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- Title
HE SAID SHE SAID: HEARING THE VOICES OF PNEUMATIC EARLY MODERN JEWISH WOMEN.
- Authors
Chajes, J. H.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the significance of spirit possession in the Jewish cultural contexts. As in most cultures, women predominated among the Jewish possessed by a margin of roughly 2:1. Judaism has not been regarded as a religion that featured a regularized possession cult bearing a positive valence. Being possessed would not ordinarily have been considered a good thing in Jewish societies. Early modern Judaism did promote forms of benign spirit possession, and they were highly prized among leading rabbis. Exorcism, in turn, seems to have been an effective means of reintegrating the victims into their communities while reinforcing traditional values.
- Subjects
SPIRIT possession; JEWISH women; JUDAISM; RABBIS; EXORCISM; RELIGIONS
- Publication
Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues, 2005, Issue 10, p99
- ISSN
0793-8934
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2979/NAS.2005.-.10.99