Ritual Soundings: Women Performers and World Religions

by Sarah Weiss

Book Overview

The women of communities in Hindu India and Christian Orthodox Finland alike offer lamentations and mockery during wedding rituals. Catholic women of southern Italy perform tarantella on pilgrimages while Muslim Berger girls recite poetry at Moroccan weddings. Around the world, women actively claim agency through performance during such ritual events. These moments, though brief, allow them a rare freedom to move beyond culturally determined boundaries...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025208408X
• ISBN13: 9780252084089
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"