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This work seeks to examine how women in Rome were perceived both by themselves and by men through women's participation in Roman religion, as religious ritual provided the single public arena where women played a significant formal role. It argues that the ritual roles played out by women were vital in defining them sexually and that these sexually defined categories spilled over into other aspects of Roman culture, including political activity. In addition, it looks at the role of women in Roman society, from humble priestesses to aristocrats such as Agrippina and Livia. (Routledge)

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'Rome's Vestal Virgins 'examines Vestal Virgins' role in ancient Roman religion and society, including topics such as: the public rituals these priestesses performed in connection with official state rites and festivals, the private rites associated only with the Vestal order, the Vestals' own particular privileges and duties and the function of the order in both Roman history and the Romans' view of their own history. It argues that the Vestals were at the same time both members of the Roman virgins and non-members of Rome's family structure and that this was done to ensure that the Vestals could represent Rome as a whole on the religious level without any risk of pollution from a family cult. Wildfang contends that the rituals the Vestals performed on behalf of the Roman state were neither fertility rites nor reflections of traditional female activities. Instead they were rites concerned with purification, storage and the preparation of harvested grain for food use or sometimes a combination of all three areas at once. Finally, it explores how the Vestals' own attitude to their cult and the world around them changed as they and the society in which they lived were exposed to new and different cultures through the expansion of the Roman Empire.

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Goddesses and Women in the Indic Religious Tradition goes beyond the traditional sources that lie at the basis for determining the position of goddesses and women in India. Following the lead of a "hermeneutics of surprise" the book identifies, indeed, surprising new material - and conclusions; for example the analysis of Vedic Śrauta ritual. Or by offering surprising conclusions, when the location is obviously one involving women and goddesses, or anthropology discovers that the worship of the Great Goddess temporarily elevates the position of women. Other examples of the effectivity of the "hermeneutics of surprise" are seen when applied to the role of ḍākinīs , Śakti worship, the Marathi Sant tradition,and to Śaṅkara's commentaries.

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230*711 --- Feminism --- -Feminism --- -Feminist theology --- -Women --- -Women and religion --- -Religion and women --- Women in religion --- Religion --- Sexism in religion --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Theology, Feminist --- Theology, Doctrinal --- Emancipation of women --- Feminist movement --- Women --- Women's lib --- Women's liberation --- Women's liberation movement --- Women's movement --- Social movements --- Anti-feminism --- Feministische theologie --- Religious aspects --- -Christianity --- Religious life --- Emancipation --- -Feministische theologie --- 230*711 Feministische theologie --- -230*711 Feministische theologie --- Religion and women --- Feminist theology --- Women and religion --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Christianity --- Christian feminism

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Neo-Latin literature --- Vesta (Roman deity) --- Vestal virgins --- Women and religion --- Vesta (Divinité romaine) --- Vestales --- Femmes et religion --- Cult --- Culte --- Vestals. --- Lipsius, Justus --- Rome --- Religion. --- Lipsius, Justus, --- Academic collection --- Vesta (Divinité romaine) --- Vestal virgins. --- Religion and women --- Women in religion --- Religion --- Sexism in religion --- Vestals --- Cults --- literature [writings] --- Antique, the --- neo-Latin [language] --- Vesta (Roman deity) - Cult --- Women and religion - Rome --- literature [documents]