Goddesses in context : on divine powers, roles, relationships and gender in Mesopotamian textual and visual sources / Julia M. Asher-Greve; Joan Goddnick Westenholz

Asher-Greve, Julia M. ; Goddnick Westenholz, Joan, -2013 ; Westenholz, Joan Goodnick *1943-2013*

Englisch, Deutsch

Fribourg : Academic Press ; Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013

XII, 454 S. : Ill., Kt.

Literaturverz. S. [301] - 355

978-3-7278-1738-0 Academic Press Fribourg

978-3-525-54382-5 Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

Introduction / Julia M. Asher-Greve and Joan Goodnick Westenholz

Map of MesopotamiaChronological tableGender theory and issues.On sexual differences and gender categories ;Changing gender, function, domain, rank/status of deities ;The discourse on the marginalization of goddesses / Julia M. Asher-Greve

Plethora of female deities.The processes: syncretism, fusion, fission, and mutation ;The first stage: profusion ;The second stage: recession ;The third stage : homogeneity and simplification ;General trends / Joan Goodnick Westenholz

Facets of change.The case of Ninḫursaĝa ;Mythological messages / Julia M. Asher-Greve

Images.Image and religion ;Visualizing deities ;Survey through time, space and place ;Statues / Julia M. Asher-Greve

Epilogue / Julia M. Asher-Greve and Joan Goodnick Westenholz.

*Mesopotamien / Göttin

*Mesopotamien / Göttin

*Assyro-Babylonian religion ; Sumerians -- Religion ; Akkadians -- Religion ; Goddesses ; Goddesses in art

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: BL1625.G6

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 299.21;

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 299.21

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This book examines from different perspectives some of the most challenging themes in Mesopotamian religion such as gender switch of deities and changes of the status, roles and functions of goddesses. The authors incorporate recent scholarship from various disciplines into their analysis of textual and visual sources, representations in diverse media, theological strategies, typologies, and the place of image in religion and cult over a span of three millennia. Different types of syncretism (fusion, fission, mutation) resulted in transformation and homogenization of goddesses' roles and functions. The processes of syncretism (a useful heuristic tool for studying the evolution of religions and the attendant political and social changes) and gender switch were facilitated by the fluidity of personality due to multiple or similar divine roles and functions

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