Daughters of Hecate - Women and Magic in the Ancient World

Informationen zum Autor Kimberly B. Stratton is an associate professor in the College of Humanities at Carleton University. She holds a B.A. in English and Religion from Barnard College, an M.T.S. from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in the history of religions in late antiquity from Columbia University. She has also studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research covers the fields of early Christianity, rabbinic Judaism, and Greco-Roman religion, focusing on the dynamics of identity formation, discourse, and social construction at the intersection of those ancient cultures.Dayna S. Kalleres is an associate professor in the Program for the Study of Religion and the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. She did her Ph.D. in program for the History of Early Christianity at Brown University; prior to that, she received a B.A. in Comparative Literature and Classics at Indiana University. Her research covers the fields of Greco-Roman Religions and Early to late antiqueChristianities; her focal interests include magic and religion, ritual studies, demonology and the urban sphere. Klappentext Daughters of Hecate presents a diverse collection of essays on the topic of women and magic in the ancient Mediterranean world. The book gathers investigations by leading scholars from the fields of Classics, Judaic Studies, and early Christianity, illuminating as well as interrogating the persistent associations of women with magic. Zusammenfassung Daughters of Hecate presents a diverse collection of essays on the topic of women and magic in the ancient Mediterranean world. The book gathers investigations by leading scholars from the fields of Classics, Judaic Studies, and early Christianity, illuminating as well as interrogating the persistent associations of women with magic.

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• Authors: Dayna S. Kalleres, Kalleres Dayna S., Kimberly B. Stratton, Kimberly B. (Associate Professor Stratton, Kimberly B./ Kalleres Stratton, Stratton Kimberly B.
• Assisted by: Dayna S. Kalleres (Editor), Kimberly B. Stratton (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.11.2014
• EAN: 9780195342703
• ISBN: 978-0-19-534270-3
• No. of pages: 552
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Self-tuition materials (general); Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Antike, Geschichte der Religion, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Witchcraft, RELIGION / Wicca, RELIGION / Christianity / History, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Magick Studies, New Age / Body, Mind & Spirit, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Magic, alchemy and hermetic thought, Magic, alchemy & hermetic thought