Priestess, Mother, Sacred Sister
Religions Dominated by Women
ISBN13: 9780195104677ISBN10: 0195104676
Paperback,
352 pages
Dec 1995,
In Stock
Price:
$39.99 (04)
Winner of the American Academy of Religion's Award for Excellence in the Analytical Descriptive Studies
Description
In this fascinating and pathbreaking work, Susan Starr Sered uncovers, describes, and analyzes religions scattered throughout the world in which women are both the majority of leaders and the majority of participants. How are these women's religions different from those dominated by men? What can we learn from them about the ways in which women experience and interpret the supernatural? How do women construct religion? Looking for common threads linking groups as diverse as the Sande secret societies of West Africa, Matrilineal Spirit cults of Northern Thailand, Christian Science, and the Feminist Spirituality movement, Sered asks whether there is anything particularly "womanly" about women's religions. Offering a new understanding of the role gender plays in determining how individuals grapple with the ultimate conditions of existence, Priestess, Mother, Sacred Sister not only highlights the profound differences between men and women, but the equally important ways in which we are all alike.Reviews
"Marvellous....Fascinating and insightful."--Ross Shepard Kraemer, author of Her Share of the Blessings
Product Details
352 pages; 19 halftones; 6-1/8 x 9-1/4; ISBN13: 978-0-19-510467-7ISBN10: 0-19-510467-6About the Author(s)
Susan Starr Sered is the author of Women as Ritual Experts , and is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
