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Article: Her Share of the Blessings: Women's Religions Among Pagans, Jews, and Christians in the Greco-Roman World.
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- January 6, 1993
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ROSS KRAEMER of Franklin and Marshall College, known for her studies of ancient women's religions, anaore traditional cults in the Greco-Roman world. She relies on the anthropological model provided by Mary' Douglas for "the correlations between social experience, religious behavior, symbolic systems, and perceptions of the universe." The model has four sides: top and bottom range from "strong grid" with minimal autonomy to "weak grid" with maximal autonomy, while the two sides point to "weak group" and "strong group." Kraemer criticizes the models inability to deal with race, class and "the social divisions of labor by gender," though she notes that Douglas has ...