Traditional Egyptian Religion and Its Hellenization
A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2022) | Viewed by 808
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are requesting papers that deal with the Hellenization of traditional Egyptian religious thought, artifacts, and practices. By Hellenization, we mean the use of Greek language by non-Greeks and the translation of native texts, the adoption of Greek cultural mores, and religious syncretism in iconography, mythic speculation, ritual practice, and material artifacts. We understand Hellenization as a process not necessarily imposed by the hegemonic culture on a passive non-Hellenic culture, but rather as a process in which both the original carriers of Hellenism as well as its recipients have the agency to negotiate social status, create new meaning, and engage with the cultural canon of Hellenism. In turn, the recipients also become Hellenizers. However, we are also interested in the opposition to this process, in those who see their culture, status, and religion threatened by the foreign cultural idiom.
Sources may include texts, material artifacts, and iconography, but we also invite contributions dealing with larger issues such as the role of education in Hellenization, the degree of Hellenization in the Egyptian priesthoods, or the choice of language in ritual. Theoretical matters are most welcome, for example, the conceptualization of “syncretism” or the efficacy of ritual.
The Special Issue invites contributors to consider, for example:
- The participation of Egyptian priests in Greek culture and religion;
- Interpretatio graeca, interpretatio aegyptiaca;
- The construction of “Greekness” and “Egyptianness”;
- The concept of “syncretism”, or interaction between Egyptian and Greek religion;
- Cultural hegemony and subaltern studies; Egyptians “talking back” to Greek and Roman power;
- The concept of “stereotype appropriation”;
- Egyptian wisdom, Greek philosophy, and their interaction;
- Efficacy and language in rituals, and the concept of “magic”;
- Egyptian religion in Greek literature;
- Religion, language, and culture in education.
Dr. Christian Bull
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Hellenization
- traditional Egyptian religion
- ancient religion
- syncretism
- religion and language
- iconography
- materiality of religion
- religion and culture
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