Ritual making women
Shaping Rites for Changing Lives
By Jan Berry
In the evolving landscape of women's spirituality, ritual emerges as a powerful tool for transformation and empowerment. Jan Berry explores how contemporary women are crafting meaningful ceremonial practices that challenge traditional boundaries and create new pathways for spiritual expression.
Drawing from extensive ethnographic research, this scholarly work reveals how women use storytelling and physical embodiment to construct rituals that serve their unique spiritual needs. Rather than viewing ritual as an ancient, unchanging practice, Berry demonstrates how these sacred acts become dynamic performances shaped by context, gender, and personal experience.
The book illuminates how women's ritual-making transcends conventional divisions between private devotion and public worship, creating spaces where personal transformation intersects with communal empowerment. Through detailed narrative accounts and case studies, readers discover how ordinary women become ritual creators, weaving together elements of story, movement, and sacred intention.
Berry's interdisciplinary approach combines insights from feminist theology, social anthropology, and gender studies to examine this grassroots spiritual movement. The work offers valuable perspectives for anyone interested in understanding how contemporary women are reshaping religious practice and creating new forms of sacred expression.
This exploration of women's ritual-making provides both academic rigor and practical insight into the creative forces driving modern spiritual innovation, making it essential reading for scholars and practitioners alike.
What You'll Discover
- ✓ Explore Gudstjänsten
- ✓ Explore Feministteologi
- ✓ Explore Religion
- ✓ Explore Women
- ✓ Explore Religiös verksamhet
- ✓ Explore Andlighet
- ✓ Explore Religiöses Leben
- ✓ Explore Übergangsritus
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Details
- Published
- 2014
- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN-13
- 9781315088655
- ISBN-10
- 1315088657
- Pages
- 257
- Language
- EN
- LC Classification
- BV178.B48 2009
