Reviewed Work: Christianizing Egypt. Syncretism and Local Worlds in Late Antiquity by David Frankfurter

Authors

Dana Robinson, George Fox UniversityFollow

Document Type

Book Review

Publication Date

2019

Abstract

David Frankfurter’s newest work takes a fresh look at the landscape of local religious activity in late antique Egypt. Frankfurter expands on the theoretical model he offered in Religion in Roman Egypt (Princeton, 1998), which conceptualized the late antique transformations of Egyptian religion as a shift in idiom and social location, from large temple centers to households and local experts, rather than a decline in traditional piety. Here he changes his perspective from the continuity of traditional religion into the Christian era, to examine the creation of a local and regional Christianity in the fifth and sixth centuries.

Comments

Originally published in Church History and Religious Culture in 2019

https://www.jstor.org/stable/27077344

Recommended Citation

Robinson, Dana, "Reviewed Work: Christianizing Egypt. Syncretism and Local Worlds in Late Antiquity by David Frankfurter" (2019). Faculty Publications - Department of History and Politics. 120.
https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/hist_fac/120