Book section
Popular religion (Volksreligion)
- Abstract:
- “Popular religion” may be defined in the broadest sense as the traditional and changing beliefs and customs of the general Egyptian population of any social class that related to a world beyond the straightforwardly pragmatic—beliefs that were neither static nor uniform across regions or social groups. We prefer a broad definition and characterization along these lines, as well as the term “popular religion” (synonymous with “private religion”), to more circumscribed phrases such as “domestic religion”, “folk religion”, and “personal religion”, since these might limit investigation to a particular context, group, or individual. Popular religion includes a range of practices and beliefs, some of which overlap with phenomena of “personal piety (persönliche Frömmigkeit)” (Luiselli, this volume). Moreover, no neat distinction can be made between popular religion and magic, which was integral to religion as a whole, both conceptually and in practice (Roeder, this volume), and must be included in any account.
- Publication status:
- Submitted
- Peer review status:
- Reviewed (other)
Actions
- Publisher:
- Brill Publishers
- Host title:
- Handbuch der altägyptischen Religion
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-11-30
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- Deposit date:
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2017-11-30
Terms of use
- Copyright holder:
- Waraksa and Baines
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- © Waraksa and Baines 2017. This is a pre-print version of a book chapter submitted for inclusion in Handbuch der altägyptischen Religion, forthcoming from Brill.
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