including Religion and Folk Cosmology and Muslim Worldviews and Everyday Lives.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Research Methods
3. Religion, the Invisible World, and Sanctity in Historical Perspective
4. Polytheism and Monotheism
5. Egyptian Religion and Hellenistic Greek and Roman Cultures
6. Osirian Religion and Christianity
7. Islam in Egypt
8. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index