Egyptian Pagans through Christian Eyes

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dc.contributor.advisorHolum, Kennethen_US
dc.contributor.authorJuliussen-Stevenson, Heather Annen_US
dc.contributor.departmentHistoryen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-22T06:00:48Z
dc.date.available2016-06-22T06:00:48Z
dc.date.issued2016en_US
dc.description.abstractConstruction of Christian identity in Egypt proceeded in pace with construction of the Egyptian pagan “Other” between the second and sixth centuries. Apologies, martyrdoms, apocalypses, histories, sermons, hagiographies, and magical texts provide several different vantage points from which to view the Christian construction of the Egyptian pagan “Other”: as the agent of anti-Christian violence, as an intellectual rival, as an object of anti-pagan violence, as an obstacle to salvation, and—perhaps most dangerously—as but another participant in a shared religious experience. The recent work of social scientists on identity, deviance, violence, social/cultural memory, and religiosity provides insight into the strategies by which construction of the “Other” was part of a larger project of fashioning a “proper” Christian religious domain.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M2D202
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/18304
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledAncient historyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledClassical studiesen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledReligious historyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledChristianen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledConversionen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledEgypten_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledPaganen_US
dc.titleEgyptian Pagans through Christian Eyesen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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