Jane Harrison’s Ritual Scholarship
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20065906 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mimi Winick (0000-0001-6092-2822, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Pages | 95-114 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Modernist Women Writers and Spirituality (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/978-1-137-53036-3_6 |
| OpenAlex | W2566231253 |
| ISBN | 9781137530363 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 16 |
This chapter argues that Jane Harrison’s writing on ancient Greek religion constitutes a modernist project to create a new version of a very old religious experience. Harrison took Victorian theories of religion centered on the decline of faith and reworked them to insist on, and celebrate, religion’s persistence into the twentieth century. Linking religion’s increasing prominence with that of women, she claimed a parallel between her present moment and the archaic Greek world of goddess worship she described in her classical studies. In these, Harrison further elaborated an understanding of religion grounded in ritual and mystical experience. Her scholarly books act as sacred texts of this feminist, post-theological religion, and in them scholarship itself comes to offer a peculiarly modern form of ritual practice
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |