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WOMEN OF THE SACRED GROVES: DIVINE PRIESTESSES OF OKINAWA By Susan Sered
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- Book Title
- Women of the Sacred Groves: Divine Priestesses of Okinawa
- ISBN-10
- 0195124871
- Genre
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- ISBN
- 9780195124873
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0195124871
ISBN-13
9780195124873
eBay Product ID (ePID)
297256
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Publication Name
Women of the Sacred Groves : Divine Priestesses of Okinawa
Language
English
Subject
General, Eastern, Women's Studies
Publication Year
1999
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Religion, Social Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
17.6 Oz
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
98-017673
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"The value of this sensitive study rests in its close attention to gender-related issues....This is a valuable addition to the literature on this relatively understudied area of the world."--Religious Studies Review, "The value of this sensitive study rests in its close attention togender-related issues....This is a valuable addition to the literature on thisrelatively understudied area of the world."--Religious Studies Review
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
299/.56
Table Of Content
IntroductionPrologue: Okinawan History, Henza Village, and MethodologyPart I: Divine Dis-order1. Divine Dis-order: On Social Planes2. Divine Dis-order: On Cosmological PlanesPart II: Questions of Gender3. Gender in an Egalitarian Society4. Gender Separation and Social Integration5. Women and Men and RitualPart III: Sitting in the Seat of the Gods6. Priestesses and Ritual: Feeding the Kami-sama7. Divine Dis-order: Signs, Symptoms, and Sitting in the Right Seat8. Born to Be Kami-samaPart IV: Questions of Power9. The Problematics of Power10. Priestesses, Yuta, and Ogami PeoplePart V: Deconstructing Gender11. Un-gendering Religious Discourse12. Gender Bending(?) and Ritual DeconstructionConclusion: Religion, Power, and the Sanctification of GenderAppendixes:1. Glossary of Japanese and Okinawan Words2. Dramatis PersonaeNotesReferencesIndex
Synopsis
Okinawa is the only contemporary society in which women lead the official, mainstream, publicly funded religion. Priestesses are the acknowledged religious leaders within the home, clan, and village--and, until annexation by Japan approximately one hundred years ago, within the Ryukyuan Kingdom. This fieldwork-based study provides a gender-sensitive look at a remarkable religious tradition. Susan Sered spent a year living in Henza, an Okinawan fishing village, joining priestesses as they conducted rituals in the sacred groves located deep in the jungle-covered mountains surrounding the village. Her observations focus upon the meaning of being a priestess and the interplay between women's religious preeminence and other aspects of the society. Sered shows that the villages social ethos is characterized by easy-going interpersonal relations, an absence of firm rules and hierarchies, and a belief that the village and its inhabitants are naturally healthy. Particularly interesting is her discovery that gender is a minimal category here: villagers do not adapt any sort of ideology that proclaims that men and women are inherently different from one another. Villagers do explain that because farmland is scarce in Okinawa, men have been compelled to go to the dangerous ocean and to foreign countries to seek their livelihoods. Women, in contrast, have remained present in their healthy and pleasant village, working on their farms and engaging in constant rounds of intra- and interfamilial socializing. Priestesses, who do not exert power in the sense that religious leaders in many other societies do, can be seen as the epitome of presence. By praying and eating at myriad rituals, priestesses make immediate and tangible the benevolent presence of kami-sama (divinity). Through in-depth examination of this unique and little-studied society, Sered offers a glimpse of a religious paradigm radically different from the male-dominated religious ideologies found in many other cultures., 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 to this rule is the indigenous religion of Okinawa, where women lead the official mainstream religion of the society. In this fieldwork-based study, Susan Sered provides the first in-depth look at this unique religious tradition, exploring the intersection between religion and gender. In addition to providing important information on this remarkable and little-studied group, this book helps to overturn our mostly unexamined assumptions that male dominance of the religious sphere is universal, axiomatic, and necessary., 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 to this rule is the indigenous religion of Okinawa, where women lead the official, mainstream religion of the society. In this fieldwork-based study, Susan Sered provides the first in-depth look at this unique religious tradition, exploring the intersection between religion and gender. In addition to providing important information on this remarkable and little-studied group, this book helps to overturn our mostly unexamined assumptions that male dominance of the religious sphere is universal, axiomatic, and necessary., Okinawa is the only contemporary society in which women lead the official, mainstream, publicly funded religion. Priestesses are the acknowledged religious leaders within the home, clan, and village--and, until annexation by Japan approximately one hundred years ago, within the Ryukyuan Kingdom. This fieldwork-based study provides a gender-sensitive look at a remarkable religious tradition. Susan Sered spent a year living in Henza, an Okinawan fishing village, joining priestesses as they conducted rituals in the sacred groves located deep in the jungle-covered mountains surrounding the village. Her observations focus upon the meaning of being a priestess and the interplay between women's religious preeminence and other aspects of the society. Sered shows that the villages social ethos is characterized by easy-going interpersonal relations, an absence of firm rules and hierarchies, and a belief that the village and its inhabitants are naturally healthy. Particularly interesting is her discovery that gender is a minimal category here: villagers do not adapt any sort of ideology that proclaims that men and women are inherently different from one another. Villagers do explain that because farmland is scarce in Okinawa, men have been compelled to go to the dangerous ocean and to foreign countries to seek their livelihoods. Women, in contrast, have remained present in their healthy and pleasant village, working on their farms and engaging in constant rounds of intra- and interfamilial socializing. Priestesses, who do not exert power in the sense that religious leaders in many other societies do, can be seen as the epitome of presence . By praying and eating at myriad rituals, priestesses make immediate and tangible the benevolent presence of kami-sama (divinity). Through in-depth examination of this unique and little-studied society, Sered offers a glimpse of a religious paradigm radically different from the male-dominated religious ideologies found in many other cultures.
LC Classification Number
BL2215.O4S46 1999
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