xix, 314 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm.

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1.Remodeling the Christianization of Egypt -- I.Overture -- II.Historical Setting -- III.The Problem of "Pagan Survivals" -- IV.Syncretism and Purification -- V.Agency, Gesture, and Landscape -- VI.Sites and Religious Worlds of Syncretism in Late Antique Egypt -- VII.Postscript on Comparison and the...

VI.Agents of the Domestic Sphere: Gender and Creative Independence -- VII.Conclusion -- 3.Controller of Demons, Dispenser of Blessings Traditions of the Holy Man as Craftsman of Local Christianity -- I.Introduction: Saints and Syncretism -- II.Implications of Classification: From "Saint" to "Regiona...

V.Individual Expressions: Imprecation, Contact, Votive -- VI.Divination -- VII.Possession and the Performance of Spirits and Saintly Power -- VIII.Conclusion -- 5.The Magic of Craft Traditions of the Workshop and the Construction of Efficacy -- I.Introduction: Art and Efficacy -- II.Workshops in Lat...

1.The Media of Amente in Late Antique Egypt -- 2.The Coptic Amente Mythology: Earlier Egyptian and Jewish Apocalyptic Traditions -- 3.Apocalyptic Interpretation in Egypt and the Integration of Egyptian Traditions -- VI.Conclusion -- 7.Whispering Spirits, Holy Processions Traditions of the Egyptian L...