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Voices of the Ritual: Devotion to Female Saints and Shrines in the Holy Land

by Nurit Stadler (associate Professor, Associate Professor, The Hebrew University Of Jerusalem)

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 15.3 x 23.7 x 2.3 cm

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For those interested in female spirituality and rituals

Examines rituals that assert religious minorities’ rights

You will gain insight into faith amid conflict and culture

Voices of the Ritual explores female saints' rituals in the Holy Land.

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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.
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  • Author

    Nurit Stadler (associate Professor, Associate Professor, The Hebrew University Of Jerusalem)

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    June 2020

  • Weight

    477g

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 23.7 x 2.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780197501306

  • ISBN-10

    0197501303

  • Eden Code

    5190629

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