Daughters of Hecate (eBook, PDF)

Women and Magic in the Ancient World
Redaktion: Stratton, Kimberly B.; Kalleres, Dayna S.

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Produktbeschreibung

Daughters of Hecate unites for the first time research on the problem of gender and magic in three ancient Mediterranean societies: early Judaism, Christianity, and Graeco-Roman culture. The book illuminates the gendering of ancient magic by approaching the topic from three distinct disciplinary perspectives: literary stereotyping, the social application of magic discourse, and material culture. The authors probe the foundations of, processes, and motivations behind gendered stereotypes, beginning with Western culture's earliest associations of women and magic in the Bible and Homer's Odyssey. Daughters of Hecate provides a nuanced exploration of the topic while avoiding reductive approaches. In fact, the essays in this volume uncover complexities and counter-discourses that challenge, rather than reaffirm, many gendered stereotypes taken for granted and reified by most modern scholarship. By combining critical theoretical methods with research into literary and material evidence, Daughters of Hecate interrogates a false association that has persisted from antiquity, to early modern witch hunts, to the present day.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199711550
• Artikelnr.: 41523552

Autorenporträt

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 antique Christianities; her focal interests include magic and religion, ritual studies, demonology and the urban sphere.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* 1. Interrogating the Magic-Gender Connection - Kimberly B. Stratton
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* Part I. Fiction and Fantasy: Gendering Magic in Literature
* 2. From Goddess to Hag: The Greek and the Roman Witch in Classical
Literature - Barbette Stanley Spaeth
* 3. "The Most Worthy of Women is a Mistress of Magic": Women as
Witches and Ritual Practitioners in 1 Enoch and Rabbinic Sources -
Rebecca Lesses
* 4. Gendering Heavenly Secrets? Women, Angels, and the Problem of
Misogyny and "Magic" - Annette Yoshiko Reed
* 5. Magic, Abjection, and Gender in Roman Literature - Kimberly B.
Stratton
* Part II. Gender and Magic Discourse in Practice
*
* 6. Magic Accusations Against Women in Tacitus's Annals - Elizabeth
Ann Pollard
* 7. Drunken Hags with Amulets and Prostitutes with Erotic Spells: The
Re-Feminization of Magic in Late Antique Christian Homilies - Dayna
S. Kalleres
* 8. The Bishop, the Pope, and the Prophetess: Rival Ritual Experts in
Third-Century Cappadocia - Ayse Tuzlak
* 9. Living Images of the Divine: Female Theurgists in Late Antiquity -
Nicola Denzey Lewis
* 10. Sorceresses and Sorcerers in Early Christian Tours of Hell -
Kirsti Barrett Copeland
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* Part III. Gender, Magic, and the Material Record
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* 11. The Social Context of Women's Erotic Magic in Antiquity - David
Frankfurter
* 12. Cheating Women: Curse Tablets and Roman Wives - Pauline Ripat
* 13. Saffron, Spices, and Sorceresses: Magic Bowls and the Bavli -
Yaakov Elman
* 14. Victimology or: How to Deal With Untimely Death - Fritz Graf
* 15. A Gospel Amulet for Joannia (P.Oxy. VIII 1151) - AnneMarie
Luijendijk