Women of the sacred groves : divine priestesses of Okinawa /
Although most historical and contemporary religions are governed by men, there are, scattered throughout the world, a handful of well-documented religions led by women. Most of these are marginal, subordinate, or secondary religions in the societies in which they are located. The one known exception...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1999.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Prologue: Okinawan history, Henza Village, and methodology
- Part I. Divine dis-order ; One. Divine dis-order: On social planes ; Two. Divine dis-order: On cosmological planes
- Part II. Questions of gender ; Three. Gender in an egalitarian society ; Four. Gender separation and social integration ; Five. Women and men and ritual
- Part III. Sitting in the seat of the gods ; Six. Priestesses and ritual: Feeding the kami-sama ; Seven. Divine dis-order: Signs, symptoms, and sitting in the right seat ; Eight. Born to be kami-sama
- Part IV. Questions of power ; Nine. The problematics of power ; Ten. Priestesses, yuta, and ogami people
- Part V. Deconstructing gender ; Eleven. Un-gendering religious discourse ; Twelve. Gender bending (?) and ritual deconstruction
- Conclusion: Religion, power, and the sanctification of gender
- Appendixes
- 1. Glossary of Japanese and Okinawan words
- 2. Dramatic personae
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Plates follow page.
