Cia Sautter's The Miriam Tradition: Teaching Embodied Torah PDF

By Cia Sautter

The Miriam Tradition works from the basis that non secular values shape in and during circulation, with ritual and dance constructing styles for enacting these values. Cia Sautter considers the case of Sephardic Jewish ladies who, following within the culture of Miriam the prophet, played dance and track for Jewish celebrations and distinctive events. She makes use of rabbinic and feminist understandings of the Torah to argue that those ladies, referred to as tanyaderas, "taught" Jewish values by way of prime applicable habit for significant existence events.

Sautter considers the non secular values which are in tune and dance played by means of tanyaderas and examines them at the side of written and visible documents and proof from dance and song traditions. Explaining the symbolic gestures and motions encoded in dances, Sautter exhibits how rituals demonstrate deeply held values which are top expressed in the course of the physique. The ebook argues that the actions of girls in different religions may additionally be tested for his or her embodiment and demonstrate of significant values, bringing forgotten teams of girls again into the old list as very important neighborhood leaders

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