Finding Persephone: Women's Rituals in the Ancient MediterraneanMaryline G. Parca, Angeliki Tzanetou Indiana University Press, 2007 - 327 strán (strany) Drawing upon the latest research in gender studies, history of religion, feminism, ritual theory, performance, anthropology, archaeology, and art history, Finding Persephone investigates the ways in which the religious lives and ritual practices of women in Greek and Roman antiquity helped shape their social and civic identity. Barred from participating in many public arenas, women asserted their presence by performing rituals at festivals and presiding over rites associated with life passages and healing. The essays in this lively and timely volume reveal the central place of women in the religious and ritual practices of the societies of the ancient Mediterranean. Readers interested in religion, women's studies, and classical antiquity will find a unique exploration of the nature and character of women's autonomy within the religious sphere and a full account of women's agency in the public domain. |
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... allowed men's societies to take over , with the result that men excluded women from all but the most rudimentary ritual knowledge ( Goheen 1996 , 31 , 59 ) . In this example , as in so many others , both men and women buy into the ...
... allowed.23 The Vestals were famously chaste ; their aristocratic lineage and their age at induction , between six and ten years , essentially necessitated the virginal status that they were required to maintain for the duration of their ...
... allowed to coexist with the emergent way of Christ the Lord ( Gent . 26 ) . In order for Christ to be- come all - powerful ( pantokrator ) , the goddesses must cede to him the power they once exercised in the sexual sphere of girls ...
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CRITICAL | 3 |
Sources and Methodology | 17 |
THE SCANDAL OF WOMENS RITUAL | 29 |
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