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Civilization, Western --- Civilisation --- Civilization --- Civilization, Western --- Historiography --- Public opinion, Western --- Middle Eastern influences. --- Middle Eastern influences --- To 1999 --- Middle East --- Middle East --- Middle East --- Middle East --- Moyen-Orient --- Moyen-Orient --- Moyen-Orient --- Moyen-Orient --- Middle East --- Foreign public opinion, Western --- Foreign public opinion, Western --- Foreign public opinion, Western --- Civilization --- Opinion publique occidentale --- Opinion publique occidentale --- Opinion publique occidentale --- Civilisation

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The recent years have seen an upswing in studies of women in the ancient Near East and related areas. This volume, which is the result of a Danish-Japanese collaboration, seeks to highlight women as actors within the sphere of the religious. In ancient Mesopotamia and other ancient civilizations, religious beliefs and practices permeated all aspects of society, and for this reason it is not possible to completely dissociate religion from politics, economy, or literature. Thus, the goal is to shift the perspective by highlighting the different ways in which the agency of women can be traced in the historical (and archaeological) record. This perspectival shift can be seen in studies of elite women, who actively contributed to (religious) gift-giving or participated in temple economies, or through showing the limits of elite women?s agency in relation to diplomatic marriages. Additionally, several contributions examine the roles of women as religious officials and the language, worship, or invocation of goddesses. This volume does not aim at completeness but seeks to highlight points for further research and new perspectives.

Religious studies --- Sociology of religion --- Women and religion --- Femmes et religion --- Prêtresses --- Déesses --- History

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The present volume collects eighteen essays exploring the history of ancient Near Eastern studies. Combining diverse approaches—synthetic and analytic, diachronic and transnational—this collection offers critical reflections on the who, why, and how of this cluster of fields. How have political contexts determined the conduct of research? How do academic agendas reflect larger social, economic, and cultural interests? How have schools of thought and intellectual traditions configured, and sometimes predetermined, the study of the ancient Near East? Contributions treating research during the Nazi and fascist periods examine the interpenetration of academic work with politics, while contributions dealing with specific national contexts disclose fresh perspectives on individual scholars as well as the conditions and institutions in which they worked. Particular attention is given to scholarship in countries such as Turkey, Portugal, Iran, China, and Spain, which have hitherto been marginal to historiographic accounts of ancient Near Eastern studies.

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