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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... function of ritual , namely the cre- ation of solidarity , and points out that " de facto the very act of turning away from the human has an eminently social function . " 3. See A. Tzanetou's introduction to this volume . 4. Goff 2004 ...
... function . There has been no scholarly agreement on the function or meaning of this strange rite.49 But the etiological myth supplied by our sole source for the rite suggests that it functioned in part as a ritual response to doubtful ...
... function of the goddesses ' protection of new mothers and not as evidence of a healing function : see note 15 below ; pace Forsén and Sironen 1991 , 178. Cf. also T. Price 1978 , 149 . 14. As in the famous miracle inscriptions from ...
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CRITICAL | 3 |
Sources and Methodology | 17 |
THE SCANDAL OF WOMENS RITUAL | 29 |
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