ISBN:
9781793611949
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource ( xv, 345pages)
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Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Material Culture and Women's Religious Experience in Antiquity (Veranstaltung : 2019 : Provo, Utah) Material culture and women's religious experience in Antiquity
DDC:
200.82/0901
Keywords:
Material culture
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Antike
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Sachkultur
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Religiöse Erfahrung
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Frau
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Electronic books
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Konferenzschrift 2019
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Konferenzschrift 2019
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Frau
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Religion
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Antike
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
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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