Material culture and women's religious experience in antiquity : an interdisciplinary symposium / edited by Mark D. Ellison, Catherine Gines Taylor, and Carolyn Osiek.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ellison, Mark D., editor.

Gines Taylor, Catherine, editor.

Osiek, Carolyn, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women and religion--History--Sources.

Women and religion.

Material culture.

History.

Genre:

History.

Sources.

Physical Description:

xv, 345 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, [2021]

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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Between the Holy and the Ordinary: Women's Lives in Early Christianity / Carolyn Osiek

2. Transferring and Transforming Religious Identity Abroad: The Personal Adornment of an Egyptian Woman in Canaan / Krystal V. L. Pierce

3. Besieged Maternity: Reading Textual Cannibalism in the Hebrew Bible through Material Culture / Susannah M. Larry

4. Material Expression and Mantic Performance: An Examination of Women's Religious Experience at the Time of Josiah / Amanda Colleen Brown

5. "Part of the Same Miracle": Women and Visual Art in the Dura Europos Synagogue / Sarah E. G. Fein

6. Female Experience at the Tomb: Ritual Commemoration and Sarcophagus Imagery / Sarah Madole Lewis

7. Assessing the Roles of Women in New Syrian Funerary Reliefs in Japanese Collections / Lincoln H. Blumell

8. Foreseeing the Divine Bridal Chamber: A Household of Mosaics from Shahba-Philippopolis / Catherine Gines Taylor

9. Reimagining and Reimaging Eve in Early Christianity / Mark D. Ellison

10. Female Materialities at the Altar: Mary's Priestly Motherhood and Women's Eucharistic Experience in Late Antique and Byzantine Churches / Maria Evangelatou

11. Rings on Her Fingers: Merovingian Rings and Religion in Late Antiquity / Isabel Moreira.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Material culture and women's religious experience in antiquity

ISBN:

9781793611932

1793611939

OCLC:

1263792976

Publisher Number:

99988764398