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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... worship of Demeter was transformed into a new “ religious for- mation , ” as she puts it , that embraced men and women in the context of the Eleusinian Mysteries . Stehle explores the ways in which the worship- pers ' closeness to the ...
... worship of female goddesses such as Artemis , Eileithyia , and Aphrodite . In her essay on " women gods , " Gaca explicates the motives for Pauline and patristic antipathy to worship practices among the Greeks , particularly when the ...
... WORSHIP OF DIANA OF THE GROVE The worship of the goddess Diana evokes the primeval and primitive origins of early Roman ritual : the maiden goddess of the groves had one of her primary residences in the hauntingly evocative landscape of ...
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CRITICAL | 3 |
Sources and Methodology | 17 |
THE SCANDAL OF WOMENS RITUAL | 29 |
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