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

• Julia M. Asher-Greve and Joan Goodnick Westenholz -- Introduction / Map of Mesopotamia -- Chronological table -- Gender 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.

• 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. 

Ämnesord

Babylonisk-assyrisk religion  (sao)

Gudinnor  (sao)

Gudinnor i konsten  (sao)

Assyro-Babylonian religion.  (LCSH)

Goddesses.  (LCSH)

Goddesses in art.  (LCSH)

Sumerians  -- Religion. (LCSH)

Akkadians  -- Religion. (LCSH)

Goddesses in art  (LCSH)

Assyro-Babylonian religion  (LCSH)

Goddesses  (LCSH)

Mesopotamien  -- historia (sao)

Klassifikation

BL1625.G6 (LCC)

299.21 (DDC)

Cmda (kssb/8 (machine generated))