Women as Ritual Experts

The Religious Lives of Elderly Jewish Women in Jerusalem

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4402977
AutoresDonna Shai (0000-0003-2218-4966, autor correspondente), Susan Starr Sered (0000-0002-5348-1624)
Ano1995
Volume86
Fascículo1/2
Páginas252
Data de publicação1995-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Jewish Quarterly Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0021-6682 • E-ISSN: 1553-0604
EditoraJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/1454850
OpenAlexW646689826
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas44

Women as Ritual Experts reveals how in gender segregated religions like Orthodox Judaism women develop their own autonomous religious sphere and activities that sacralize female roles. Until recently, this female world of religion has been all but invisible to both anthropologists and scholars of religion, who typically speak as though the male sphere of religion were the only definition of religion or the sacred. By exploring this separate sphere of women's religion and demonstrating its variety, depth, and dynamism, Susan Sered here attempts to expand the definition of religion, ritual and the sacred. Sered's research was conducted among uneducated, illiterate Kurdish women. She uncovers the strategies these women have used to circumvent the patriarchal institutions of Judaism, the techniques by which they have made their lives meaningful within an androcentric culture, and how they have developed their own `little tradition' within and parallel to the `great tradition' of Torah Judaism

Art · Judaism · Sociology · Theology · Women's Lives · Gender Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious studies