@inbook{7a3cf8f1f3c743b3958d2b53dbbe5cce,
title = "Men and gods: divinities{\textquoteright} cult within household religion in ancient Egypt",
abstract = "In ancient Egypt the relationship between believers and their deities, a bilateral relationship in which the believer made offerings and paid the due respect to the gods expecting from them help and protection, is mainly conceived within the framework of the religious phenomenon known as personal piety, occurring from the New Kingdom onwards. Household religion, the set of religious practices that took place at home, usually understood as an expression of Egyptian personal piety, is a possible path to a deeper understanding of this relationship. Resorting to a set of material sources found in various settlements in ancient Egypt that attest that gods were present in houses, it is possible to essay a characterisation of the divinities{\textquoteright} cult in a domestic context. Thus, the aim of this text is to use the textual sources to understand the factors that ground the relationship between men and gods and the material vestiges found at homes to identify which gods were present in Egyptian houses, how they were worshiped and also since when.",
keywords = "Ancient Egypt, Household religion, Divinities{\textquoteright} cult, Material sources, Personal piety",
author = "Susana Mota",
note = "UIDB/04666/2020 UIDP/04666/2020 ; 8th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF EGYPTOLOGISTS (CECE 8): “Egypt 2017: Perspectives of Research”, CHAM – FCSH - Nova University of Lisbon/ Calouste Gulbenkian Fondation/ Museum of Archaeology of Lisbon, June 26 - July 1, 2017., CECE 8 ; Conference date: 26-06-2017 Through 01-07-2017",
year = "2020",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-447-11458-5",
series = "Travaux de L{\textquoteright}institut des Cultures M{\'e}diterran{\'e}ennes et Orientales de L{\textquoteright}acad{\'e}mie Polonaise des Sciences",
publisher = "Harrassowitz Verlag",
pages = "153--166",
editor = "Lopes, {Mari Helena Trindade} and Popielska-Grzybowska, {Joanna } and Jadwiga Iwaszczuk and Pereira, {Ronaldo Guilherme Gurgel }",
booktitle = "Ancient Egypt 2017",
}