| Voices of the Ritual: Devotion to Female Saints and Shrines in the Holy Land Contributor(s): Stadler, Nurit (Author) |
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ISBN: 0197501303 ISBN-13: 9780197501306 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $123.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Theology - Religion | Comparative Religion - History | Middle East - General |
| Dewey: 203.509 |
| LCCN: 2019058655 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 9.3" (1.05 lbs) 216 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Voices of the Ritual analyzes the revival of rituals performed at female saint shrines in the Middle East. In the midst of turbulent political contention over land and borders, Nurit Stadler shows, religious minorities lay claim to space through rituals enacted at sacred spaces in the Holy Land. Using ethnographic analysis, Stadler explores the rise of these rituals, their focus on the body, female materiality, and their place in the Israeli-Palestinian landscape. Stadler examines the varied features of the practice and implications of the rituals, looking at themes of femininity and material experience. She considers the role of the body in rituals that represent the act of birth or the circle of life and that aim to foster an intimate connection between the female saint and her worshippers. Stadler underscores the political, cultural, and spatial elements of this practice, bringing attention to how religious minorities (Jews, Christians, Muslims, and Druze, among others) have utilized these rituals to assert their right to the land. Voices of the Ritual offers a valuable assessment of religious ritual practice that encrypts female themes into a landscape that has historically been defined by war and conflict. |
