Women as ritual experts : the religious lives of elderly Jewish women in Jerusalem
This study reveals how women in gender-segregated religions such as Orthodox Judaism develop their own autonomous religious sphere and activities that sacralize female roles. The author investigates the strategies that uneducated women have used to develop their own traditions
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2023
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Edition: | 1st Oxford University Press paperback ed |
Series: | Oxford scholarship online
Publications of the American Folklore Society New series. |
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