| Description |
1 online resource |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Preface : why movement matters -- Women and sacred power -- Movement matters -- Miriam's dance -- Miriam at the wedding celebration -- The Rachel tradition : dancing death. |
| Summary |
The Miriam Tradition works from the premise that religious values form in and through movement, with ritual and dance developing patterns for enacting those values. Cia Sautter considers the case of Sephardic Jewish women who, following in the tradition of Miriam the prophet, performed dance and music for Jewish celebrations and special occasions. She uses rabbinic and feminist understandings of the Torah to argue that these women, called tanyaderas, "taught" Jewish values by leading appropriate behavior for major life events. |
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Sautter considers the religious values that are in music and dance performed by tanyaderas and examines them in conjunction with written and visual records and evidence from dance and music traditions. Explaining the symbolic gestures and motions encoded in dances, Sautter shows how rituals display deeply held values that are best expressed through the body. The book argues that the activities of women in other religions might also be examined for their embodiment and display of important values, bringing forgotten groups of women back into the historical record as important community leaders. --Book Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Miriam (Biblical figure)
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Miriam (Biblical figure) |
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Dance -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
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Dance -- Religious aspects -- Judaism. |
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Jewish women -- Religious life.
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Jewish women -- Religious life. |
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Women in Judaism.
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Women in Judaism. |
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Sephardim.
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Sephardim. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic resource.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: The Miriam tradition 9780252035777 (cloth : alk. paper) (DLC) 2010024454 |
| ISBN |
9780252090271 epub |
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0252090276 |
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9780252035777 cloth : alkaline paper |
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0252035771 cloth : alkaline paper |
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9780252077623 paperback : alkaline paper |
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0252077628 paperback : alkaline paper |
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1283017652 |
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9781283017657 |
| Standard No. |
9786613017659 |
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