Her Share of the Blessings - Women s Religions Among Pagans, Jews, Christians in Greco Roman

Zusatztext should serve as a fine stimulus to further study in this important and controversial area Informationen zum Autor Ross Shepard Kraemer is Adjunct Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. The editor of Maenads, Martyrs, Matrons, Monastics: A Sourcebook on Women's Religions in the Greco-Roman World (1988), she is currently writing a book on Jewish women in the Greco-Roman Diaspora, to be published by Oxford. Klappentext In this pathbreaking volume, Kraemer provides the first comprehensive look at women's religions in Greco-Roman antiquity, vividly recreating the religious lives of early Christian, Jewish, and pagan women. She offers many fascinating examples, and in every case, reveals the connections between the social constraints under which women lived and their religious beliefs and practices. Zusammenfassung The first comprehensive look at women's religions in Greco-Roman antiquity, this book vividly recreates the religious lives of early Christian, Jewish, and pagan women based on epitaphs and public inscriptions, letters and personal documents, references in literary works, and feminist and anthropological studies.

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• Authors: Ross Shepard Kraemer, Ross Shepard (Adjunct Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Fellow at the Center of Judaic Studies Kraemer
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.01.1994
• EAN: 9780195086706
• ISBN: 978-0-19-508670-6
• No. of pages: 286
• Series: Oxford Paperbacks; Oxford Paperbacks
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > History; RELIGION / Spirituality, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, RELIGION / History, Ancient Greece, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Women, RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies, Spirituality & religious experience, History of Religion, Ancient Rome, Social and cultural history, Gender studies: women, Spirituality and religious experience, Gender studies: women and girls