Material culture and women's religious experience in Antiquity: an interdisciplinary symposium
This collection of eleven new essays presents fresh, illuminating research by scholars who comparatively examine material, visual, and literary evidence to recover women's religious experiences, perspectives, and activities in antiquity-perspectives often missing or underrepresented in the lite...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Lanham
Lexington Books
2021
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| In: | Year: 2021 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Woman
/ Religion
/ Classical antiquity
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| Further subjects: | B
Conference program 2019 (Brigham Young University)
B Material Culture B Religious experience B Classical antiquity B Material popular culture B Electronic books B Woman |
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| Summary: | This collection of eleven new essays presents fresh, illuminating research by scholars who comparatively examine material, visual, and literary evidence to recover women's religious experiences, perspectives, and activities in antiquity-perspectives often missing or underrepresented in the literary record. Material Culture and Women's Religious Experience in Antiquity -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Between the Holy and the Ordinary: Women's Lives in Early Christianity -- 2 Transferring and Transforming Religious Identity Abroad: The Personal Adornment of an Egyptian Woman in Canaan -- 3 Besieged Maternity: Reading Textual Cannibalism in the Hebrew Bible through Material Culture -- 4 Material Expression and Mantic Performance: An Examination of Women's Religious Experience at the Time of Josiah -- 5 "Part of the Same Miracle": Women and Visual Art in the Dura Europos Synagogue -- 6 Female Experience at the Tomb: Ritual Commemoration and Sarcophagus Imagery -- 7 Assessing the Roles of Women in New Syrian Funerary Reliefs in Japanese Collections -- 8 Foreseeing the Divine Bridal Chamber: A Household of Mosaics from Shahba-Philippopolis -- 9 Reimagining and Reimaging Eve in Early Christianity -- 10 Female Materialities at the Altar: Mary's Priestly Motherhood and Women's Eucharistic Experience in Late Antique and Byzantine Churches -- 11 Rings on Her Fingers: Merovingian Rings and Religion in Late Antiquity -- Index -- About the Contributors. |
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| ISBN: | 1793611947 |